{"id":11,"date":"2021-07-15T21:29:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T18:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erga.di.uoa.gr\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2026-10-12T10:27:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T07:27:29","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/erga.di.uoa.gr\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"line-height:1.5\">The \u0395\u03c1\u0393\u0391 Lab was founded in 2002 and is headed by <a href=\"https:\/\/cgi.di.uoa.gr\/~emiris\/\">Professor Ioannis Emiris<\/a>, currently President and Director General of ATHENA Research Center. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"line-height:1.5\">The Lab is affiliated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.athenarc.gr\/en\">ATHENA Research &amp; Innovation Center<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.di.uoa.gr\/en\">Department of Informatics &amp; Telecommunications<\/a>, National &amp; Kapodistrian University of Athens. It is part of the joint team <a href=\"https:\/\/team.inria.fr\/aromath\/\">AROMATH <\/a>affiliated with INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (France).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0395\u03c1\u0393\u0391 addresses the entire spectrum of problem solving, starting with algorithm design, and software development up to application to real world questions. In particular, our expertise lies in the following domains:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>study and solution of polynomial equations and systems: sparse \/ structured systems, resultants, and root counts;<\/li><li>symbolic-numeric computation, exact vs approximation computing, structured matrices;<\/li><li>computational geometry: proximity (Voronoi) diagrams of complex shapes, and convex hull in general dimension;<\/li><li>convex and combinatorial geometry: mixed volume, and convex volume by approximation algorithms for sampling and  random walks;<\/li><li>metric geometry, dimensionality reduction, high-dimensional similarity search, and clustering,<\/li><li>mathematical modeling of the physical world: geometric modeling, VLSI design, bioinformatics, rigidity theory, robotics, fintech.<\/li><li>regression, forecasting, and geometric deep learning.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Our dedicated office space is room A8, 1st floor of the department&#8217;s building at the NKUA Campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"has-font-color has-text-color\"><strong>Contact<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>National &amp; Kapodistrian University of Athens<br>Department of Informatics &amp; Telecommunications, Room A8<br>Panepistimiopolis 15784 Athens<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ATHENA Research and Innovation Center<br>Artemidos 6 and Epidavrou str.<br>15125 Paradisos Maroussi <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email: emiris AT di.uoa.gr \/ emiris AT athenarc.gr<br>Tel: +30 210 \u2013 727 5105 \/ 687 5301<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u0395\u03c1\u0393\u0391 Lab was founded in 2002 and is headed by Professor Ioannis Emiris, currently President and Director General of<span class=\"more-dots\">&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"more-tag\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/erga.di.uoa.gr\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"About\"<\/span><\/a><\/span><!-- .more-tag --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/home.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erga.di.uoa.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erga.di.uoa.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erga.di.uoa.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erga.di.uoa.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erga.di.uoa.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/erga.di.uoa.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"https:\/\/erga.di.uoa.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erga.di.uoa.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erga.di.uoa.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}