Name	Polychronis Manousopoulos
Title	Dr
Contact address Phone number e-mail	Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens TYPA Buildings, Panepistimiopolis, Ilisia 15784, Athens, Greece +30-210-7275107 polyman AT di.uoa.gr
Education	2005-2010   : PhD, “Parameter identification and algorithmic construction of fractal interpolation functions: Applications in digital imaging and visualization” Department of Informatics and Telecommuncations, University of Athens, Greece.  1999-2000  : MSc in Advanced Computing, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK. 1994-1999 : B.Sc. in Computer Science,  Department of Informatics and Telecommuncations, University of Athens, Greece.
Research Interests	- Fractal geometry - Computer graphics and visualisation - Computational methods in finance
Projects	2007-2009 :  "Advanced Methods of Visual Computing in Cultural Heritage" (GSRT research grant #70/3/8405)
Publications	P. Manousopoulos, V. Drakopoulos, and T. Theoharis. Parameter identification of 1D recurrent fractal interpolation functions with applications to imaging and signal processing. To appear in Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 2010. V. Drakopoulos and P. Manousopoulos. Non-tensor product bivariate fractal interpolation surfaces on rectangular grids. Submitted, 2009. P. Manousopoulos, V. Drakopoulos, and T. Theoharis. Parameter identification of 1D fractal interpolation functions using bounding volumes. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 233(4):1063–1082, 2009. P. Manousopoulos, V. Drakopoulos, and T. Theoharis. Point cloud modeling using fractal interpolation. In Proceedings of the Chaos 2009 International Conference, CD version, 2009. V. Drakopoulos and P. Manousopoulos. One dimensional fractal interpolation: Determination of the vertical scaling factors using convex hulls. In Topics on Chaotic Systems: Selected Papers from Chaos 2008 International Conference, 2009. P. Manousopoulos and M. Michalopoulos. Comparison of non-linear optimization algorithms for yield curve estimation. European Journal of Operational Research, 192(2), 2009, pp. 594-602. P. Manousopoulos, V. Drakopoulos, and T. Theoharis. Curve fitting by fractal interpolation. Transactions on Computational Science, 1:85–103, 2008. P. Manousopoulos, V. Drakopoulos, and T. Theoharis. Volume data visualization using fractal interpolation surfaces. In Proceedings of Eurographics 2008 - Short Papers Annex, pages 287–290, 2008. P. Manousopoulos, V. Drakopoulos, and T. Theoharis. Fractal Active Shape Models. In Computer analysis of images and patterns, 12th international conference, volume 4673 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 645–652. Springer, 2007. P. Manousopoulos, V. Drakopoulos, T. Theoharis, and P. Stavrou. Effective representation of 2D and 3D data using fractal interpolation. In Proceedings of International Conference on Cyberworlds, pages 457–464. IEEE Computer Society, 2007. P. Manousopoulos and M. Michalopoulos. Yield curve construction as a non-linear optimization problem. 18th HELORS Conference on Planning, Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management, 2006. P. Manousopoulos and M. Michalopoulos. A comparison of yield curve estimation methods: The Greek case. Journal of Financial Decision Making, 1(1), 2005.
Languages	Greek & English (Fluent) French (Good)