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Christos Kotselidis

The University of Manchester/Nimble Innovation

I am an Associate Professor (Reader) at The University of Manchester and a Chief Engineer at Nimble Innovation. I currently lead the TornadoVM project which bring native GPU acceleration of AI applications in Java. In addition, I am the technical coordinator of the Horizon Europe/UKRI AERO project and the PI of the EU Horizon Europe/UKRI P2CODE, TANGO, and ENCRYPT projects. My work focuses on both hardware and software. In particular, I am interested in embedded systems, micro-architecture, hw/sw co-designed CPUs and VMs, Heterogeneous Acceleration, Compilers, Virtual Machines and Garbage Collection.

Badges 7

Talks 2

  1. Voxxed Days CERN 2026

    TornadoVM: Supercharge your Java applications with GPU acceleration

    February 2026Java

  2. Devoxx Belgium 2025

    TornadoVM Deep Dive: Empowering Java Developers with GPU Acceleration

    October 2025Java