Alumni Fellows Program:

One of the goals of the Institute to develop an Alumni Fellows Program, to bring the rich creative and innovative experiences, practices and inventions of our alums back to campus -- to be shared with our students, school community and the wider Athenian and Greek community.  In this way, ACS Athens and the Institute can play a pivotal role in promoting and inculcating a culture of innovation and creative change, not only for our students and staff, but also for the wider Greek society, where innovative and creative solutions to seemingly intractable problems are sorely needed.

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November 20th, 2010 for the international TEDxYouthDay, the IIC hosted its FIRST ALUMNI FELLOW:

Dr. Yanni Alexander Loukissas, who is an interdisciplinary researcher and educator working across multiple fields, including architecture, art, engineering, and anthropology. His work is driven by a persistent interest in how new technologies shape our social, spatial and intellectual landscapes. At present, he is developing visualization tools for the study of human-machine relationships in complex environments, such as multi-modal traffic systems, undersea archeology, and space exploration. He is also writing a book based on his doctoral dissertation, "Conceptions of Design in a Culture of Simulation." 

Dr. Loukissas is currently a postdoctoral associate at MIT, where he works with the Laboratory for Automation, Robotics, and Society (LARS). He has taught architectural design, visual art, computer programming, and social theory at Cornell, MIT, and the Museum School. He also consults on projects that bring together art and technology in innovative ways. Most recently, he worked with Small Design Firm on an art information system for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. He holds a PhD and a SMArchS in Design and Computation from MIT and a BArch from Cornell University. He graduated from ACS Athens in 1994.