Biography

Dr. Antonis I. Protopsaltis is a Computer Scientist specializing in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design (CAD). He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Ioannina-Greece in 2010, his M.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science (Software Engineering) and his B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science in 1996 and 1994 respectively at Concordia University in Montreal-Canada. He is a Special Teaching Fellow of Computer Graphics with the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Western Macedonia, Greece.

He has conducted research on Geometric Modeling Methods for Reverse Engineering of Scanned Objects using Curves, Surfaces and Discrete Models (triangulations and point clouds), based on Geometric Constraints of Cross-Sections.

His research interests are in the areas of Computer Graphics, Geometric Modeling of 3D objects, Reverse Engineering of 3D objects, Computer Aided Design – CAD, Scientific Visualization, and Computer Vision. He has actively been involved in several Greek or European funded research projects in these areas. He is a reviewer for international scientific journals of high impact. He is consulting the Game Development Student Group in the University of Western Macedonia.

In his professional carreer he has been employed as consultant and lead graphics programmer in the industrial sector.