Speaker
Prof.
Dimitris Drikakis
Description
High-Performance Computing: Regional Developments and Future Opportunities
Professor Dimitris Drikakis is the Founding Director of the Computation-based
Science and Technology Research Centre (CaSToRC) of The Cyprus Institute,
which is being developed in close partnership with the USA National Center for
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. He has also been Professor of Fluid Mechanics and
Computational Science and Head of Department at Cranfield University (UK) and
Professor of Fluid Mechanics at Queen Mary College, University of London, UK
(1999-2003). His expertise in computational science and engineering covers a
broad range of applications in the fields of fluid dynamics, materials and
heat transfer. In 2008, he was awarded the William Penney Fellowship by AWE
(United Kingdom) for his contributions to compressible fluid dynamics and
scientific computing.
Professor Drikakis has served on several international scientific committees;
is an associate editor of the ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, the Journal
of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, and The Aeronautical Journal; a
member of the Fluid Dynamics Committee of the American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA); and a Chairman of the International
Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing; a Fellow of the
Institute of Nanotechnology; and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
