Mr Kostas Kavoussanakis

I am currently involved in the following projects and activities:

• EIDF: The Edinburgh International Data Facility (Data Scientific Computing Service Area Manager).
• The EPCC TRE: Trusted Research Environment (Service Area Manager).
• The Smart Data Foundry: Service Manager for the provision of their Safe Haven.
• SAFE: Service Administration from EPCC (Project Leader).
• Connect4: A Roadmap And Rich Metadata Catalogue For The Analysis Of Federated Sensitive Data (Project Leader).

In the past I have led (or led EPCC's involvement in) the following projects:

• NatWest Group/RBS: Project Leader in various projects since 2014.
• EIDF: The Edinburgh International Data Facility (Acting Service Director).
• RAMP: Rapid Assistance in Modelling the Pandemic and its Quantifying and explaining epidemiological model uncertainty extension.
• Data for Children Collborative: Delivery Support Board member.
• RiboViz: Understanding protein synthesis via analysis of ribosome profiling data.
• CodeOpt Scotland: work with Intel on Optos and Illuminate code optimisation.
• AAAI: National Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting Infrastructure pathfinder project.
• NeSS: Listening to the Future: Next Generation Sound Synthesis through Simulation.
• Fed4FIRE: Service testbeds for Future Internet Research and Experimentation.
• EUDAT2020: European data infrastructure (User Documentation and Training Material).
• EUDAT: European data infrastructure (User Documentation).
• Auditory: Using HPC to understand human hearing.
• ECO2Clouds: Experimental Awareness of CO2 in Federated Cloud Sourcing.
• BonFIRE: Testbeds for Internet of Services Experimentation.
• TEXTvre: Virtual Research Environment for textual studies
• eComploids: The Soft Matter Data Forum
• Synthesis: Music composition using simulation-based sound synthesis
• BEinGRID: Business Experiments in Grid
• EGEE-NPM: Network Performance Monitoring for the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project
• Oncology: Genome Scan To Identify Common Low Penetrance Alleles Contributing to Colorectal Cancer Aetiology
• EGEE-JRA4: Network Services Development activity for the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project
• PGPGrid: The Peppers Ghost Productions Grid Project
• 3D-Pathology: A real time system for quantitative diagnostic pathology and visualisation in 3D
• Autoscreen: automation of cervical cancer screening.
• GridWeaver: investigation of the problem of automating the configuration and management of Grid computing fabrics.
• Elektrobit: modelling of 3G mobile telephony networks.
• Seesaw: performance optimisation of sawmills through the use of visual inspection.
• ITBase: development of a tool for courseware maintenance.

Even longer ago, I worked as a developer on the following projects:

• Intersim: development of a tool for the simulation of differentiated services.
• Colombo: development of a tool for the programming and seamless parallel execution of CA models.

I graduated in 1994 from the University of Crete with a BSc in Mathematics. I then moved on to Edinburgh University and graduated in 1995 with an MSc in Computer Science, following the "Parallel Systems" course theme.

My first employment was at Heriot-Watt University, where I worked as a Research Associate in the then Department of Computing and Electrical Engineering. In September 1996 I enlisted in the Hellenic Navy for my compulsory, 21-month National Service.

In my free time I like watching football and I am also keen on gardening.