Nikolaos Papandreou

Nikolaos Papandreou received his Diploma (5-year program) and Ph.D. degree, both in Electrical and Computer Engineering, from the University of Patras, Greece, in 1998 and 2004 respectively. He joined IBM Research - Zurich in July 2008, where he is currently a Senior Research Scientist.

His research interests and activities include reliability of NAND flash memory, development of NAND flash controller technologies, machine learning and acceleration of inference algorithms. Previously, he has worked extensively on the development of multi-level phase change memory technologies.

Before joining IBM, he was Research Associate (2005-2008) at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, where he worked in various projects in the areas of digital communications and embedded systems. Between 2006 and 2008, he also served as an Adjunct Faculty Member at the Dept. of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras.

Nikolaos was named IBM Master Inventor in 2022. He holds over 120 patents (granted and pending applications) in the areas of solid-state memory, NAND flash controller, and AI systems, and he has co-authored more than 70 journal and conference publications. He is a regular reviewer for scientific journals and conferences and he has served as a TPC member for numerous IEEE conferences. Since 2020 he is a member of the IEEE IRPS technical committee on System Electronics Reliability.