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
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Personal Information
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
| 1999 – | Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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:
- Established the Optical Computing Lab
- 1991 – 1999 Faculty member of the NSF Engineering and Research Center on Optoelectronic Computing Systems Center
Service:
- 1991 – 1999 Member of several University, College and Departmental Committees
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 |
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
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 |
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
- Μember 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