Georgios Theodoropoulos is a Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at SUSTech(Southern University of Science and Technology), Shenzhen, China. He joined SUSTech from Durham University in the UK, where he was the Executive Director of the Institute of Advanced Research Computing and held a Chair in the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences.  

     Prior to that he was a Senior Research Scientist with the IBM Research where he  played a strategic role in the establishment of IBM’s Exascale Systems research roadmap  for Europe at the company’s Smart City Technology Center in Dublin.  He has held a honorary Chair at the  Trinity College Dublin and senior posts at  the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and the University of Birmingham, UK. As a Director of one of the UK’s National e-Science Centres, he made strategic contributions to UK’s e-infrastructures programmes for physical and social sciences and humanities. He is a Chartered Engineer and holds a PhD from the University of Manchester.