Dimitrios Skarlatos, a graduate of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) of the Technical University of Crete, was awarded the IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award 2025.
The IEEE Young Computer Architect Award is one of the most important annual global distinctions in the field of Computer Architecture. It is awarded each year by the Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA) of the IEEE Computer Society and recognizes outstanding research contributions by an individual in the field of computer architecture, who received his/her PhD degree within the last 6 years.
The IEEE Young Computer Architect Award 2025 was awarded to Dimitrios Skarlatos for his contributions to virtual memory management and system security. The Award was presented at the Awards Banquet at the 2025 International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), which this year was hosted in Tokyo, Japan. ISCA is the leading global scientific forum for the presentation of new ideas and experimental results in the field of computer architecture.
Dimitrios Skarlatos is one of the many graduates of the School of ECE, Technical University of Crete, who, upon completing their studies in Chania, received scholarships for doctoral studies at leading universities in North America (USA, Canada) and Europe and, after receiving their doctoral degree, were appointed as Professors at universities abroad. Specifically, Dimitrios, after graduating from the School of ECE, Technical University of Crete, moved for his postgraduate and doctoral studies to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he received his PhD degree in 2020. In 2021, he was appointed as Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, one of the world's leading universities in the field.
His research bridges computer architecture and operating systems focusing on performance, security, and scalability. His current work follows two central themes: (a) uncovering security vulnerabilities and building defenses at the boundary between hardware and OS and (b) re-designing abstractions and interfaces between the two layers to improve performance and scalability.
His work has been recognized internationally with many distinctions, including the NSF CAREER Award, the Intel Outstanding Researcher Award, the Linux Foundation Faculty Award, the Intel Rising Star Faculty Award, as well as successive awards from Amazon, AMD, Intel, Oracle, and Meta. His research has been awarded at leading international conferences on Computer Architecture and Operating Systems, while technologies he developed have been integrated into the Linux kernel and Android and are used in Meta's data centers.
