Christos Papadimitriou Becomes a Member of the Academy of Athens

Archimedes,Athena Research Center, Greece is excited to announce that Christos Papadimitriou's reception session at the Academy of Athens will take place on Thursday, May 29, 2025.

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 and the US National Academy of Engineering, 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 Godel 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.”