Efstratios Efstathiadis Ph.D.
- Technical Director, High Performance Computing Facility.
- Research Assistant Professor
Dr Efstratios Efstathiadis joined the Center of Health Informatics and Bioinformatics as the Technical Director of the High Performance Computing Facility that provides resources and expertise to serve the computational needs of the research community of the NYU Langone Medical Center.
Dr Efstathiadis obtained his PhD in Nuclear Physics in 1996 at City University of New York where he performed data analysis for relativistic heavy ion collision experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) looking for signatures of new states of nuclear matter. He participated in the research and development of particle detectors and designed Monte Carlo models to study nuclear collisions at ultra-relativistic energies (similar to those at CERN). Between 1996 and 1999 as a postdoctoral fellow at Boston University he developed methods to track particles, study the dynamics of particle beams in storage rings, calibrate detectors and studied properties of muons. He later joined BNL where as a technology architect he supported the High Performance Computing infrastructure on a a wide range of research (Climate modeling, Lattice QCD, Bioinformatics, fluid dynamics). He managed computational clusters and massive parallel supercomputers (QCDOC, NY Blue), participated in the NY State HPC Consortium and contributed in several Grid efforts.
