Educational Background
1991-1995，University of Manchester，U.K., PhD
1990-1991，University of Manchester，U.K., MPhil
1984-1989，University of Patras, Greece, Eng. Dipl
Professional Experience
2017-Now: Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
2013-2017: Chair Professor, School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, Durham University, U.K.
2013-2017: Executive Director, Institute of Advanced Research Computing, Durham University, U.K.
2012-2015 Full Professor (Adjunct), School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
2011-2013: Senior Research Scientist, IBM Research, Dublin, Ireland.
2008-2009: Senior Fellow, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
1998-2011: Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, U.K.
Honors & Awards
1. Member, Hong Kong Institute of Directors, 2025
2. Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2024
3. Accredited Director and Member, Singapore Institute of Directors, 2024
4. Member of “The China Association for The Club of Rome”, 2023
5. Fellow, British Computer Society, 2021
6. Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science, 2020
Research Interests
High Performance, Autonomous and Collaborative Computing Ecosystems, Complex Multi-Agent and Agentic-AI Systems, Digital Twins, Distributed Simulation Systems, Computational Sustainability
Publications
1. Zhuoyao Huang, Nan Zhang, Jingran Shen, Georgios Diamantopoulos, Zhengchang Hua, Nikos Tziritas, and Georgios Theodoropoulos. 2024. Distributed Simulation for Digital Twins of Large-Scale Real-World DiffServ-Based Networks. In Euro-Par 2024: Parallel Processing: 30th European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Madrid, Spain, August 26–30, 2024, Proceedings, Part III. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 255–269. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-69583-4_18
2. Georgios Diamantopoulos, Rami Bahsoon, Nikos Tziritas, Theodoropoulos Georgios, “Digital Twins for Dynamic Management of Blockchain Systems”, 2022 Winter Simulation Conference, Dec. 11-14, 2022, Singapore, doi: 10.1109/WSC57314.2022.10015447.
3. Nan Zhang, Rami Bahsoon, Nikos Tziritas, and Georgios Theodoropoulos. 2023. Knowledge Equivalence in Digital Twins of Intelligent Systems. ACM Transactions on Modelling and Computer Simulation, December 2023, doi: 10.1145/3635306
4. N. Zhang, R. Bahsoon and G. Theodoropoulos, "Towards Engineering Cognitive Digital Twins with Self-Awareness," 2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Toronto, ON, Canada, 2020, pp. 3891-3891, doi: 10.1109/SMC42975.2020.9283357.
5. Masatoshi Hanai, Toyotaro Suzumura, Wen Jun Tan, Elvis Liu, Theodoropoulos Georgios, Wentong Cai, “Distributed Edge Partitioning for Trillion edge Graphs”, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Vol 12, Volume 12, No. 13, September 2019, pp. 2379 - 2392 doi : 10.14778/3358701.3358706
