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Dr. Patrikalakis is the Kawasaki Professor of Engineering at MIT and
holds a joint faculty appointment in the Departments of Ocean and
Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He received a Diploma in Naval
Architecture in 1977 from the National Technical University of Athens,
Greece, and a Ph.D. in Ocean Engineering in 1983 from MIT. His
research in the last 18 years has focused in the general area of
applications of computational geometry, geometric modeling, numerical
simulation and software engineering in design, analysis and
fabrication of complex systems. He has made important contributions
in the areas of surface-to-surface intersections for geometric
modeling and CAD/CAM applications; robustness in nonlinear geometric
modeling; free-form low-order algebraic surfaces; reliable
approximation of high-order and procedural parametric curves and
surfaces for accurate data exchange between different CAD systems;
approximation of generalized offsets for machining, tolerancing and
inspection applications in CAM; topologically reliable meshing;
feature recognition based on medial axis transform and global
differential geometry to assist automated idealization and finite
element discretization of structures for performance evaluation and
simulation of manufacturing processes; measured surface localization
to assist automated inspection of sculptured mechanical objects;
scientific visualization and databases, and underwater visualization
and map construction and interrogation. His current research focuses
on CAD/CAM for objects with local composition control in solid
free-form fabrication (SFF), solid model rectification, and distributed
information systems for multidisciplinary large-scale physical system
simulation.
Prof. Patrikalakis is co-director of the Design
Laboratory (http://deslab.mit.edu) and the Fabrication Laboratory
(http://fablab.mit.edu), and a member of the 3D Printing Laboratory
(http://www.mit.edu/~tdp/). Fourteen Ph.D. and 29 M. Eng., S.M. and
Engineer's theses have been completed so far under Dr. Patrikalakis'
direction. Prior to his work in geometric modeling, he focused his
research on theoretical, numerical, and experimental structural
dynamics. For his work in CAD, Dr. Patrikalakis was appointed Doherty
Assistant Professor at MIT (1988-1990) and since October 1996 as the
Kawasaki Professor of Engineering at MIT. He has published over 130
papers and one textbook
(http://deslab.mit.edu/DesignLab/pubs/N-T-Book.html), and has edited
16 journal special issues or conference proceedings. He has received
research funding from NSF, ONR, DARPA, NAVSEA, Sea Grant, NOAA, USCG,
USACE, NUWC, MMS, NIRO, General Electric, Westinghouse, Chevron,
Conoco, Doherty Foundation, Furukawa Electric Company and Toshiba. He
has served as consultant to various organizations, sat on committees
of several professional societies, and is a member of the board of directors
of the Computer Graphics Society. He is a member of ACM, ASME, CGS, IEEE, ISOPE,
SIAM, SNAME and TCG, and Associate
Editor-in-Chief of IJOPE, and ASME Transactions (JCISE) and
participates in the editorial boards of several journals,
eg. International Journal of Shape Modeling, The Visual Computer,
Computer-Aided Design, Mathematical Engineering in Industry, and
Graphical Models. He has served as program chair of Computer Graphics
International 1991 (CGI '91), as program co-chair of CGI '98, Pacific
Graphics '98, ACM Solid Modeling Symposium 2002, and the 1994 NSF
Design and Manufacturing Systems Grantees Conference, and as chair of
the 1998 NSF DICPM workshop.