Mihalis Yannakakis (born 13 September 1953) is a Professor of Computer Science in the Computer Science Department at Columbia University, United States.
He is a famous scholar and researcher, noted for his work in the fields of Complexity theory, Databases, and many other related fields. He won the Donald E. Knuth Prize in 2005.
Yannakakis was born in Athens, Greece in 1953 and attended Varvakeio High school for his early education. He graduated ...
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Mihalis Yannakakis (born 13 September 1953) is a Professor of Computer Science in the Computer Science Department at Columbia University, United States.
He is a famous scholar and researcher, noted for his work in the fields of Complexity theory, Databases, and many other related fields. He won the Donald E. Knuth Prize in 2005.
Yannakakis was born in Athens, Greece in 1953 and attended Varvakeio High school for his early education. He graduated from the National Technical University of Athens in 1975 with a Diploma in Electrical Engineering, and then earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University in 1979. His dissertation was entitled "The Complexity of Maximum Subgraph Problems".
In 1978 he joined Bell Laboratories and served as Director of the Computing Principles Research Department starting from 1991 until 2001, when he left Bell laboratories and joined Avaya Laboratories. There he served as Director of the Computing Principles Research Department until 2002.
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