Curriculum Vitae:

Born in Greece (1963). Study of Mathematics at the University of Patras, Greece (1980-1984). Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Patras, Greece (1991). Researcher with the Computer Technology Institute, Patras, Greece (1985-1991). Post-Doctoral Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Patras (1991-1992). Research Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA (1992-1994). Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA (1994-1995). Senior Researcher at the Computer Technology Institute,Patras (1995-1998). Since September 1998, Professor at the Department of Informatics of the Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Greece.

Referee for a number of journals and international conferences. Program and organising committee member of several international conferences and schools. Funded Research: National Science Foundation (NSF), Postdoctoral Fellowship (1992-1994); New England Consortium for Undergraduate Science Education (NECUSE) Grant (1993-1994); "Issues and Obstacles in the Implementation of Parallel Algorithms and the use of Parallel Machines", NSF Grant (1993); ESPRIT II Basic Research Action Program of the EC, Project ALCOM (1989-1993), Project ALCOM-IT (ALgorithms and COMplexity in Information Technology). (1995-1998), Project GEPPCOM (foundations of General Purpose Parallel COMputing) (1995-1997); STRIDE Research and Development, Project TEXTILE (1991-1994); ESPRIT I Research and Development Program of the EC, Project GRASPIN (1985-1988). Member of IEEE Computer Society, ACM and EATCS.

Main Research Interests:

• parallel computation
• design and analysis of algorithms
• network problems
• multimedia systems
• mobile computing