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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).
Archimedes Academic Fellow and a third-year PhD student at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece, Andreas Lolos recently travelled to Tucson in Arizona, USA, and presented the paper "SGPMIL: Sparse Gaussian Process Multiple Instance Learning" at the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2026).
The Archimedes research unit of the Athena Research Center in Greece has six papers accepted at this year's International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) gathering, including one oral presentation. The acceptance rate for posters was about 25,8% and about 1,1% for oral presentations. Please bear in mind that ICLR, along with NeurIPS and ICML, is considered one of the three top-tier artificial intelligence and machine learning conferences in the world.
Georgios Papasotiropoulos, a former intern of the Archimedes unit of the Athena Research Center, Greece, received the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society's (EETN) Best Doctoral Thesis Award for the year 2025. His doctoral thesis was on "Algorithmic and Game-Theoretic Aspects of Computational Social Choice" and his supervisor was Vangelis Markakis, a Professor at the Department of Informatics of the Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB), Greece and a Lead Researcher at the Archimedes research unit in AI, Data Sciences, and Algorithms of the Athena Research Center in Athens, Greece.
On Monday 16 February, 2026, from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm, at the Archimedes Amphitheatre (1 Artemidos Street, 15125, Marousi, Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece), Professor Nikos Paragios, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, University of Paris-Saclay, France, and Chief Executive and Technical Officer, TheraPanacea, Paris, France, will deliver an Archimedes Seminar on "Seeing the Invisible - Doing the Impossible: AI-powered diagnosis, treatment and beyond".
On Wednesday, 11 February 2026, the Ambassador of Australia to Greece, Mrs. Alison Duncan, visited the Archimedes Research Unit at the Athena Research Center in Greece and had a very productive meeting with Professor Timos Sellis, Director of the Archimedes Research Unit.
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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