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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 8 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).
🌟 The Archimedes Community of the Athena Research Center, Greece, would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a holiday season filled with happiness, gratitude, and good health. ✨
Vassilis Alimisis, a Postdoc at the Archimedes Unit of the Athena Research Center in Greece, a Collaborating Researcher at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens in Greece, an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Digital Industry Technologies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece, and a National Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Bodossaki Foundation, Athens, Greece, will deliver a tutorial at the 2025 International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM), which will take place on 14-17 December 2025, in Cairo, Egypt.
The Preliminary Phase "Talos" of the Greek Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (PDTN) is now open for online participation. This competition for middle and high school students will run from December 1, 2025 until March 1, 2026, and students will be asked to solve four problems: one on Decision Trees (Δεντρα Αποφασης), one on CAPTCHA Challenges (Επίλυση CAPTCHA), one for Emotion Classification (Συναισθηματα), and one on Movie Recommendation Systems (Επόμενη Ταινία).
Mark Girolami, the Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, UK, and Chief Scientist of The Alan Turing Institute in London, UK, delivered a seminar at the Archimedes Amphitheatre on Friday, 7 November 2025.
On Tuesday 25 November, 2025, from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm, at the Archimedes Amphitheatre (1 Artemidos Street, 15125, Marousi, Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece), Professor Yuriy Brun, Professor at the Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, and Visiting Researcher at Archimedes Research Unit, Athena Research Center, Greece, will deliver an Archimedes talk on "LLMs and Mistrust, Discrimination, and Bugs in Software."
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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