Vourkas Ioannis

RANK:	Associate Professor
SECTOR:	Electronics and Information Technology Systems Sector
LABORATORY:	Electronics Laboratory
EXPERTISE:	Design of Electronic Circuits

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ADDRESS:	University Campus Kimmeria, Building B, Office 1.20
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SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

Embedded Systems Design

Microprocessors and Applications

Digital System Design

POSTGRADUATE COURSES

SHORT CV

Dr. Ioannis Vourkas was born in Kozani, Greece, in 1985. He received the M. Eng. (Diploma) and the Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Eng. (ECE) from the Democritus University of Thrace (DUTh), Greece, in 2008 and 2014, respectively. In 2015 joined the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC) as a postdoctoral researcher. Between 2017 – 2024 he was with the Dept. of Electronic Eng. of Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM) in Valparaíso, Chile, and had an associate researcher appointment with the AC3E Research Center of UTFSM. Currently he is Associate Professor with Tenure in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng. (ECE) of the Democritus University of Thrace (DUTh) in Greece. Also, in early 2019 he was visiting researcher in the Dept. of Electronic Eng. of Polytechnic University of Catalonia – (UPC) for 2 months. His current research focuses on ReRAM characterization, modeling, and simulation, and on novel circuits and architectures for ReRAM-centric computing. His research interests include unconventional and in-memory computing, as well as software and hardware aspects of parallel bio-inspired (neuromorphic) computational circuits and systems. He is the main author of one book, three book chapters, of more than 30 international journal articles and more than 55 papers included in peer-reviewed conference proceedings. His research has been funded by the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) and Synopsys R&D in Chile. Dr. Vourkas has been Tutorial speaker in IEEE ICECS 2015, IEEE LASCAS 2017, and in IEEE MOCAST 2019. He was invited speaker in 2017 Seiden Frontiers in Science Workshop in Haifa, Israel, in IEEE ChileCON 2017, and in the 11th and 12th IC Design Bootcamp of Synopsys R&D in Chile held in 2021 and 2023, respectively.. He has been with the Organizing Committees of ACRI 2012, the IEEE/ACM NanoArch 2018, the IEEE LASCAS 2022, the IEEE CNNA 2023 and the IEEE CAFE 2024.. He serves in the Editorial Board of IEEE Trans. on Nanotechnology (since 2021) and Elsevier Microelectronics Journal (since 2017). He has been a scholar of the Greek BODOSSAKI Foundation (2011 to 2014) and of the Santander Universities Program (2018/2019).