Panagiotis Metaxas Trusted member Professor Wellesley College ACM IEEE Computer Society SIGWEB SIGCSE SIGCSE SIGACT Electronic publication board Liberal Arts Computer Science Consortium (LACS) CRCS, Harvard University

Biography & Interests

I am a Professor of Computer Science and Founder of the Media Arts and Sciences Program at Wellesley College (near Boston). I studied Mathematics at the University of Athens and Computer Science at Brown University. I hold a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Dartmouth and have been a visiting scientist at MIT and at the Sydney University, Australia. Currently, I am a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS), Harvard University. I spent a couple of years working as the Chief Technology Officer of a biotech company gaining FDA approval for computerized tests measuring the symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) and I am Research Associate at the Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program at McLean Hospital. Since 2010, I have been on the faculty of the Albright Institute for Global Affairs. In terms of professional memberships, I am a Senior Member of the ACM and a Member of LACS, IEEE Computer Society, SIGWEB, SIGCSE and SIGACT's electronic publication board. I also serve on the Program Committees for the AAAI-Web, WEBIST and ICIW conferences and I am the Wellesley representative of the Computing Research Association (CRA). My Erdös number is 3 (e.g., Erdös, Chung, Leighton), and my Ph.D. genealogy goes back to legends such as Carathéodory, Euler and Copernicus.

My research interests are currently in Web Science, Web Spam and Cognitive Hacking. I have published in the areas of Social Computing, Parallel Computing, Multimedia, Algorithm Visualization, and Computer Science Education.