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Wednesday, 20 December 2006

+++ Seven Athens Information Technology graduates admitted for PhD's at the best European Universities +++

Seven ΑΙΤ graduates, from the 2006 MSIN program (offered by AIT in cooperation with Carnegie Mellon University), have been accepted, with scholarships, by leading European universities to continue their PhD studies. Supported by their education and research activities at AIT, the graduates are prepared to meet the high standards required to implement research projects and to promote cutting-edge technology using advanced methods and techniques. Following their accomplishments, the following students have been admitted to the following PhD programs:

• Chinwe Abosi, from Botswana, MSIN graduate (2006), has been accepted by scholarship at Essex University, in UK. Her PhD will be on Photonics technologies.
• Konstantinos Gkoutzis, from Greece, MSIN graduate (2006), has been accepted by the University of Plymouth in UK. His PhD will be on XML Technologies & Semantic Web.
• Ghassan Karame, from Lebanon, MSIN graduate (2006), who, during his studies collaborated with two research groups at AIT - Algorithms & Security, Autonomics & Grid Computing - has been accepted by the University of EPFL in Switzerland

Meanwhile, AIT Alumni who have continued to work with research groups at AIT after their graduation, have received recognition in the scientific community, have been published in international scientific journals (IEEE, SIAM), have participated in conferences and have had an active role in research projects carried out in AIT's laboratories. The experience and results gathered supported the development of their independent research activities and enabled them to continue their studies towards obtaining a Ph.D. Specifically, we refer to the following students who were accepted by the following universities:

• Mr. Vassilis Milonakis was accepted by the National Metsovio Polytechnic in Greece where he will continue his work on Grids.

• Mr. Ilias Pendzeperis was accepted by the Max Plank research center in Germany where he will continue his work in the field of Biomedical Engineering.

• Mr. George Souretis begins his Ph.D. on Biomedical Engineering at the Imperial College of London.

• Mr. Ioannis Papayiannakis is continuing his studies at the University of Patras in Greece in the field of Mitigation of Optical Transmission Impairments by electronic means.

In addition to the above students, there are four more AIT graduates waiting for the results of their applications to continue their studies towards a PhD at European and American universities.

AIT is proud of its students and wishes them the best for their careers.

About Athens Information Technology (AIT)
Founded in 2001 by INTRACOM Group, AIT is a non-profit center of excellence in research and post-graduate studies and the largest private investment in Greece in the research and education. AIT offers a post-graduate degree in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh, USA, and executive training programs in collaboration with Harvard University and the Kokkalis Foundation. To date, ΑΙΤ has offered more than 250 scholarships to students from 21 countries. For complete information on AIT's programs and activities, please visit: www.ait.gr.