National Technical University of Athens - Alumni

Alumni

• Nicolas Ambraseys - Emeritus Professor of Engineering Seismology at Imperial College London
• Dimitris Anastassiou - Developer of MPEG-2 algorithm for transmitting high quality audio and video over limited bandwidth, Columbia University professor of electrical engineering
• Mimis Androulakis - Greek author and politician
• John Argyris - One of the founders of the Finite Element Method, Professor at Imperial College London and University of Stuttgart
• Tassos Argyros- Computer scientist and co-founder of Aster Data Systems
• Costas Azariadis - Professor Emeritus at the Department of Economics, UCLA and Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
• Dimitri Bertsekas - McAfee Professor of Engineering at MIT
• Maria Damanaki - Greek politician
• Constantinos Daskalakis - Computer scientist, professor at MIT
• Athos Dimoulas - Greek poet
• John Iliopoulos - Recipient of the Dirac Medal
• Paris Kanellakis - Computer scientist, professor at Brown University
• Vassilis Leventis - Greek politician, leader of the Greek centrist party Union of Centrists
• Constantine Papadakis - Former President of Drexel University
• Christos Papadimitriou - Computer scientist, laureate of the 2002 Knuth Prize for longstanding and seminal contributions to the foundations of computer science
• Yannis Papathanasiou - Greek politician, former Minister for Economy and Finance of Greece
• Nicholas A. Peppas - Chaired Professor in Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, pioneer in drug delivery, biomaterials, hydrogels and nanobiotechnology
• Dimitris Pikionis, architect
• Athanasios Roussopoulos - Professor in Applied Statics and Iron Constructions at the National Technical University of Athens, where his work was mostly concerned with the development of the theory of aseismic structures, politician, member of the Greek Parliament and Minister of Public Works in 1966. He was also President of the Technical Chamber of Greece.
• Joseph Sifakis - Computer scientist, laureate of the 2007 Turing Award for his work on model checking.
• Alexis Stamatis - Greek novelist and poet
• Michael Triantafyllou - Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at MIT
• Alexis Tsipras - Greek politician, chairman of the Coalition of the Radical Left political party
• Ioannis Vardoulakis - Professor of Civil Engineering at University of Minnesota and at NTUA, a pioneer of theoretical and experimental geomechanics
• Iannis Xenakis - One of the most important post-war avant-garde composers,pioneer of the use of mathematical models in music
• Mihalis Yannakakis - Computer scientist, laureate of the 2005 Knuth Prize for numerous ground-breaking contributions to Theoretical Computer Science
• Mihail Zervos - Professor of Financial Mathematics at London School of Economics