Biography (last update 1997)

 
Home Address
23, Agias Lavras st., 
GR 111 41 Patisia
Athens, Greece
Tel:+30-1-2232097 

 

 
 
 

Office Address
Computer Science Division
National Technical University of Athens
9, Heroon Politechniou, Zographou 
157 73 Athens, Greece
Tel:+30-1-7722498, Fax:+30-1-7722459
e-mail: afrati@cs.ece.ntua.gr 

 

 

 
1. Education

3/80 PhD in Electrical Engineering, Imperial College of the University of London. Thesis: Error Correcting Codes by Algorithms.

3/80 Diploma of Imperial College.

6/76 Diploma in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
 
 
 

2. Professional Appointments
5/93 to present : Professor of Computer Science, National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
Jan. 1996 : Visiting Researcher at DIMACS.
year 93-94 : Visiting Professor at the University of Paris for three months.
9/89 to 5/93 : Associate Professor of Computer Science, NTU of Athens, Greece.
4/88 to 8/88 : Visiting Researcher at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.
1/88 to 3/88 : Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford CA.
3/88 : Visiting the Computer Science Dept., University of California at San Diego, La Jolla CA.
10/87 to 12/87 : Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, RI.
9/85 to 9/89 : Assistant Professor of Computer Science, National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
1/86 to 3/86 : Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford CA.
9/82 to 8/85 : Lecturer of Computer Science, NTU of Athens, Greece.
9/80 to 8/82 : Research Fellow, Electrical Engineering Dept., NTU of Athens, Greece.
 
 
 
 
 

3. Research Interests

Recent research interests are in the areas of databases and algorithms. More specifically, they include: database query languages, constraint databases, spatial databases, logic programming and databases, synthesis of logic programs, logical foundations of artificial intelligence, analysis of algorithms, parallel algorithms and complexity, scheduling, computational complexity. Other topics on which research has been conducted include: communication protocols in distributed systems error correcting codes and multimedia.
 
 
 

4. Research Projects

Principal investigator for projects founded by the Greek Secretariat of Research and Technology in the following topics and dates:
Theory of databases(1985-1987)
Algorithms and Computational Complexity(1985-1987)
Logic programing(1990-1992)
Knoweledge Represantation (1994-1996)
Object Oriented Databases (1995-1997)

Partner of the ECE founded Network of excellence in "Computational Logic" (1991- ).

Partner in HCM network in the area of "Logic Program Synthesis and Transformation".

Partner in the Esprit funded working group "CONTESSA", in the area of constraint databases.

Partner in ESF funded project on "Embryonic Database"

Host for HCM grant holder (1995-1996) on Scheduling.

Participation in many european projects in the areas of Computational Complexity and Artificial Intelligence .
 

5. Other Professional Activities

Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, the Greek Mathematical Society, the Greek Computer Science Association, and the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.

Organizing Committee member of the IEEE Conference MELECON'83, of ICALP'85 and the IEEE Communication Theory Workshop 1991.

Program Committee member of the ACM Conference PODS'92 and ICDT'92.

Member of the Committee for higher education of the Technical Chamber of Greece.

Reviewer in the Journals "Information and Computation", "The Computer Journal" , "Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences" ,"IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering" and the Journal of "Theoretical Computer Science".

She has been invited and give talks at IBM J. Watson Research Center (June 1988), Bell Laboratories (February 1992), Courant Institute of New York University (February 1992) University of Pennsylvania (February 1992), Stanford University (March 1988), Imperial College (December 1992), Universite Paris XI, VI, INRIA Rocquenqourt (1993).

Programm committee member and Orginizing committee chairman of the Second workshop of Compulog Network network of excellence)

Program Committee Chair and Organizing Committee chair of ICDT'97.