Skarlatos Receives Intel Rising Star Faculty Award for Data Center Innovations

Dimitrios Skarlatos, an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Science Department, has received a 2024 Intel Rising Star Faculty Award.

Presented annually, the $50,000 award recognizes early career faculty whose work has the potential to disrupt industries and facilitates long-term collaboration between academia and senior technical leaders at Intel. Award recipients also stand out for their innovative teaching methods and efforts to increase the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in computer science and engineering. 

Skarlatos’ work bridges hardware and operating systems and delves into the core challenges of data center computing, addressing fundamental questions about scalability limitations, security vulnerabilities and energy efficiency. His innovations in memory management and at the algorithmic, operating system and hardware levels have enabled more efficient data centers and have been deployed in production. In security, Skarlatos has uncovered vulnerabilities and designed comprehensive hardware and operating system mechanisms to reduce attacks. Several of his works have been adopted by Linux and Android.

His current research aims to pioneer the design of operating systems and hardware extensions to bridge the semantic gap in data-parallel hardware, such as GPUs. This approach shifts away from specialized runtimes and loosely integrated offload devices while ensuring robust security guarantees and maximized energy efficiency.

Skarlatos has received a Linux and eBPF Foundation Faculty Award, an NSF CAREER Award, multiple Meta Faculty Awards and numerous best paper awards from prestigious conferences.

Learn more about Intel Rising Star Faculty Awards on the program’s website.