Dr. Leonidas Kosmidis is a Senior Researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and Faculty Member at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). He holds a PhD and MSc in Computer Architecture from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain, and a BSc in Computer Science from University of Crete, Greece. He is leading the research on embedded GPUs and accelerators for safety critical systems, both at hardware and system software level within the CAOS (Computer Architecture/Operating Systems) group at BSC.

Dr. Kosmidis is the recipient of the RISC-V Educator of the Year Award in 2019 from the RISC-V Foundation and an Honourable Mention for the EuroSyS Roger Needham PhD Award in 2018, which is awarded to the best PhD thesis in Europe in the area of Systems. He is the Principal Investigator of several projects funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) such as the GPU4S (GPU for Space) and the Horizon Europe METASAT project funded by the European Commission, as well as projects funded by industry such as the Airbus Defence and Space, which focus on the adoption of multicore and GPUs in space and avionics systems, including their certification. He is also participating in several standardisation efforts regarding GPU programming in safety critical systems within Khronos, in Vulkan SC and SYCL SC, as well as an external expert for the revision of the ECSS standards ECSS-E-ST-20-40 and ECSS-Q-ST-60-02C on ASIC, FPGA and IP Core developments. Currently, he serves as Co-Chair and Outreach Officer of the Khronos SYCL SC WG. Website: https://personals.ac.upc.edu/lkosmidi.