Nicholas M. Patrikalakis

Present Position:
Kawasaki Professor of Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Ocean Engineering
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 5-428
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307

Telephone: (617) 253-4555 -- Fax: (617) 253-8125 -- email: nmp@mit.edu

Education:

Ph.D., 1983, MIT, Ocean Engineering, Thesis: Theoretical and Experimental Procedures for the Prediction of the Dynamic Behavior of Marine Risers
Diploma in Naval Architecture, Marine and Mechanical Engineering 1977, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Previous Positions:

1990-95, Associate Professor of Ocean Enginering, MIT
1985-90, Assistant Professor of Ocean Engineering, MIT
1983-85, Postdoctoral Assistant, MIT, Department of Ocean Engineering
1977-83, Research and Teaching Assistant, MIT, Department of Ocean Engineering
Summer 1976, National Maritime Institute, Feltham, England
Summer 1974, Design Office, Hellenic Shipyards, Scaramanga, Greece

Honors & Awards:

1996-present, Kawasaki Professorship
1994-95, Computer Aided Design Referee Award
1988-90, Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization
1972-77, Award for Academic Excellence from the Technical Chamber of Greece
1972-77, Award for Academic Excellence from the Institution of Public Scholarships of Greece

Professional Societies:

American Society of Mechanical Engineering
Association for Computing Machinery
Computer Graphics Society
IEEE Computer Society
International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
Technical Chamber of Greece

Publications:
Formulation of a Model for Ship Transit Risk: Year 1 Progress Report, by H. L. Kite-Powell, D. Jin, N. M. Patrikalakis, J. Jebsen, and V. Papakonstantinou, Cambridge: Sea Grant Report 96-19, 1996.

``Robust Interval Algorithm for Surface Intersections'' by C.-Y. Hu, T. Maekawa, N. M. Patrikalakis, and X. Ye, Computer Aided Design, 1996 (To appear).

``Robust Interval Solid Modeling: Part I, Representations'' by C.-Y. Hu, N. M. Patrikalakis, and X. Ye, Computer Aided Design, 28, No. 10 (1996) 807--817.

``Robust Interval Solid Modeling: Part II, Boundary Evaluation'' by C.-Y. Hu, N. M. Patrikalakis, and X. Ye, Computer Aided Design, 28, No. 10 (1996) 819--830.

``Interrogation of Differential Geometry Properties for Design and Manufacture'' by T. Maekawa and N. M. Patrikalakis, The Visual Computer, 10, No. 4, (1994) 216-237.

``Computation of Stationary Points of Distance Functions'' by J. Zhou, E. C. Sherbrooke and N. M. Patrikalakis, Engineering with Computers, 9, No. 4, (1993) 231-246.

``Computation of the Solutions of Nonlinear Polynomial Systems'' by E. C. Sherbrooke and N. M. Patrikalakis, Computer Aided Geometric Design, 10, No. 5, (1993) 379-405.

``Inspection and Feature Extraction of Marine Propellers'' by R. A. Jinkerson, S. L. Abrams, L. Bardis, C. Chryssostomidis, A. Clement, N. M. Patrikalakis and F.-E. Wolter, Journal of Ship Production, 9, No. 2, (1993) 88-106.

``Surface-to-Surface Intersections'' by N. M. Patrikalakis, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 13, No. 1, (1993) 89-95.

``Feature Extraction from B-Spline Marine Propeller Representations'' by N. M. Patrikalakis and L. Bardis, Journal of Ship Research, 36, No. 3, (1992) 233-247.

``Topological and Differential Equation Methods for Surface Intersections'' by G. A. Kriezis, N. M. Patrikalakis and F.-E. Wolter, Computer Aided Design, 24, No. 1, (1992) 41-55.

``Automated Interrogation and Adaptive Subdivision of Shape Using Medial Axis Transform'' by H. N. Gursoy, and N. M. Patrikalakis, Advances in Engineering Software and Workstations, 13, Nos. 5/6, (1991) 287-302.

``A Method for Intersecting Algebraic Surfaces with Rational Polynomial Patches'' by G. A. Kriezis, P. V. Prakash and N. M. Patrikalakis, Computer Aided Design, 22, No. 10, (1990) 645-654.

``Representation of Piecewise Continuous Algebraic Surfaces in Terms of B-Splines'' by N. M. Patrikalakis and G. A. Kriezis, The Visual Computer, 5, No. 6, (1989) 360-374.

``Approximate Conversion of Rational B-Spline Patches'' by L. Bardis and N. M. Patrikalakis, Computer Aided Geometric Design, 6, No. 3, (1989) 189-204.