DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH                    April 26,1952, Athens - GREECE
NATIONALITY                                GREEK
EMAIL:                                     lagaris@cs.uoi.gr


Current Position:                          Professor,  Dept. of Computer Science
                                           University of Ioannina, Ioannina-GREECE
Past Administrative Position:              Vice Rector for Research, 2010-2014

EDUCATION
University of Ioannina                     B.Sc. in Physics, June 1975
University of Ilinois at Urbana Champaign: MSc in Physics, May 1977
University of Ilinois at Urbana Champaign: PhD in Physics, March 1981, 
                         PhD Thesis Title: "Nuclear Matter with Realistic Hamiltonians"
                                           Advisor: Vijay R. Pandharipande

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

University of Ioannina 1982-1994:          Lecturer, Physics Dept.
                       1994-2000:          Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science.
                       2000     :          Professor,  Dept. of Computer Science. 
                       2000-2006:          Head, Dept. of Computer Science.
                       1998-    :          Director of the Department's Graduate Program. 

VISITING POSITIONS
University of Pisa (Italy):                 9/1984 - 3/1985
                                            3/1989 - 9/1989.

COURANT Institute (New York University)    11/1985 - 1/1986
University of Lecce-Italy:                  9/1989 - 3/1990.

University of S. Africa (UNISA)            3/1993 - 4/1993, 6/1995 - 9/1995
                                           8/1998 - 9/1998, 8/2000 - 9/2000, 7/2001 - 9/2001

University of Tuebingen                    11/1996 - 1/1997.
Purdue University, at Lafayette IN, USA    Academic Year 1997-1998.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
1. Neural Networks for pattern recognition and function approximation.
2. Development & implementation of algorithms for local and global optimization.
3. Simulation of classical systems with the Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo techniques.
4. Development of methods for simulation of quantum systems.
5. Inverse scattering: Methodology and applications.
6. Modeling.
7. Parallel Optimization.