Theodoros Aslanidis

PhD student, School of Computer Science
University College Dublin

About

I am a PhD student in the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin, working with Dimitris Chatzopoulos on making cloud infrastructure less wasteful. My work runs along two threads: training deep reinforcement learning agents that place jobs across the cloud–edge continuum, and reducing the latency of large language model serving — currently through CPU-assisted execution and GPU virtualisation built on GVirtuS.

I am presently a visiting researcher at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, hosted by Richard Mortier and the Systems Research Group. Last year I spent four months with Sokol Kosta and his Edge Computing and Networking (ECN) group at Aalborg University Copenhagen — where the GVirtuS line of work started. Before all of that I did an Integrated Master in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Thessaly; my Diploma Thesis was supervised by Spyros Lalis.

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Research interests

Deep reinforcement learning
Cloud & edge computing
Resource allocation
ML for systems
Systems for ML

Publications

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Service

Shadow TPC · ACM IMC 2026.
Session chair · ALGOCLOUD@ALGO 2025.
Reviewer · IEEE Networking Letters and ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology.
Subreviewer · EWSN 2023, EuroMLSys@EuroSys 2023, IEEE GLOBECOM 2023, and IEEE ICDE 2024.

Talks

PhD research progress and outlook. Invited talk at the ECN group, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark. 11 April 2025. slides
End-to-end autonomic management of Cloud-Edge Continuum Systems using Reinforcement Learning: Design Approach and Formulation. ENHANCE@HiPEAC 2024, Munich, Germany. 19 January 2024. slides
Resource allocation in the cloud-edge continuum using reinforcement learning techniques. Invited talk at Qualcomm, Cork, Ireland. 20 October 2023.

Teaching

At UCD I have TA'd Cloud Computing I and Cloud Computing II, Object-Oriented Programming in Python, and Web Development. At the University of Thessaly I TA'd Machine Learning, Programming I and Programming II, Computer Organization & Design, and Numerical Analysis.

I am also co-supervising final-year projects: with Mark Doyle in 2024–25 on cloud-infrastructure simulation (which led to our C4 paper), and with Hiya Garg in 2025–26 on Kubernetes orchestration of AI workloads.

Contact

Email: theodoros.aslanidis@ucdconnect.ie
Office: UCD · Beech Hill, 2nd floor, room B2.01.
Visiting · William Gates Building, room FN07, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.
Elsewhere: GitHub · LinkedIn · X