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Christos H. Papadimitriou is the Donovan Family Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. Before joining Columbia in 2017 he taught at Berkeley for 22 years, and before that at Harvard, MIT, Athens Polytechnic, Stanford, and UCSD. He has written four widely used textbooks, and hundreds of articles on algorithms and complexity, and their applications to optimization, databases, control, AI and robotics, economics and game theory, the Internet, evolution, and the brain; his work has been cited over 80,000 times. He was the founding Senior Scientist of the Simons Institute on the Theory of Computing. He holds a PhD from Princeton and nine honorary doctorates, including from ETH, EPFL, and the Universities of Athens and Paris, while in 2014 the President of the Hellenic Republic named him commander of the Order of the Phoenix. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the US, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering, and has received the Knuth prize, the Gödel prize, the von Neumann medal, and Technion’s Harvey award. He has also written three novels: “Turing,” “Logicomix” (with Apostolos Doxiadis) and “Independence.”
To position Greece as a leading player in AI and Data Science
To build an AI Excellence Hub in Greece where the international research community can connect, groundbreaking ideas can thrive, and the next generation of scientists emerges, shaping a brighter future for Greece and the world
Welcome to ARCHIMEDES, a vibrant research hub connecting the global AI and Data Science research community fostering groundbreaking research in Greece and beyond. Its dedicated core team, comprising lead researchers, affiliated researchers, Post-Docs, PhDs and interns, is committed to advancing basic and applied research in Artificial Intelligence and its supporting disciplines, including Algorithms, Statistics, Learning Theory, and Game Theory organized around 6 core research areas. By collaborating with Greek and Foreign Universities and Research Institutes, ARCHIMEDES disseminates its research findings fostering knowledge exchange and providing enriching opportunities for students. Leveraging AI to address real-world challenges, ARCHIMEDES promotes innovation within the Greek ecosystem and extends its societal impact. Established in January 2022, as a research unit of the Athena Research Center with support from the Committee Greece 2021, ARCHIMEDES is funded for its first four years by the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF).
ARCHIMEDES is thrilled to announce its latest opportunity for collaboration, offering scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students, and opening for researchers. This initiative aims to provide comprehensive training in artificial intelligence, data science, and algorithms, under the guidance of our esteemed researchers here at ARCHIMEDES.
ARCHIMEDES Unit of the Athena Research Center, along with representatives of the Center, welcomed the Club of Economic and Commercial Diplomats in Greece (ECDC). ECDC is an important tool of economic diplomacy in which 60 Trade & Economic Counselors of foreign embassies participate. The meeting was co-organized by Entreprise Greece, the official national body for attracting foreign investments and promoting exports abroad, supervised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Two ARCHIMEDES Lead Researchers Prof. Ion Androutsopoulos, Professor at the Department of Informatics at the Athens University of Economics and Business, and Prof. Stefanos Zafeiriou, Professor of Machine Learning and Computer Vision at Imperial College London, are featured in the February issue of the Newspaper of the Athens University of Economics and Business (OPA news), which was published in Vima newspaper on Sunday, February 25, 2024.
ARCHIMEDES is pleased to announce its official membership in the newly founded CHAI Hub. This international consortium brings together universities, private companies, government entities, and regulatory authorities to collaboratively develop AI solutions alleviating pressure on healthcare systems. Led by Professor Sotirios Tsaftaris of the University of Edinburgh and Archimedes Lead Researcher, the initiative has received substantial funding—£12 million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)—to pioneer advancements in AI for healthcare.
ARCHIMEDES ran a summer program with visiting researchers and seminars/talks in June and July 2023. This served as an opportunity for the new ARCHIMEDES PhD fellows to introduce themselves to our researchers and vice versa the ARCHIMEDES researchers had an opportunity to introduce themselves to each other as well as to the visitors, colleagues from other ATHENA institutes etc. More than 45 junior and senior researchers participated in the program, which included ARCHIMEDES researchers’ and visiting researchers’ presentations workshops on Life Sciences, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing and Responsible Artificial Intelligence. You can follow the above links to browse through the various presentations given.
The project “ARCHIMEDES Unit: Research in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Algorithms” with code OPS 5154714 is implemented by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan “Greece 2.0” and is funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.
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