About Me

Technology is my passion. I am always excited to amplify my knowledge in diverse subjects like science, biology, neurology, math and technical things. I chose to study Computer Science, at the University of Crete. In parallel with my Bachelor studies, I was also working as a Research Assistant in the Computer Architecture and VLSI Systems Laboratory. Currently I am pursuing my PhD in Pervasive Parallelism at the University of Edinburgh.

I am always excited to work on:
- Software-Hardware co-design
- Idea Cross-pollination: systems, databases, architecture, networking
- Intersection of Theory & Practice: revisit first principles to build next generation systems.

For my Ph.D. I rethink data replication in the modern datacenter. This involves designing systems and algorithms to resolve challenges in performance, consistency, load-balance, fault-tolerance and transactions. Mostly storage solutions in distributed environments which tend to include emerging networking (e.g., smart RDMA NICs) and/or specialized compute (e.g., FPGAs).

In my own time, I enjoy swimming, meditating, listening to audiobooks and music.
Contact details: me {at} antonis {dot} io

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Publications

Zeus: Locality-aware Distributed Transactions

Eurosys '21 -- To appear
A. Katsarakis, Y. Ma, Z. Tan, A. Bainbridge, M. Balkwill, Y. Zhang, A. Dragojevic, B. Grot, B. Radunovic

Odyssey: The Impact of Modern Hardware on Strongly-Consistent Replication Protocols

Eurosys '21 -- To appear
V. Gavrielatos, A. Katsarakis, V. Nagarajan

Hermes: A Fast, Fault-Tolerant and Linearizable Replication Protocol
[ pdf] [ dark pdf] [ site] [ bibtex] [ video] [ slides] [ poster] [ code] [ Q&A]

ASPLOS '20 -- IEEE Micro'20 Top Picks - Honorable Mention
A. Katsarakis, V. Gavrielatos, M. Katebzadeh, A. Joshi, A. Dragojevic, B. Grot, and V. Nagarajan

Kite: Efficient and Available Release Consistency for the Datacenter
[ pdf] [ dark pdf] [ bibtex] [ slides] [ code]

PPoPP '20 -- Best Paper Nominee
V. Gavrielatos, A. Katsarakis, V. Nagarajan, B. Grot, and A. Joshi

Scale-Out ccNUMA: Exploiting Skew with Strongly Consistent Caching
[ pdf] [ dark pdf] [ bibtex] [ video] [ slides] [ poster] [ code]

Eurosys '18
•A. Katsarakis*, V. Gavrielatos*, A. Joshi, N. Oswald, B. Grot, and V. Nagarajan
* Equal contribution to this work.

Patents

Reliable virtualized network function system for a cloud computing system

US Patent App. 16/282,183, 2020
B. Radunovic, M. Balkwill, A. Bainbridge, Y. Zhang, A. Katsarakis

Blog posts

Key-value-stores from the Lens of Shared Memory

ACM Sigarch Blog -- May 2020 Post
V. Nagarajan, B. Grot, A. Katsarakis and V. Gavrielatos

Education

PhD in Computer Science

Center for Doctoral Training in Pervasive Parallelism, University of Edinburgh
• Semptember 2017 - Present
- Advisor: Boris Grot
- Co-advisors: Vijay Nagarajan, Aleksandar Dragojevic
- Sponsored by Microsoft Research and EPSRC
Data Replication for the Modern Datacenter

MScR in Computer Science

Center for Doctoral Training in Pervasive Parallelism, University of Edinburgh
• Semptember 2016 - 2017 • Merit: with Distinction
- Advisor: Boris Grot
Symmetric Caching: Exploiting Skew for High-Performance Data Serving [ pdf]

BSc in Computer Science

Department of Computer Science, University of Crete
• Semptember 2012 - June 2016
- Grade: 9.16 / 10 (top 1%)
- Advisor: Angelos Bilas
A Multi-threaded Design for High-Performance Stock Exchange Trading Systems

Experience

Research Intern - Cloud Infrastructure

Microsoft Research (Cambridge)
• September 2020 - February 2021
- Mentor: Aleksandar Dragojevic
Hardware-software B+tree with consistent transactions via Mvcc.

Research Consultant - Systems and Networking

Microsoft Research (Cambridge)
• May 2019 - September 2020
Focused on Virtual Network Functions, transactions and their reliability.

Teaching Assistant / Demonstrator / Marker

University of Edinburgh (Informatics)
• September 2017 - December 2019
Courses: "Extreme Computing", "Introduction to Computer Systems", "Computer Architecture"

Research Intern - Systems and Networking

Microsoft Research (Cambridge)
• September - November 2018
- Mentor: Bozidar Radunovic
High performance Key-Value Store (KVS) over DPDK with fault-tolerance & strong consistency.

High-Performance stock trading system

Research Assistant at FORTH (ICS)
• January 2016 - July 2016
High-Performance multi-threaded stock trading system for Athens Stock Exchange.

Teaching Assistant: CS100

University of Crete (CS - Department)
• September 2015 - January 2016
Course: "Intoduction to Computer Science" (CS100). Essentials in programming and C.