Manos Kamarianakis

Manos Kamarianakis

Adjunct Professor @ UoC
Adjunct Professor @ TUC
Research Director @ ORamaVR

Computer Science Department, University of Crete

School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Crete

ORamaVR

Manos is a Computational Geometer, an Algebraist, and a riddle enthousiast.

Born in Chania, Crete, he fell in love with Mathematics, riddles and hourglasses at a young age after seeing The Crystal Maze TV Show. He soon found himself at University of Crete (UoC), in Heraklion, studying Mathematics, pure and applied. There, he realized that he was also fond of algorithms and, after pursuing a Ph.D. in Computational Geometry and a postdoc at Algebra & Logic, he ended up designing geometric algorithms for VR/AR at ORamaVR and teaching Computer Graphics at UoC, as well as Mathematics at Technical University of Crete (TUC).

Should you see him wandering in a corridor, feel free to talk to him for anything related to mathematics, geometry, algebra, puzzles or bridge (yes, the card game)!

Manos Kamarianakis is an adjunct professor at the Computer Science Department at University of Crete, Heraklion. He is also a research executive at ORamaVR, a spinoff startup company of FORTH, as well as a visiting collaborator with FORTH’s Human-Computer Interaction Lab. His research revolves about Computational Geometry, i.e., he tries to solve geometry-based problems using algebraic techniques, by designing and optimizing the necessary algorithms. His research is applied to Computer Graphics related problems, where he usually exploits the so called Geometric Algebra, a high-dimensional algebra capable to encapsulate objects as well as their transformations in a uniform format, called multivector. As all modern scientists, he tries to incorporate his knowledge and methods with Machine Learning techniques (especially interested in GNNs), towards a better tomorrow.

Interests

Computational Geometry
Computer Graphics
Geometric Algebra
Machine Learning

Education

PhD , UoC (2019)
MSc , UoC (2011)
2nd BS , UoC (2014)
1st BS , UoC (2008)

Service: ENGAGE CGI Commitee · Reviewer in various venues · Leader of ORAMA’s Use Case at 5G-EPICENTRE · Deputy Leader of ORAMA’s Use Case at CHARITY · Heraklion Bridge Club moderator ·

Recent Publications

Discover all publications of Manos HERE.
(2024). Ga-unity: a production-ready unity package for seamless integration of geometric algebra in networked collaborative applications. Springer International Publishing (to appear), Presented at CGI 2024 ENGAGE Workshop. Best Paper and Presentation Award, Best Application Award.

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(2024). Vr isle academy: a vr digital twin approach for robotic surgical skill development. Springer International Publishing (to appear), Presented at CGI 2024.

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(2023). pyGANDALF - An open-source Geometric, ANimation, Directed, Algorithmic, Learning Framework for Computer Graphics. SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Educator’s Forum Best Education Paper Award.

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Teaching

HY-358, Fall 2024
Computer Graphics
MATH-101, Fall 2024
Single Variable Calculus
Earlier Courses
Computer Graphics  HY-358, Fall 2023
Computer Graphics  HY-358, Fall 2022

Contact

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  • 0030 69 46 41 41 49
  • University Campus, Heraklion, Voutes 71500
    • University of Crete, Computer Science Department, Room Ε303
    • Technical University of Crete, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Room 149145Α-30 (Science Building)
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