IOANNIS C. DEMETRIOU
Degree in Mathematics, M.Phil. Computer Science, Ph.D. from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge; he has studied as a grantee of the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece. Member of Pembroke College Cambridge.
Professor of Mathematics and Informatics, Department of Economics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; he headed this department, where he developed IT laboratories, organized programmes of studies, improved infrastructure, supported the development of teaching and research staff and established new faculty premises. Founder and Director of the MSc course in Business Administration, Analytics and Information Systems.
He has an extended repertoire of undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level courses in applied mathematics, information systems, computing, operational research and management science, data analytics and machine learning. He has taught computer graphics and human computer interaction at the Athens University of Economics and Business, and at Lavern University Athens; and also taught quantitative methods at the MBA of Hellenic Open University.
In his research, he develops theory and algorithms for numerical approximation and optimization calculations accompanied by software development for general use, which focus on data smoothing by sign changes in the divided differences and its applications to science, engineering, medicine and economics. He has identified procedures that solve routinely some challenging combinatorial optimization problems. He has published over 100 research papers in scientific journals, conference proceedings and volumes. He has developed Fortran software packages that are accessible to the public through the scientific library systems of the ACM Transactions on Mathematics Software and Computer Physics Communications. As a program developer, he worked on the IBM 3082 and CDC Cyber mainframes, the Sun SPARC Unix workstation, the Tesla K20 GPU processor, and on most desktop-like computers.
University evaluator, member of scientific and organizing committees of international conferences. Member of the editorial board of the journal “SN Operations Research Forum”, Springer Nature.
Honours received include the J.T. Knight Price 1983 of University of Cambridge and awards for some of his research papers, the most recent ones being the best paper awards of the 2018 Conference on Bioinformatics (IMECS, Hong-Kong), and 2018, 2021 Conference on Computational Statistics and Data Engineering (WCE, London).
October 2021