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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, National Technical University of Athens

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, 1991 - present

Contact

[email protected]
+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

Gerassimos Barlas, Divisible Load Theory Optimization of Cubic Workloads : a case study on Matrix-Matrix Multiplication on Clusters of Heterogeneous Multicore and Many-core Platforms, Not Accepted, Journal of Parallel Computing, 2019
Khaled El-Fakih, Gerassimos Barlas, Mustafa Ali, Nina Yevtushenko, Parallel algorithms for reducing derivation time of distinguishing experiments for nondeterministic finite state machines, Published, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PARALLEL EMERGENT AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS, 33, 2, pp. 197-210, 2018
Emad Badawi, Khaled El-Fakih, Gerassimos Barlas, GPU and Multiprocessing Parallel Implementations for the Elimination of Finite State Machine Mutants, Published, 2018 IEEE 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE QUALITY, RELIABILITY AND SECURITY COMPANION (QRS-C), pp. 187-198, 2018
Abdul Haddad, Khaled El-Fakih, Gerassimos Barlas, Parallel Implementation for Deriving Preset Distinguishing Experiments of Nondeterministic Finite State Machines, Published, 2017 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MODELING, SIMULATION, AND APPLIED OPTIMIZATION (ICMSAO), 2017
Gerassimos Barlas, Khaled El-Fakih, A GA-based movie-on-demand platform using multiple distributed servers, Published, Multimedia Tools and Applications, 40, 3, pp. 361--383, 2008

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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