Sharjah

College / Department

College of Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Teaching areas

Design & analysis of algorithms, operating systems, multicore computing, Internet computing, GUI design & implementation

Research areas

Parallel algorithms, distributed VoD, high performance computing, biomedical signal compression

Education

PhD Computer Science, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1996

Professional experience

Professor, Depart. of Computer Science & Engineering, American University of Sharjah, Sept. 2011 - present
Associate Prof., Depart. of Computer Science & Engineering, American University of Sharjah, Sept. 2004 - Aug. 2011
Assistant Prof. Depart. of Computer Science,American University of Sharjah, Sept. 2001 - Aug. 2004
Visiting Assistant Prof., Depart. of Computer Science, University of Crete, Greece, Sept.2000 – Aug. 2001
Visiting Assistant Prof., Depart. of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, 1998-2000

Memberships

IEEE Computer Society Member

Contact

gbarlas@aus.edu
+971 6 515 2558

Dr. Gerassimos Barlas

Professor
PhD, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Gerassimos Barlas' research interests include parallel computation, high-performance computing, grid computing, multimedia systems, compression of biomedical signals and images, and medical informatics. Dr. Barlas is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society.

Publications

Sophia J. Skalidi, Efstathios Manios, Kimon Stamatelopoulos, Gerassimos Barlas, Fotios Michas,Savvas T. Toumanidis, Konstantinos Vemmos and Nikolaos Zakopoulos, “Brain Edema Formation Is Associated With The Time Rate Of Blood Pressure Variation In Acute Stroke Patients”, to appear in Blood Pressure Monitoring Journal.
Gerassimos Barlas, “Cluster-based Optimized Parallel Video Transcoding”, Parallel Computing, Elsevier, Vol. 38, No. 4–5, April–May 2012, pp. 226–244
Efstathios Manios, Kimon Stamatelopoulos, Georgios Tsivgoulis, Gerassimos Barlas, Eleni Koroboki, Georgios Tsagalis, Fotios Michas, Konstantinos Vemmos and Nikolaos Zakopoulos, “Time rate of blood pressure variation: a new factor associated with coronary atherosclerosis”, Journal of Hypertension 2011, Vol 29, No 6, pp. 1109-1114.
G. D. Barlas, “An Analytical Approach to Optimizing Parallel Image Registration”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems, Vol. 21, No. 8, August 2010, pp. 1074-1088
Kimon S. Stamatelopoulos, Efstathios Manios, Gerassimos Barlas, Eleni Koroboki, Achilleas Zacharoulis, Georgios Tsivgoulis, Georgios Kollias, Katerina Kyrkou, Nikos Tsigas, Christos M. Papamichael and Nikos A. Zakopoulos, “Time rate of blood pressure variation is superior to central hemodynamics as an associate of carotid intima–media thickness”, Journal of Hypertension 2010, Vol 28, No. 1, pp. 51-58
G. Barlas, “Optimizing Image Content-Based Query Applications Over High Latency Communication Media, Using Single and Multiple Port Communications”, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, Special Issue on "Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing: an Application Perspective", Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 221-237, 2010
G. Barlas, “Optimizing Image Content-Based Query Applications Over High Latency Communication Media, Using Single and Multiple Port Communications”, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, Special Issue on "Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing: an Application Perspective", Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 221-237, 2010
Efstathios Manios, Georgios Tsagalis, Georgios Tsivgoulis, Gerassimos Barlas, Eleni Koroboki, Fotios Michas, Eleftheria Alexaki, Konstantinos Vemmos and Nikolaos Zakopoulos, “Time rate of blood pressure variation is associated with impaired renal function in hypertensive patients”, Journal of Hypertension 2009, Vol. 27, pp 2244–2248
G. D. Barlas and Khaled El-Fakih, “A GA-Based Movie-on-Demand Platform Using Multiple Distributed Servers”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol 40, No. 3,Dec. 2008, pp. 361-383, Springer
N. Zakopoulos, G. Tsivgoulis, G. Barlas, et al., “Impact of the time rate of blood pressure variation on left ventricular mass”, Journal of Hypertension, Vol 24, No. 10, pp. 2071-2077, October 2006
Wong Han Min, Bharadwaj Veeravalli, G. Barlas, “Design and Performance Evaluation of Load Distribution Strategies for Multiple Divisible Loads on Heterogeneous Linear Daisy Chain Networks”, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computation, Vol. 65, No. 12, pp. 1558-1577, December 2005
G. D. Barlas, “VoD on Steroids : Optimized Content Delivery Using Distributed Video Servers Over Best-Effort Internet”, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computation, Vol. 65, No.9, pp.1057-1071, September 2005
N. Zakopoulos, G. Tsivgoulis, G. Barlas, et al., “Time Rate of Blood Pressure Variation Is Associated With Increased Common Carotid Artery Intima-Media Thickness”,Hypertension, pp. 505-512, 2005
G. D. Barlas, Bharadwaj Veeravalli, “Optimized Distributed Delivery Of Continuous-Media Documents Over Unreliable Communication Links”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 16, No. 10, October 2005

Conference Presentations

Gerassimos Barlas, Ahmed Hassan and Yasser Al Jundi, ?An analytical approach to the design of parallel block cipher encryption/decryption : A CPU/GPU case study?,Proc. of PDP 2011 Ayia Napa, Cyprus, Febr. 9-11 2011, pp. 247-251
G. Barlas,Bachir El-Koussa,Mohammad-Housein Afrasiabi, ?Using a GPU-CPU Hybrid Platform for Image Registration?, Proc. of 21st Int. Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Communication Systems (PDCCS 2008), New Orleans, USA, pp. 82-87
G. Barlas, ?Optimizing Image Content-Based Query Applications Over High Latency Communication Media?, Proc. of 15th Euromicro Conf. on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, PDIVM 2007, pp. 341-348
G. Barlas, ?A Taxonomy and DLT-based analysis of Cluster-based Video Trans/En-coding?, 14th Euromicro Conf. on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, PDIVM 2006, Montbeliard, France, 2006, pp. 388-395

Awards and Honors

“Media transcoding using unconventional computation”, funded by Emirates Foundation for AED 200k, 2009-2011
“GRIDification of HYGEIAnet Services”, funded by AUS, 2003-2004
“Construction and Evaluation of a Distributed Multimedia-Content Delivery System”, funded by AUS, 2002-2003

Other creative/research

Gerassimos Barlas, "Multicore and GPU Programming: An Integrated Approach", 1e, Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN-13 978-0124171374, 2014
Bharadwaj Veeravalli, G. D. Barlas, “Distributed Multimedia Retrieval Strategies for Large Scale Networked Systems”, Springer, ISBN 0-387-28873-2, 2006

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