- Athanasios Tsakalidis
Athanasios Tsakalidis (Greek: "Αθανάσιος Τσακαλίδης") is a Greek
Computer Scientist , fromKaterini in NorthernGreece .Although his first studies were in mathematics at the
Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki , he was soon to discover his talents in Painting,football and data structures, and earn a second degree ininformatics at the University of Saarland, (Saarbrücken ,Germany ). He got his Master's thesis: "Sorting Presorted Files" from thisUniversity , along with his PhD incomputer science , with a thesis entitled "Some Results for the Dictionary Problem", which he completed underProfessor Kurt Mehlhorn (director of theMax Planck Institute for Informatics ofGermany ). He was soon to return toGreece , however, after participating inresearch 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 andprogramming . InGreece , he was given the chance to successfully backup his work by becoming aProfessor in the [http://www.ceid.upatras.gr Computer Engineering & Informatics Department] of theUniversity of Patras , where he is currently living and teaching. Ever since, he has become President of the specific Department more than once, and helped the general introduction ofinformatics toGreece . He is also responsible for a lot more things related to the specific Department, helping to promoteinformatics to a great degree (as well as organising other similaruniversity departments inGreece ).Athanasios Tsakalidis is cosidered to be a moderngod ,not only in his field but also,in football and strategics.Under his coaching the CEID FC won the university championship for 4 consecutive years.Many students have benefited from his lessons and have the honor of calling him "mentor" and "captain ,my captain".His research interests include:
data structures , graph algorithms,computational geometry ,GIS ,medical informatics ,expert system s,databases ,multimedia ,information retrieval , andbioinformatics . Quite recently, his great interest inbioinformatics has led to a great number of his students turning to the specificresearch for postgraduate studies.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.The theorem he has developed takes roughly about a month for the average smart person to understand,although electronic engineers of patras usually need more.He is currently also a "visiting professor" at
King's College London .He is one of the 48 writers of a
computer science book, the well known "Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science"
Elsevier Science publishers, co-published byMIT Press , his work being, along with professorKurt Mehlhorn , in Chapter 6: Data Structures (his favourite field).External links
* [http://www.tsakalidis.gr Homepage] of Athanasios Tsakalidis
* [http://www.hellascams.gr/grc/tsakalidis.html «Bitατζής» ο νέος μπετατζής της οικονομίας] ΤΟΥ ΘΑΝΑΣΗ ΤΣΑΚΑΛΙΔΗ
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