Pericles A. Mitkas
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
54124 Thessaloniki - GREECE
Tel.: +30-2310-99-6390
FAX: +30-2310-99-6447
Email: mitkas (at) eng (dot) auth (dot) gr
Born in 1962 in Florina, Greece.
Married to Sophia Mardiri.
Two children: Alexander-Akilas and Danae-Zoe.
Education
1990
| Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
Dissertation Title: “On Relational Database Operations Implemented in Optics”
Advisor: Professor P. Bruce Berra |
| 1987 | M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. |
| 1985 | Diploma of Electrical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
Academic Experience
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Teaching
Data Structures (5th semester now, previously 7th)
Database Management Systems (9th semester)
Software Engineering (8th semester)
Databases and Knowledge Discovery (Graduate course)
Software Design and Development (Graduate course)
Advanced Topics in Database Systems (Graduate course)
Research:
2002 - Associate Director of the Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI) at the Center for Engineering Research and Technology - Hellas (CERTH)
2001 - Faculty member of the Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI - CERTH)
2001 - Established the Intelligent Systems and Software Engineering Labgroup
Service:
2001 - 2005 Associate Department Head
2001 - 2002 Chair of the Curriculum Committee
2003 - 2004 Member of the Undergraduate Curriculum Revision Committee
2001 - 2005 Chair of the Telematics Committee
Colorado State University
1996 - 1999
| Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
On sabbatical leave during 1996-97 |
1990 - 1996
| Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Taught the following Computer Engineering and Optoelectronics Engineering courses:
EE101 Engineering Computing (Pascal & Fortran or Pascal & C)
EE102 Digital Circuit Logic (Reorganized the labs and wrote a lab manual)
EE457 Optical Information Processing (Introduced some experiments)
EE554 Computer Architecture
EE557 Digital Optical Computing
EE580 Database Computers
Research:
Service:
Vrije University of Brussels, Belgium
1996 - 1997
| Visiting Researcher
Department of Applied Physics
Performed research in optical computing systems |
Syracuse University
1989 - 1990
| Teaching Assistant
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Partly responsible of the teaching of graduate level courses |
1986 - 1988
| Research Assistant
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Studied problems associated with Very Large Data/Knowledge Bases |
Honors and Awards
| 2001 | Marquis Who's Who in America, 55th Ed. |
| 2000 - 2001 | Marquis Who's Who in America Science and Engineering, 5th Ed. |
| 1998 - 1999 | Strathmore's Who's Who |
| 1995 | Engineering Dean's Council Award |
| 1992 | Outstanding Faculty Counselor for an IEEE Student Branch, IEEE - Region V |
| 9/88 - 5/89 | University Fellow, Syracuse University |
| 9/85 - 5/88 | Fellow, Bodossaki Foundation, Greece |
| 1981 - 1985 | Scholarship, Public Scholaship Foundation, Greece |
| 1980 - 1985 | Scholarship, Athenian Club, Greece |
Research Interests
Parallel Computer Architectures for Very Large Data and Knowledge Bases
Software Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Mutli-Agent Systems for Environmental Management
Parallel Searching Techniques for Large Biological Databases
Professional Societies
Senior Member of IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society
Member of the Optical Society of America (OSA)
Member of the Society for Photooptical Instrumentation Engineering (SPIE)
Member of the SPIE Working Groups on Optical Processing & Computing and on Holography
Member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece
Funded Research Programs
A list of funded research programs Prof. Mitkas has participated can be found here.
Consulting
1998
| 1998 PBB Systems, Inc., Canastota NY
Dynamic Data Mining using an Electro-optical Data Warehouse |
Research Students
3
PhD Theses and 11 M.Sc. Theses, Colorado State University (1991 - 2000)
7
PhD Theses and 6 M.Sc. Theses completed, 5
PhD's in progress, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2001 - )
Invited Lectures and Seminars
16 Invited Lectures and Seminars in Greece, Belgium, The Netherlands, Maxico and U.S.A.
12 invited conference papers
6 tutorials in international conferences
Patents
I. N. Athanasiadis and P. A. Mitkas, “A System for Sensor Interconnection and Provision of Processed Information through the Semantic Diffusion of Knowledge”, Greek Patent Office 2005, #1004936
Publications
Co-author of the book “Agent Intelligence through Data Mining”, Springer, July, 2005
More than 200 publications in journals and scientific conferences
11 book chapters
Organizing committee chair for 6 conferences
Proceedings editor for 5 conferences
Guest Editor of the IEEE Computer Magazine (January 1998 issue)
Guest Editor of the IEEE Intelligent Systems (May/June 2009 issue)
Professor Mitkas' publications since 2002, can be found in ISSEL's publication page. You may also check out Professor Mitkas' publications before 2002.