Dr. Sotirios Ziavras is the Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Faculty at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He is also a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece and the D.Sc. in Computer Science from George Washington University (GWU). He was with the Center for Automation Research at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1988 to 1989. He was a visiting Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia in Spring 1990. He joined NJIT in Fall 1990 as an Assistant Professor. He has received several honors such as an award from the IKY Hellenic State Scholarships Foundation for his academic record at the NTUA, an industry-funded Distinguished assistantship at GWU, the NJIT Excellence in Teaching Award for Graduate Education, and the Richard E. Merwin fellowship at GWU. He has published about 200 papers, and did early work on chip multiprocessors embedded in FPGAs for data-intensive computing and power-grid applications. His main research interests are multicore processors, reconfigurable computing, hardware accelerators, parallel processing, wireless sensor networks and embedded computing.
