Nikos Pagonas

CS PhD Student @ Columbia University

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Columbia University

500 W 120th St

New York, NY 10027

Hi! I am Nikos, a PhD student in Computer Science at Columbia University, where I am a member of 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.

Currently, I am working on AI systems: improving scheduling for agentic workflows, accelerating application-agnostic LLM serving, and providing efficient simulation support for agentic rollouts.

In the past, I have worked on improving shell scripting performance: accelerating shell scripts by automatically scaling them out to serverless infrastructure, and providing fault tolerance for distributed shell script execution.

news

Aug, 2025 Cortex made it into SAA 2025!
Aug, 2025 I was awarded the A.G. Leventis Foundation Scholarship!
Jun, 2025 I was awarded the Gerondelis Foundation Scholarship!
May, 2025 I joined Google as a Student Researcher!
Sep, 2024 I was awarded the Columbia Presidential Fellowship!
Sep, 2024 I started my PhD in Computer Science at Columbia University!
Jun, 2024 I received my Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NTUA!
Sep, 2023 I joined Brown CS as a Student Researcher!
May, 2023 I started working on the PaSh project!