Teachers

Leonel Sousa is Professor (“Professor Catedrático”) of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (DEEC) of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, in Portugal, and a Senior Researcher of INESC-ID, a non-profit research institute affiliated with IST. His research interests include:

High performance and parallel computing
Micro-architectures for general purpose and specialized processors
Multimedia systems

Member of the Management Committee and leader of the Working Group 1 of EU COST Action NESUS, member of HiPEAC/HiPEAC2 and HiPEAC Reconfigurable Computing Cluster. Fellow of the IET-FIET (2013), Distinguished Scientist of ACM (2015), Senior Member of IEEE (2004), and Member of IFIP WG10.3 on concurrent systems.

Quote of the year — “Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit”

Aleksandar Ilic is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DEEC) of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa and a Senior Researcher at the SIPS Group, INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal. His current reserach interests include:

High-performance and Energy-efficient Computing
Computer Architectures
general-purpose, parallel and heterogeneous multicores
Heterogenous Systems and Applications
load balancing, performance modeling, video coding

He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, in February 2014, under the supervision of Prof. Leonel Sousa.