Information for prospective MSc/PhD students: The University of Crete graduate programs in Computer Science invite applications from exceptional candidates twice a year (deadlines March 31 and October 31).

Research

My research interests revolve around the following areas:

• Distributed computer systems
• Scalable data stream processing & event-based systems, Internet of Things (IoT)
• Quantum-enhanced computing systems
• Cloud computing, lifecycle management of multi-cloud applications
• Distributed service management

This is a partial list of projects I have participated in over the years:

• The GreenInCities project (2024-2027) funded by Horizon Europe aims for urban regeneration through participatory and sustainable greening solutions for all
• The STREAMSTORE project (2020-2023) funded by a H.F.R.I. faculty grant, improves the state of the art in elastic, scalable, and highly available stateful stream processing systems
• The Interconnected Smart Cities for Greece 2.0 (2023-2025) funded by national and EU agencies aims to develop a federated platform that interconnects IoT data silos across smart cities
• The SmartCityBus project (2020-2023) developed an IoT-driven intelligent public transportation platform
• The SocioCoast project (2021-2023) funded through Interreg V-A Greece-Cyprus contributes to better quality coasts via the use of crowdsourcing and big-data technologies
• The Proximiot project (2019-2023) developed a smart IoT-driven proximity marketing platform
• The ProxiTour project (2018-2022) developed a smart IoT-driven personalized touring platform
• The PaaSage European FP7 collaborative project (2012-2016) delivered an open and integrated platform to support model based lifecycle management of Cloud applications
• The ScaleWorks FP7 project (2009-2011) contributed to the improvement of the entire lifecycle of scalable distributed systems from design to engineering, prototyping, deployment, and operation, on contemporary cost-effective high-performance platforms
• The Galapagos project (2006-2009) at IBM Research contributed a model-based approach to distributed systems management with a focus on data and storage.
• Research on the structure and performance of the Direct Access File System at Harvard (2000-2004) received two best paper awards and helped shape industrial standardization efforts around direct-access (RDMA) interconnects

Teaching (full list)

• University of Crete HY-452 - Introduction to the Science and Technology of Services (Fall 2024)

• University of Crete HY-559 - Infrastructure Technologies for Large-Scale Service-Oriented Systems (Fall 2024)

• University of Crete HY-590.45 - Modern Topics in Scalable Storage Systems (Spring 2025)

Recent Publications (full list)

• Proportional Fairness and Isolation for Serverless Applications over FaaS Platforms
  George Kelantonakis, Fallia Kourou and Kostas Magoutis
  In Proceedings of the 16th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE'25), May 5-9, Toronto, Canada (pdf)

• Model Predictive Control of Internet Servers using Quantum Annealing
  Efthymios Papageorgiou, George T. Stamatiou and Kostas Magoutis
  In Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS'24), September 16-20, 2024, Aarhus, Denmark (pdf)

• Amoeba: Aligning Stream Processing Operators with Externally-Managed State
  Antonis Papaioannou and Kostas Magoutis
  in Proceedings of 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2021), December 6-9, 2021, Leicester, UK (pdf)

• Decision-Making Approaches for Performance QoS in Distributed Storage Systems: A Survey
  Flora Karniavoura and Kostas Magoutis
  in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Volume 30, Issue 8, pp. 1906-1919, August 2019 (pdf)

• Incremental elasticity for NoSQL data stores
  Antonis Papaioannou and Kostas Magoutis
  in 36th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2017), Hong Kong, China, September 26-29, 2017 (pdf)

• ACaZoo: A Distributed Key-Value Store based on Replicated LSM-Trees Awarded Best Student Paper
  Panagiotis Garefalakis, Panagiotis Papadopoulos and Kostas Magoutis
  in 33rd IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2014), Nara, Japan, October 6-9, 2014 (pdf).

• CEC: Continuous Eventual Checkpointing for Data Stream Processing Operators
  Zoe Sebepou and Kostas Magoutis
  In Proceedings of 41st IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2011), Hong Kong, China, June 27-30, 2011 (pdf).

I have also authored a number of patents.

Students and Alumni

I consider myself fortunate to collaborate or have collaborated with the following outstanding students

• Stratos Ntallaris, MSc (2022), PhD candidate
• Nikos Papadakis, MSc (2022), PhD candidate
• Efthimios Papageorgiou, BSc (2023), MSc candidate
• Petros Tsalikis, MSc candidate
• Alexandros Angourakis, MSc (2025)
• Herodotos Apostolou, BSc (2023)
• Giorgos Vasarmidis, BSc (2025)
• Giorgos Kelantonakis, BSc (2021), MSc (2023)
• Stefanos Kalogerakis, MSc (2023)
• Fallia Kourou, MSc (2023)
• Dimitris Kourgiantakis, BSc (2023)
• Kostas Agapidis, BSc (2022)
• Antonis Papaioannou, PhD (2021)
• Margianna Bofili-Arvaniti, MSc (2021)
• Giorgos Amiridis, BSc (2021)
• Aris Chronarakis, MSc (2019)
• Konstantinos Nakas, BSc (2019)
• Panagiotis Goutis, BSc (2019)
• Theopisti Kokoviadou, BSc (2019)
• Ilias Haldeakis, BSc (2019)
• Sotiris Lemousias, BSc (2019)
• Michalis Sotiriou, MSc (2019)
• Dimitris Valekardas, MSc (2018)
• Giorgos Mitaros, BSc (2018)
• Nikos Zois, BSc (2018)
• Thomas Dimos, BSc (2018)
• Eudoxos Bekas, MSc (2017)
• Eirini Micheli, PhD work (2015-2017)
• Orfeas-Ioannis Zafeiris, BSc (2017)
• Polydoros Argyrokastritis, BSc (2017)
• Giorgos Gremis, BSc (2017)
• Nikolaos Patikas, BSc (2016)

Recent service (full list)

• 25th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2025) (TPC), November 12-15, 2025, Washington DC, USA.

• 19th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems (DEBS 2025) (TPC), June 10-13, 2025, Gothenburg, Sweden.

• IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2024) (TPC), December 15-18, 2024, Washington DC, USA.

• EAI International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (VALUETOOLS'23) (TPC), September 6-7, 2023, Crete, Greece.

• IEEE International Conference on Quantum Software (QSW 2024) (TPC), 2024, Shenzhen, China.

• IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2023) (TPC), December 15-18, 2023, Sorrento, Italy.

• 29th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2023) (Heavy TPC), October 23-26, 2023, Koblenz, Germany.

• IEEE International Conference on Quantum Software (QSW 2023) (TPC), July 2-8, 2023, Chicago, IL, USA.

• IEEE International Conference on Quantum Software (QSW 2022) (TPC), July 11-16 2022, Barecelona, Spain.

• 2nd Workshop on Quantum Software Architecture (QSA, co-located with ICSA 2022) (TPC), March 12, 2022, Hawaii, USA.

• 25th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2021) (TPC), December 13-15, 2021, Strasburg, France.

• 40th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2021) (TPC), September 20-23, 2021, Chicago, USA.

• ACM SIGOPS European Chapter (EuroSys), Secretary (Elected 2021 for 2022-23 term; Re-elected 2023 for 2024-25 term)

• 21st IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS 2021) (TPC), June 14-18, 2021, Valletta, Malta

• 39th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2020) (TPC), September 21-24, 2020, Shanghai, China.

• 15th ACM SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2020) (General co-Chair), April 27-30, 2020, Heraklion, Greece.

Distinctions and Awards

• Best Paper Award, USENIX Annual Technical Conference (2002)

• Best Paper Award, USENIX BSDCon Conference (2002)

• Best Student Paper Award, 33rd IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2014)

• Best Paper Runner-up Award, 14th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2024)

• Grand Challenge Audience Award, 16th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems (DEBS 2022)

• Best Poster Award, 17th ACM SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2022)

• EU Marie Curie Intra European (IEF) Fellow (2009-2011)

• Three IBM Invention Plateaus for patent activities (2003-2008)

• IBM Research Division Technical Group Award for Outstanding Contributions (2006, 2008)

• USENIX Association Scholar (Sole recipient among 50 submissions worldwide) (2002-2003)

• Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation Fellow (1994-95)

• J. William Fulbright Scholar (1993-94)

About

I am a Professor with the Computer Science Department, University of Crete and collaborating researcher with FORTH-ICS in Heraklion, Greece. Previously I was an Associate Professor with the Computer Science Department, University of Crete (2020-2024), an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina (2014-2019, tenured 2017), a Research Staff Member with the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY (2003-2009) and taught at Columbia University, NY (2004). Before that I was a graduate student in computer science at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University where I received my Ph.D. in 2003.

I can be contacted via email (use my last name) at csd.uoc.gr (professional) or gmail.com (personal).

My postal mail address:

Kostas Magoutis
Room E-306
Computer Science Department
University of Crete
Heraklion GR-70013
Greece.