Paul G. Spirakis#
| Membership Number: | 2827 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2010 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GREECE |
| Homepage(s): | http://ru1.cti.gr/Paul_Spirakis |
Present and Previous Positions
- Full Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Patras University, Department Chairman 1987-1989, 1989- 1991 and 1991 - 1993, Dept. Vice-Chairman 1993-1995
- Director (since 1996) and senior researcher of the (Research and Academic) Computer Technology Institute Patras Greece
- Director of the distributed systems and telematics laboratory of Patras University, since 1996.
- 2005-2007 and 2007-2009 Director of Graduate Studies of the Dept. of Computer Science and Eng. Patras University, Greece
Fields of Scholarship
- Algorithms and complexity
- Distributed systems design, queuing theory
- Performance and algorithms for databases
- Performance analysis of computer systems
- Computer systems and networks
- Foundational issues of algorithmic game theory
- Telematics in education
Honours and Awards
- Elected unanimously as Member of the Board of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), July 1997
- Appointed Distinguished Visiting Scientist of Max Planck Informatik Germany, Fall 2001
- Appointed Member of ISTAG ( Information Society Technologies Advisory Group), a honorary group of 40 experts from Europe, aiming at designing future European Research in Information Technology, Jan. 03
- Acknowledged as one of the top 50 scientists worldwide in Computer Science with respect to "The best Nurturers in Computer Science Research", published by B. Kumar and Y.N. Srikant , SIAM Data Mining , 05
- Member of the ACM Europe Task Force, since Fall 2008. The ACM Europe task force is now the ACM Europe Council
