People
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Georgios Papaioannou is a Professor of Computer Graphics at the Department of Informatics of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) and head of the AUEB computer graphics group. He is currently the director of the MSc program in Digital Methods for the Humanities, member of the UNESCO chair for digital methods for the humanities and social sciences and administrator of the computer systems and communications department sector. His research is focused on real-time computer graphics algorithms, photorealistic rendering, shape analysis and geometry processing. He received a 4-year BSc in Computer Science in 1996 and a PhD degree in Computer Graphics and Shape Analysis in 2001, both from the National and Kapodestrian University of Athens, Greece. Since 1997, he has worked as a research fellow in many research and development projects. From 2002 till 2007 he worked as a software engineer in virtual reality systems at the Foundation of the Hellenic World. Prof. Papaioannou has been teaching elementary and advanced computer graphics, programming and human-computer interaction courses since 2002 and he has been the principal investigator for AUEB in many EU and nationally funded projects as well as R&D collaborations with the industrial sector. Prof. Papaioannou has more than 90 publications in peer-reviewed international scientific journals, conference proceedings and volumes, with more than 2000 citations to his work. He is also a member of ACM, SIGGRAPH, Eurographics Association and has been a member of the program committees of many conferences in the above fields.
Personal web site: https://graphics.cs.aueb.gr/users/gepap
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Andreas - Alexandros Vasilakis is an Assistant Professor of Computer Graphics at the Department of Informatics of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) and a member of the AUEB Computer Graphics Group. His research focuses on photorealistic rendering, geometry processing and animation, web and neural rendering, and virtual & augmented reality. He received his B.Sc. in Computer Science (2006, valedictorian), and his M.Sc. (2008) and Ph.D. (2014) degrees from the University of Ioannina. His postgraduate research was supported by doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships. He was a postdoctoral researcher at CERTH (2016-2017) and worked as a senior graphics software engineer at Think Silicon (2017-2018). He is also co-founder and former CEO of Phasmatic (2022-2025), an R&D company specializing in photorealistic visualization with 3D & AI. Since 2020, Prof. Vasilakis has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses in computer graphics, HCI, virtual reality, and programming. He has participated in over 20 national and European R&D projects, has co-authored 35 scientific publications, and has served on the program committees of international conferences such as SIGGRAPH Asia, Eurographics, GRAPP, and CASA. He is a member of the Eurographics Association, ACM Greek SIGCHI, and Hellenic Informatics Association.
Personal web site: https://abasilak.github.io
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Anastasios Gkaravelis was born in Larissa, Greece in 1989. He received his 4-year B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Department of Informatics at the Athens University of Economics and Business and a Ph.D. in Computer Graphics in 2019 from the same department, under the supervision of Prof. Georgios Papaioannou. The subject of his doctoral thesis was "Efficient Algorithms for Inverse Lighting Design". His research interests are focused on computer graphics and, in particular, real-time and offline global illumination algorithms and photorealistic rendering. Dr. Gkaravelis is also a partner in the Phasmatic private company.
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Nikolaos Vitsas is a post-doctoral researcher at the department of Informatics of the Athens University of Economics and Business. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Department of Informatics at the Athens University of Economics and Business. Both his B.Sc. and M.Sc. thesis were on real-time global illumination techniques. He was awarded a Ph.D. in computer graphics in 2024 and the subject of his Ph.D. thesis was the photorealistic simulation and optimization of lighting conditions. During his M.Sc. studies he also worked as a research software engineer at the Athena Research and Innovation Centre in Athens, working on the European co-financed project GeoKnow. His research interests are focused on real-time and offline photorealistic rendering, lighting optimization and acceleration methods for computer graphics. He is also a partner in the Phasmatic private company.
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Iordanis Evangelou is a post-doctoral researcher at the department of Informatics of the Athens University of Economics and Business. He received a 4-year B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Department of Informatics at the Athens University of Economics and Business and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the same department. He was awarded a Ph.D. in computer graphics in 2024 and the subject of his Ph.D. thesis was the development of algorithms for the acceleration of geometric queries for computer graphics. His main field of research is high-performance photo-realistic rendering and machine learning methods for computer graphics.
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Vasileios-Ektor Kotsis-Panakakis is a post-graduate student attending the M.Sc. program in Computer Science at the Department of Informatics of the Athens University of Economics and Business. He received his B.Sc. from the same department in 2024. His graduate thesis was on the topic of hybrid rendering using rasterization and raytracing (Hybrid Soft-Shadow Generation using the Vulkan API) under the supervision of Prof. Papaioannou. His main research interests lie in the field of interactive and real-time rendering and in particular, rendering optimization via combination of multiple rendering techniques.
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Stefanos Costopoulos is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Informatics of the Athens University of Economics and Business, where he also completed his M.Sc. in Digital Methods for the Humanities. He received a B.A. in Sociology from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. His graduate thesis addressed methods for maintaining visual fidelity in geometrically simplified 3D reconstructions of cultural heritage under the supervision of Prof. Georgios Papaioannou. His research interests include computer graphics, digital reconstruction, and visualization techniques.
