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Gershon Elber is a professor in the Computer Science Department, Technion, Israel. His research interests span computer aided geometric design and computer graphics. Prof. Elber received a BSc in computer engineering and an MSc in computer science from the Technion, Israel in 1986 and 1987, respectively, and a PhD in computer science from the University of Utah, USA, in 1992. Prof. Elber had several academic and Technion appointments, including the deputy vice president for computing, Technion, 2010-2013, and a member and head of the Solid Modeling Association (the parent organization of the solid and physical modeling, SPM, conferences), 2008-2010. He is now the head of the Technion Additive Manufacturing Center. Prof. Elber has served on the editorial board of the Computer Aided Design, Computer Graphics Forum, The Visual Computer, Graphical Models, and the International Journal of Computational Geometry & Applications and has served in many conferences' program committees including Solid Modeling, Shape Modeling, Geometric Modeling and Processing, Pacific Graphics, Computer Graphics International, and Siggraph. Prof. Elber was one of the paper chairs of Solid Modeling 2003 and Solid Modeling 2004, one of the conference chairs of Solid and Physical Modeling 2010, the chair of GDM 2014, the conference co-chair of SIAM GD/SPM 2015, and the conference co-chair of SPM 2018. He has published over 250 papers in international conferences and journals, received 15 best paper awards, presented a dozen keynote plenary talks, and is one of the authors of a book titled "Geometric Modeling with Splines - An Introduction". Prof. Elber received the John Gregory Memorial Award, 2011, in "Appreciation for Outstanding Contributions in Geometric Modeling", the Solid Modeling Association pioneers award in 2016, the Bezier award in 2019, and the Kunii award in 2024.
* Some of this work has been conducted in collaboration with many others including Myung-Soo Kim, SNU, Korea, Elaine Cohen, University of Utah, USA, Tom Grandine, Boeing, USA, Ralph Martin, Cardiff, Michael Barton and Yong Joon Kim, Technion.
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 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) is a major annual conference for researchers in natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. It has been organized by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group on Data (SIGDAT) since 1996 and is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.
On Friday 7 November, 2025, from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm, at the Archimedes Amphitheatre (1 Artemidos Street, 15125, Marousi, Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece), Mark Girolami, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering within the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he also holds the Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Data Centric Engineering, and Chief Scientist of the Alan Turing Institute, UK, will deliver an Archimedes Seminar on "Statistical Finite Element Methods."
On Tuesday 4 November, 2025, from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm, at the Archimedes Amphitheatre (1 Artemidos Street, 15125, Marousi, Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece), Professor Alexandra Meliou, Professor at the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, and a visiting researcher at the Archimedes Research Unit, Athena Research Center, Greece, will deliver an Archimedes talk on "Data Analysis and Manipulation through a Constrained Optimization Lens."
Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece is happy to see its work being featured at the 15th International Conference on Information Society and Technology (ICIST 2025), at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, through an invited keynote speech by Dr. Serafeim Moustakidis, titled: “Bringing Biomechanics into the AI Era: A New Frontier for Gait and Joint Health.”
On Tuesday 21 October, 2025, from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm, at the Archimedes Amphitheatre (1 Artemidos Street, 15125, Marousi, Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece), Professor Manos Athanassoulis, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Boston University (BU), USA, Director and Founder of the BU Data-intensive Systems and Computing Laboratory, BU, USA, and Co-Director of the BU Massive Data Algorithms and Systems Group, BU, USA, will deliver an Archimedes talk on "Harnessing the Untapped Benefits of Near-Sortedness for Data Systems."
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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