Antonis Psistakis

Antonis Psistakis

PhD Candidate

I’m currently in the job market, seeking industry positions. If your team is hiring PhD graduates, please feel free to reach out.

About me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science (formerly the Department of Computer Science) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). I am also a member of the i-acoma research group, advised by Prof. Josep Torrellas.

My research focuses on fault-tolerant, high-performance data center systems that leverage Compute Express Link (CXL) for shared-memory and disaggregated architectures. I am broadly interested in Computer Architecture, Distributed Systems, and High-Performance Computing, with work spanning consistency and persistency models, as well as RDMA-based communication to enable efficient data transfers, distributed transactions, and recovery mechanisms.

I earned both my B.Sc. (2017) and M.Sc. (2019) in Computer Science from the University of Crete (UOC), and I’m originally from Heraklion, Crete, Greece.

Latest news

  • [Oct 2025] Invited talk at OCP 2025.
  • [Jul 2025] Paper accepted at SOSP 2025.
  • [May 2025] Selected as one of two winners of the Kenichi Miura Award, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, UIUC.
  • [May 2025] Selected as one of the Mavis Future Faculty Fellows (MF3) for the 2025-2026 academic year.
  • [May 2025] Joined Microsoft’s Systems Planning & Architecture (SPARC), within Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure (AHSI) organization as a Graduate Research Intern.
  • [Mar 2025] Paper accepted at HotOS 2025.
  • [Feb 2025] Paper accepted at PaPoC 2025 (Lightning Talk).
  • [May 2024] Joined Microsoft’s Azure Research-Systems group as a Graduate Research Intern.
  • [Mar 2024] Paper accepted at ISCA 2024.
  • [Oct 2023] Paper accepted at HPCA 2024.
  • [Aug 2023] Paper accepted at SysDW 2023 Workshop (SOSP).
  • [Feb 2023] Invited talk at Intel.
  • [May 2022] Joined NVIDIA as a Graduate Intern.
  • [May 2022] Paper accepted at TPDS 2022.
  • [Jan 2022] “Distributed Data Persistency” (MICRO 2021) was accepted as IEEE Top Picks in Computer Architecture 2022.
  • [Jul 2021] “Distributed Data Persistency” (DDP) was accepted at MICRO 2021.
  • [Aug 2020] Joined the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, UIUC, and the i-acoma group as a PhD student.
  • [Jul 2020] “PART: Pinning Avoidance in RDMA Technologies” was accepted at NOCS 2020.