Professor

High Performance Information Systems Laboratory

Software Division

Department of Computer Engineering & Informatics

School of Engineering
University of Patras

Research Interests

• Scientific computing, parallel and distributed processing
• Linear Algebra and its applications
• Computational Science and Engineering
• Problem Solving Environments
• Data Mining
  

Teaching

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Biographical sketch
Professor at the Computer Engineering & Informatics Dept. (CEID). He served as Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program "Mathematics of Computing and Decision Making" (2008-2010) and Software Division Director (1998-2007). Between Nov. 2010-June 2011 he held the position of invited professor and taught at the University of Rennes I (France), and at the University of Padova, Italy. He was also visiting faculty and consultant at the Computer Science Department of Purdue University and INRIA Rennes Bretagne-Atlantique. Prior appointments include research staff and faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1986-96); assistant professor at the University of California Santa Barbara  (1985-86); visiting researcher at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (summer 1982 & 1983).  He participated as Senior Computer Scientist in research and development of the Cedar vector multiprocessor at the University of Illinois Center for Supercomputing Research and Development (1987-94); participated in the software development of the Goodyear Aerospace Massively Parallel Processor (MPP) (1980-85) receiving a NASA group achievement award  (For outstanding initiative and creativity in the development, demonstration, and practical application of the first Massively Parallel Processor).  His research in Greece has been funded by various European and national programs and in the US by the US National Science Foundation, the US Department of Energy and AT&T. He participated as member in scientific committees of many international conferences (ECML-PKDD, IEEE ICDM, ACM KDD, ACM ICS, Parco, PMAA, SIAM ICDM, NumAn, Europar, HERCMA) and on the editorial boards of several journals (Parallel Computing, International Journal of High Speed Computing, Computing in Science and Engineering) and special issues. He is currently serving on the editorial board of the International Journal of Parallel Programming and ISRN Applied Mathematics. He was co-organizer of the 1991 NSF Workshop on Problem Solving Environments, and served as program chair of the 2001 ACM International Conference on Supercomputing. Dr. Gallopoulos received his Ph.D. at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of professor Daniel Slotnick and his B.Sc. (First Class Honours) in Mathematics from the Imperial College of Science and Technology (1979). He is a member of the ACM and SIAM.