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2022

• 1/12/2022 I am exited to start a new position as an R&D Software Engineer in Leica Geosystems part of Hexagon.

• 28/10/2022 My PhD thesis titled “Problems on Planar Voronoi Diagrams” is published. You can download it here.

• 15/10/2022 The paper “On selecting a fraction of leaves with disjoint neighborhoods in a plane tree” has been published.

• 14/3/2022 Our paper “Subdivision Methods for Sum-Of-Distances Problems: Fermat-Weber Point, n-Ellipses and the Min-Sum Cluster Voronoi Diagram” got accepted in the “38th International Symposium on Computational Geometry: Media Exposition” taking place in Berlin, Germany.

• 18/1/2022 I joined the Hellenic Army for 9 months to fullfil my military obligations, compulsory for all Greek nationals.

• 12/1/2022 I successfully defended my PhD dissertation titled “Problems on Planar Voronoi Diagrams”.

2021

• 24/11/2021 Great news! My dissertation defense has been scheduled to take place on Wednesday 12/1/2022 at 10:30 (UTC +01:00). It is open for any to attend both in person (USI Campus EST, room D1.13) and online (MS teams link). More details can be found here.

• 6-10/9/2021 I (virtually) attended the “9th European Symposium on Algorithms” (part of ALGO 2021) taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, and I presented our paper “The Voronoi Diagram of Rotating Rays with applications to Floodlight Illumination”. Our paper “Certified Approximation Algorithms for the Fermat Point and n-Ellipses” was also presented there.

• 5-7/7/2021 I (virtually) attended the “XIX Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry” taking place in Madrid, Spain, and I presented our papers “The Voronoi Diagram of Rotating Rays with applications to Floodlight Illumination” and “New Variants of Perfect Non-crossing Matchings”.

• 23/6/2021 Our papers “The Voronoi Diagram of Rotating Rays with applications to Floodlight Illumination” and “Certified Approximation Algorithms for the Fermat Point and n-Ellipses” got accepted in the “29th European Symposium on Algorithms” taking place in Lisbon, Portugal.

• 7-11/6/2021 I (virtually) attended the “Computational Geometry Week 2021” taking place in Buffalo, USA.

• 21/5/2021 Our papers “The Voronoi Diagram of Rotating Rays with applications to Floodlight Illumination” and “New Variants of Perfect Non-crossing Matchings” got accepted for presentation in the “XIX Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry” taking place in Madrid, Spain.

• 7-9/4/2021 I (virtually) attended the “37th European Workshop on Computational Geometry” taking place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and I presented our paper “The Voronoi Diagram of Rotating Rays with applications to Floodlight Illumination”.

• 27/2/2021 Our paper “The Voronoi Diagram of Rotating Rays with applications to Floodlight Illumination” got accepted in the “37th European Workshop on Computational Geometry” taking place in St. Petersburg, Russia.

• 11-13/2/2021 I (virtually) attended the “7th International Conference on Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics” taking place in Ropar, India, and I presented our paper “New Variants of Perfect Non-crossing Matchings”. My presentation received the Springer Best Student Presentation Award.

• 2/2/2021 Our paper “On selecting a fraction of leaves with disjoint neighborhoods in a plane tree” got accepted for publication in the journal “Discrete Applied Mathematics” by Elsevier.

• 5-8/1/2021 I (virtually) attended the “14th Latin American Theoretical Informatics Symposium” taking place in São Paulo, Brazil, and I presented our paper “Farthest Color Voronoi Diagrams: Complexity and Algorithms”.

2020

• 12/11/2020 Our paper “New Variants of Perfect Non-crossing Matchings” got accepted in the “7th International Conference on Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics” taking place in Ropar, India.

• 8-11/9/2020 I attended the Voronoi++ project meeting taking place somewhere in Styria, Austria, and I gave a talk “On Color Voronoi Diagrams”

• 22-26/6/2020 I (virtually) attended the “Computational Geometry Week 2020” taking place in Zürich, Switzerland.