2004-2008: Ph.D. at School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece (November 2008).
PhD thesis: "Design and effective implementation of the Java virtual machine for multimedia applications"
Area: Computer Hardware
Advisor : Kiamal Pekmestzi

1999-2004: Diploma of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece (July 2004), Grade: 8.18/10 .
Diploma thesis: "Implementation of a Java Processor"

2008 - 2009: Greek Army Service

2005 - 2008: "Design and utilization of a Java Coprocessor for complex embedded multimedia applications", (PENED 2003, National Research Project)

2005 - 2006: MicroSoC, a SoC platform for research and education (ASIC design flow)

9/2004 - 1/2005: Specification for a Fleet Management System (ELKEDE)

• Isidoros Sideris, Kiamal Pekmestzi, George Economakos, "Extending an embedded RISC microprocessor for efficient translation based Java execution", Microprocessors and Microsystems, Elsevier, 33(7-8):415-429, 2009. [details]

• Isidoros Sideris, Kiamal Pekmestzi, George Economakos, "A Predecoding Technique for ILP Exploitation in Java Processors", Journal of Systems Architecture, Elsevier, 54(7):707-728, 2008, [details]

• Nikos Anastasiadis, Isidoros Sideris, Kiamal Pekmestzi, "A fast multiplier-less edge detection accelerator for FPGAs", to appear in Proceedings of 25th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Embedded Systems track, SAC 2010, Sierre, Switzerland, March 2010.

• Isidoros Sideris, Nikos Moshopoulos, Kiamal Pekmestzi, "A Hardware Peripheral for Java Bytecodes Translation Acceleration", to appear in Proceedings of 25th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Embedded Systems track, SAC 2010, Sierre, Switzerland, March 2010.

• Sotiris Xydis, Isidoros Sideris, George Economakos, Kiamal Pekmestzi, "A Flexible Architecture for DSP Applications Combining High Performance Arithmetic with Small Scale Configurability", Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2008 (EUSIPCO 2008).

• Kiamal Pekmestzi, Nicholas Axelos, Isidoros Sideris, Nicolaos Moshopoulos, "A BISR Architecture for Embedded Memories", IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, Rhodes, Greece, July 2008. [Details]

• Isidoros Sideris, Kiamal Pekmestzi, George Economakos, "An Instruction Set Extension for Java Bytecodes Translation Acceleration", IC-SAMOS 08, July 2008. [Details]

• Dimitris Bekiaris, Isidoros Sideris, George Economakos, Kiamal Pekmestzi, "Power Efficient and Low Latency implementation of Programmable FIR Filters using Carry-Save Arithmetic", December 2007. (ICECS 2007)

• Isidoros Sideris, Dimitris Pilitsos, George Economakos, Kiamal Pekmestzi, "Building Embedded DSP Applications in a Java Modeling Framework", Poznan, Poland, September 2007 (EUSIPCO 2007).

• George Economakos, Kostas Anagnostopoulos, Isidoros Sideris, "A Methodology for Design Space Exploration in Embedded DSP Applications", December 2006. (ICECS '06)

• Isidoros Sideris, George Economakos, Kiamal Pekmestzi, "A Cache based Stack Folding Technique for High Performance Java Processors", October 2006. (JTRES '06) [Details]

• P. Bougas, A. Tsirikos, K. Anagnostopoulos, I. Sideris, K. Pekmestzi, "Segmentation based Design of Serial Parallel Multipliers", May 2006. (ISCAS 2006)

• Isidoros Sideris, Kostas Anagnostopoulos, Paraskevas Kalivas , Kiamal Pekmestzi, "Novel Systolic Schemes for Serial Parallel Multiplication", June 05. (EUSIPCO 05)

2006: Supervisor of a diploma thesis with subject "Design of a Superscalar RISC processor" in conjunction with Prof. Kiamal Pekmestzi

2005-2008: Help and support in many diploma theses at Microprocessors and Digital Systems Lab

2004-2008: Teaching assistant in the undergraduate courses "Microprocessor systems", "Microprocessor systems laboratory", "Introduction to the design of VLSI systems", "Digital VLSI Systems"