Athanasios Tsakalidis

Athanasios K. Tsakalidis (Greek: Αθανάσιος Κ. Τσακαλίδης; born 1950) is a Greek computer scientist, from Katerini in northern Greece. He is known for his contribution to the Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science and contributions to data structures, informatics, bioinformatics, Finger search trees, the Order-maintenance problem, and other computer science contributions.

Life

His first studies were in mathematics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1973. He went to study in Germany where he earned a second degree in Informatics at the University of Saarland, Germany in 1980. He earned his Master's (thesis: "Sorting Presorted Files") from this University, along with a PhD in informatics in 1983, with a thesis entitled "Some Results for the Dictionary Problem", which he completed under Professor Kurt Mehlhorn, director of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.[1]

Tsakalidis participated in research work for the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the German community of research) and professional teaching at the University of Saarland related to Data Structures, Graph Algorithms, Computational Geometry and programming, from 1983 t0 1983. Then he returned to Greece.[1]

In Greece, he was given the chance to successfully back-up his work by becoming a professor at the University of Patras, Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, where he is currently living and teaching.

Research

His research interests include: Data Structures, Graph Algorithms, Computational Geometry, GIS, Medical Informatics, Expert Systems, Databases, Multimedia, Information Retrieval, and Bioinformatics.

He has also participated in many EU research programs: ESPRIT, RACE, AIM, STRIDE, Basic Research Actions in ESPRIT, ESPRIT Special Actions, TELEMATICS Applications, ADAPT, HORIZON, ΕΠΕΤ ΙΙ, ΥΠΕΡ, ΤΕΝ – TELECOM, IST, LEONARDO DA VINCI, MARIE CURIE, SOCRATES.

He was also a visiting professor at King's College London (2003–2006).

He is one of the 48 writers of a computer science book, Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science, Vol 1 Elsevier Science publishers, co-published by MIT Press, his work being, along with professor Kurt Mehlhorn, in Chapter 6: Data Structures (his favourite field).

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Panagis, Yannis; Sakkopoulos, Evangelos; Garofalakis, John; Tsakalidis, Athanasios. "Optimization Mechanism for Web Search Results Using Topic Knowledge". Pennsylvania State University. Retrieved 6 May 2014.

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