Georgios Liargkovas will be pursuing a PhD in OS scheduling and cloud computing, with a focus on distributed and serverless architectures, at Columbia University, advised by Prof. Kostis Kaffes. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering and Data Science from the Department of Management Science and Technology at Athens University of Economics and Business. Since 2020, he has been a research assistant at BALab, advised by Prof. Diomidis Spinellis, concentrating on empirical software engineering and mining software repositories studies. He is also an affiliate researcher at Brown University’s Atlas Systems Group, engaged in advancing shell-script parallelization, advised by Prof. Nikos Vasilakis. His research interests include system design and optimization, particularly through the application of machine learning techniques. Outside academia, he is passionate about long-distance running, cycling, and music.