Christos Papadimitriou is the Donovan Family Professor of Computer Science at Columbia Engineering, and has held faculty positions at UC Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, UC San Diego, and the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece.

He has authored important textbooks like 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘖𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘈𝘭𝘨𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘮𝘴, and 𝘌𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, and numerous novels, including the graphic novel 𝘓𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘹, which explores the life and work of the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell.

His research is diverse and includes Computational Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computational Neuroscience, Economics and Game Theory, Generative AI and Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing, Theoretical Computer Science, Algorithms, and Complexity.

Christos Papadimitriou is a member of both the US National Academy of Sciences, the US National Academy of Engineering, the Academy of Athens, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He has received numerous awards for his scientific contributions, including the 2002 Knuth Prize, the 2012 Gödel prize, the 2015 EATCS award, the 2016 IEEE John von Neumann Medal, the Technion 2018 Harvey Prize, and the 2024 INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize.

In 2022, alongside Constantinos Daskalakis and Timos Sellis, he co-founded Archimedes: AI, Data Science, and Algorithms Research Hub, which operates as a research unit under Athena Research Center, Greece. Archimedes serves as “𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦, 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥.”

RESEARCH AREAS

Game Theory/ Optimization/ Multi-Agent Learning

Natural Language Processing

Machine Learning Foundations