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Jason Digalakis is a Postdoctoral Researcher specializing in Applied Informatics, with a strong focus on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Metaheuristic Algorithms.
Jason Digalakis was born in Queens, Astoria, USA, in 1976. He completed his high school education in Chania, Crete, in 1994. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Informatics from the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1998. He continued his studies at the same university, earning his Ph.D. in 2005. His doctoral research was centered on Parallel Metaheuristic Algorithms, where he introduced new implementations of Parallel Memetic Algorithms for solving complex optimization problems.
Currently, Jason Digalakis holds multiple affiliations:
He is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Parallel Processing Group (PPG-UoA) at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
He is also a researcher in artificial intelligence, metaheuristic search, and machine learning in medicine and healthcare at the Biomedical Engineering Laboratory (BEL-NTUA) at the National Technical University of Athens.
He maintains a connection with the Parallel Distributed Processing Laboratory at the University of Macedonia.
His research interests include:
Metaheuristics
GPU Programming with CUDA
Hybrid Programming in CUDA, OpenMP, and MPI
Dr. Digalakis's research centers on various advanced computing topics, including:
Metaheuristics: These are computational intelligence paradigms used for solving complex optimization problems. His work in this area includes research on Genetic Algorithms (GAs) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO).
GPU Programming with CUDA: Utilizing Graphics Processing Units for high-performance computing.
Hybrid Programming: Combining different programming models like CUDA, OpenMP, and MPI for parallel and distributed computing.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Medicine and Healthcare: Applying AI and machine learning techniques to solve problems in the biomedical field.
