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Andreas Diavastos, PhD

Lab Director: Andreas Diavastos is a currently a Lecturer (Tenure-track) in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Informatics at the Cyprus University of Technology, leading the Computer Architecture Research Lab (CARL). He first joined the department in August 2024. He received his BSc and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cyprus in 2010 and 2018 respectively. During his PhD, he received the Graduate School Scholarship in 2015 and the EuroLab4HPC Collaboration Grant in 2017. During his studies he worked on several national and European projects (EU FP7 and HORIZON) and he was lucky enough to have worked with several researchers from both the academia and the industry such as the University of Manchester, in the UK, the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, RECORE Systems in Netherlands and the Cyprus Institute in Nicosia. After his PhD, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and then joined the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona as a Distinguished researcher. In 2023, he worked as a Visiting Lecturer for the University of Cyprus and an Adjunct Faculty Member for the University of Nicosia. His research work has been published in several scientific conferences and journals (i.e. ASPLOS, ACM/IEEE DAC, ISPASS, ACM TACO, DATE, IEEE TCAD, ACM TOCS).

Undergraduate Students

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    Yuriy I. Konyk

    Yuriy is currenly a C++ Software Engineer at Cognyte. For his BSc thesis he developed a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) System for Cyprus University of Technology Courses. The system implements a virtual tutor that aims to enhance students’ learning experience by providing context-sensitive and accurate information retrieval from course materials.