Georgios Liargkovas

About me

I hold a Bachelor’s Degree from the Department of Management Science and Technology of Athens University of Economics and Business. I am also a research associate at BALab, where I conduct research related to software engineering and programming languages, advised by Prof. Diomidis Spinellis.

I am also a research affiliate at the Atlas Systems Group at the Computer Science Department of Brown Univerisy, working on the PaSh project, a shell-script parallelization project hosted by the Linux Foundation, under the supervision of Prof. Nikos Vasilakis. We developed hs, an out-of-order shell script executor, that automatically executes scripts in parallel without any user involvement. We also developed try, a lightweight command-line sandbox tool which lets users inspect the results of a command before committing the result. I continue to actively work on PaSh, hs, and try.

My research interests lie in the broader area of computer systems. I am deeply fascinated by the design and implementation of self-optimizing systems, crafted to adapt to dynamic performance needs such as throughput, responsiveness, and scalability. Key to this is the blend of system abstractions which mitigate design-related overheads and dynamic adaptation made possible by innovative system monitoring, scheduling and load-balancing methods. Additionally, I am interested in leveraging program analysis techniques to drive software-level enhancements for these systems, embracing approaches like adaptive compilation and runtime script optimization and statistical methods for optimization.

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