Dr. Costas Argyrides

Work Experience

Research experience:
- January 2009 to Date. Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Bristol: working on an RPF funded project in the area of reliability of manycore chips with title “System Validation via Intelligent Collaboration for Reliable Next-Generation Manycore Chips “.
- February 2008 to August 2008. Research Fellow at the University of Warwick: working on a collaborative EPSRC project between the University of Warwick and the University of Cambridge in the field of SOI Gas Sensors with title “Nano-structured micro-power smart gas sensors”.
- February 2008 to August 2008. Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge: working on a collaborative DTI project between the University of Warwick and the University of Cambridge in the field of Gas Sensors with title “Ultra Low-Power Micro-Hotplate Smart Gas-Sensor”
- January 2006 to March 2006 Visiting Researcher at Georgia Tech (USA): Working with a group of students performing research on low power designs under the supervision of Prof. Mooney.

Students supervision:
- January 2009 to Date. Dimosthenous Georgios Title: A CAD tool for Synthesis and analysis of logic in nano-scale crossbars Architectures. Mark 73%.
- January 2007 to September 2007. Marinos Lemoniatis. Title Novel techniques for minimization of MODDs, Mark 68%.

Teaching experience:
- January 2009 to June 2009 Teaching Assistant: “Fault Tolerant Computer Design (COMSM30125)”, University of Bristol, offering tutorials, assessing assignments and marking tests for 12 students.
- October 2005 to January 2008 Teaching Assistant: “Introduction to Computer Architecture (COMS M1302)”, University of Bristol, offering tutorials, assessing assignments and marking tests for more than 20 students.
- January 2006 to June 2007 Teaching Assistant: “Fault Tolerant Computer Design (COMSM30125)”, University of Bristol, offering tutorials, assessing assignments and marking tests for more than 20 students.
- September 2001 to June 2003 Lab Assistant: “Programming technology”, MPEI (TU), Lab supervision, tutorials and marking of assignments and exams. More than 30 students in each lab session.

Non-academic work experience:
- March 2008 to June 2008 Promotional and Public Relations Manager “The River”. Promoting a Mediterranean restaurant and bar, organizing various parties and events and ensuring customers’ satisfaction.
- September 2007 to December 2007 Promotional and Public Relations Manager: Promoting a newly opened Greek bar – restaurant – club, organizing various parties and events and ensuring customers’ satisfaction.
- January 2005 to May 2005 Production of a short animation: “Alice’s Wonderland”, University of Bristol, working within a group of four master students to create a 60secs animated movie from scratch as a part of a course. We had to create a story, models and then animate it. All parts of the work were divided into four; I was also acting as a group leader and responsible to fulfill time requirements.
- October 2004 to September 2005 Course Representative, Member of Teaching Committee: Selected to represent my fellow students during my master’s degree in the meetings with the course director and in the meetings with the teaching committee in the Computer science department.
- June 2003 to September 2004 Design and Implementation of Websites and Software: Meeting people from different companies (i.e. a hair dressing saloon, a law firm, a dog breeding agency, a hotel, etc) and designing and developing their company’s website or database system.
- June 2002 to August 2002 A/C Installation and repairs, Christos Christou LTD: Working together with an engineer installing A/C units and repairing faulty ones.
- June 2001 to August 2001 Security Systems Salesman: Working within a small company installing and selling different security equipment. Talking to people in an attempt to promote the company and pragmatically aiming to convince them to buy the company’s products.