About me

My name is Mr John Stavrakakis and I am a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. Currently, I am the primary researcher and developer of the project Lumino.

Office phone: TBA

Email: jstavrakakis AT vislab.usyd.edu.au

Research Work

My previous experience includes:

• Using Chromium as the parallel rendering back-end for remote rendering.
• Developing and assessing an OpenGL virtual machine that tranparently utilises available grid resources. This was my honours thesis work entitled "A Dynamically Scalable Distributed Rendering System".

My primary workcan be found here

• nccg

Publications

• John Stavrakakis, Nick Lowe, and Masahiro Takatsuka. An On ­Demand Streaming Protocol for 3D Graphics. APAC '05.
• John Stavrakakis, Zhen-Jock Lau, Nick Lowe, Masahiro Takatsuka. Exposing Application Graphics to a Dynamic Heterogeneous Network. WSCG'2006.
• J. Stavrakakis and M. Takatsuka. Shared geometry-based collaborative exploratory visualization environment. In Workshop on Combining Visualisation and Interaction to Facilitate Scientific Exploration and Discovery, British HCI, London, pages 82–90, 2006.
• J. Stavrakakis and M. Takatsuka. Out-of-order execution for avoiding head-of-line blocking in remote 3d graphics. In IEEE Pacific Rim Symposium on Image Video and Technology 2007, December 2007.

Interests

• I have keen a interest in computer graphics, networking and Grid technologies and high performance computing. I also design alternative solutions to these classical problems.
• I enjoy the serene calm of gardening under the blazing hot sun in Australia
• video game programming and playing (aka Lord Mule)

• If I come across something interesting I might add it to /Really Random Thoughts

• Latest addiction: Aniseed bread which is only sold on Tuesdays at Hellenic Bakery, 371 Illawarra Road, Marrickville. Tel: 9559 2701. Open daily, 5.30am-7pm.

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