Dimitris Sotiropoulos

Dimitris Sotiropoulos is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Peloponnese, specializing in Engineering Mathematics. He holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics (1995) and a Ph.D. (2005) in Mathematical Programming and Numerical Analysis.

• Over 20 years of higher education teaching
• Author/co-author of 36+ scientific articles
• Supervised 20+ postgraduate theses

Research Interests focus on computational mathematics, global optimization algorithms, and machine learning. Specific areas include interval analysis for automatic result verification, large-scale optimization, nonlinear equation solving, and artificial neural network training.

His scientific work spans sustainability assessments for aerospace components, uncertainty quantification in composite materials, and stress modeling in human-computer interaction. Articles highlight applications of interval analysis to optimization problems and neural network training improvements via BFGS methods.

Teaching roles include lectures at Ionian University's Department of Informatics and University of Peloponnese's Department of Computer Science and Technology. He also serves on Hellenic Open University's Supervisory Board since 2009, mentoring postgraduate students in computational mathematics.