Nikos Pagonas

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.

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.