Kyriacos N. Neocleous

Bio

Kyriacos Neocleous was born in Nicosia, Cyprus. He obtained his M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Cyprus.

Between March 2004 and November 2007, Kyriacos was employed by the High Performance Computing systems Lab (HPCL, now known as Laboratory for Internet Computing). He served as EGEE project country representative for Grid Computing Operations, CY-01-KIMON cluster primary administrator and security officer, and CyGrid Certification Authority (CyGridCA) manager.

Kyriacos has worked in TSYS International as a full-time employee between January 2008 and September 2011. During this time he was primarily involved with 3-D Secure protocol (secure payment) e-Commerce banking systems, with a focus on Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode implementations.

Current Activities

• Part of e-Bioscience group at the Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam (SCI-BUS project).

M.Sc. thesis

• Failure Analysis, Prediction, and Management on the EGEE Grid Infrastructure, Master Dissertation, University of Cyprus, Nov 05 – Jul 07.

Publications

• K. Neocleous, M. D. Dikaiakos, P. Fragopoulou and E. Markatos, "Grid Reliability: A Study of Failures on the EGEE Infrastructure." Proceedings of the CoreGRID Integration Workshop 2006. S. Gorlatch, M. Bubak and T. Prior (editors). Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET AGH, pages 61-68. October 2006. ISBN 83-915141-6-1.

• D. Zeinalipour-Yazti, K. Neocleous, C. Georgiou, M. D. Dikaiakos, "Monitoring and Ranking of Grid Failures using FailRank" (poster). EGEE '06 Conference, Geneva, September 26, 2006.

• D. Zeinalipour-Yazti, K. Neocleous, C. Georgiou and M. D. Dikaiakos, "Managing Failures in a Grid System using FailRank." University of Cyprus Technical Report TR-06-4, Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, September 2006.

• K. Neocleous, M. D. Dikaiakos, P. Fragopoulou and E. Markatos, "Failure Management in Grids: The Case of the EGEE Infrastructure." CoreGRID Technical Report TR0055. Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, and Institute of Computer Science, Foundation of Research and Technology–Hellas, July 2006.

• Marco Danelutto (author, editor), Paraskevi Fragopoulou (editor), Vladimir Getov (editor), “Making Grids Work (2008).” Contributing author. Springer publishing. ISBN-13: 978-0387784472.