Vasilis Samoladas

Vasilis Samoladas is an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Technical University of Crete. He holds a PhD (2001) and an MSc (1995) in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1992). His research focuses on computational geometry, complexity theory, database systems, distributed systems, and quantum computation. He has published in leading journals such as JACM and Algorithmica, and conferences like PODS and VLDB. He received a Best Paper Award at PODS'98 and has served on program committees for SIM, AAMAS, and others. He coordinates High-Performance Computing initiatives at TU Crete and leads the Software and Networked Systems Lab (Softnet).

Education:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, 2001
• M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, 1995
• Diploma in Electrical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 1992

Research interests include distributed information systems, parallel programming, and multidimensional range searching. He teaches courses on operating systems, distributed systems, computational geometry, and algorithms.

Awards:

• Best Paper Award at PODS'98

Grants: Attracted funding from national and EU sources.

Labs/Teams: Scientific coordinator of High-Performance Computing at TU Crete; member of the Software Technology and Network Applications Laboratory and Softnet Lab.