PEOPLE

Nicholas M. Patrikalakis

Kawasaki Professor of Engineering,
Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering
Room 5-230A, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: (617)-253-4555, Fax: (617)-253-8125, E-mail: nmp@mit.edu

SMART Centre, c/o NUS, S16-06-19
3 Science Drive 2, Singapore, 117543
Tel: (65)-65168592, Fax: (65)-67785654

Academic Preparation:

• PhD in Ocean Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983
• Diploma in Naval Architecture, Marine and Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1977

Appointments:

• 2005-2008: Associate Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering
• 1999-present: Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering
• 1996-present: Kawasaki Professor of Engineering
• 1995-2004: Professor of Ocean Engineering
• 1990-1995: Associate Professor of Ocean Engineering
• 1988-1990: Doherty Assistant Professor of Ocean Utilization
• 1985-1990: Assistant Professor of Ocean Engineering
• 1983-1985: Postdoctoral Associate, MIT, Ocean Engineering

Honors:

• Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Intern. J. Computer-Aided Design
• Member of the Editorial Boards of five Journals: The Intern. J. of Shape Modeling, The Visual Computer, Graphical Models, Intern. J. of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, and Intern. J. of Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
• Program chair of Computer Graphics International 1991 (CGI '91), program co-chair of CGI '98, Pacific Graphics '98, ACM Solid Modeling Symposium 2002, chair of the 1998 NSF DICPM workshop, co-chair of the ACM Solid Modeling Symposium 2004, and Convention Chair for the 2005 Convention on Shapes and Solids (ACM Solid and Physical Modeling Symposium and IEEE Shape Modelling International Conference)

Four Recent Publications:

• Path Planning of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles for Adaptive Sampling Using Mixed Integer Linear Programming by N. K. Yilmaz, C. Evangelinos, P.F.J. Lermusiaux and N. M. Patrikalakis. IEEE Ocean Engineering. In Press.
• Web-Enabled Configuration and Control of Legacy Codes: An Application to Ocean Modelling by C. Evangelinos, P. F. J. Lermusiaux, S. K. Geiger, R. C. Chang, and N. M. Patrikalakis. Ocean Modelling. Vol. 13, No. 3-4, pp. 197-220, 2006
• Adaptive Coupled Physical and Biogeochemical Ocean Predictions: A Conceptual Basis by P. F. J. Lermusiaux, C. Evangelinos, R. Tian, P. J. Haley, J. J. McCarthy, N. M. Patrikalakis, A. R. Robinson and H. Schmidt. Computational Science - ICCS'2004, International Conference on Computational Science, June 2004, Krakow, Poland. DDDAS Workshop, F. Darema, Chair. M. Bubak et al, Editors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 3038, pp. 685-692. Berlin: Springer, 2004
• Flow Feature Extraction in Oceanographic Visualization by D. Guo, C. Evangelinos, N. M. Patrikalakis. Computer Graphics International Conference 2004. D. Cohen-Or et al, Editors. pp. 162-173. Crete, Greece, June 2004. IEEE Computer Society Press, 2004

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