Nikos Pagonas

Hi! I am Nikos, a PhD student in Computer Science at Columbia University, where I am a member of the Nebula Lab and DAPLab, advised by Prof. Kostis Kaffes.

Before that, I was in the ATLAS research group at Brown CS, where I worked on PaSh, a Linux Foundation project, advised by Prof. Nikos Vasilakis.

I received my Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, where I was advised by Prof. Georgios Goumas.

My research interests are in systems for machine learning, cloud computing, and distributed systems. Currently, I am working on:

• Providing systems support for emerging LLM agent applications
• Accelerating shell scripts by automatically scaling them out to serverless infrastructure
• Providing fault tolerance for distributed shell script execution

In my free time, I hunt down concerts that convey a mix of proficiency and humanity, and test the patience of fellow concert-goers by air-drumming.