engineering at MIT Charalambos Bouras - historian, professor of History of Architecture and restoration architect Georges Candilis - architect and urbanist, one of the founders of Team 10 Giorgio de Chirico - painter Constantine Dafermos - Greek applied mathematician, professor at Brown University and recipient of Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics Constantinos Daskalakis - computer scientist, professor at MIT Athos Dimoulas - poet Eleftherios N. Economou - Professor of Physics, former Chairman of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas Georgios Gennimatas - former MP, minister and founding member of Panhellenic Socialist Movement John Iliopoulos - recipient of the Dirac Medal Paris Kanellakis - computer scientist, professor at Brown University Linda P. B. Katehi - Chancellor of UC Davis Alexander S. Kechris - mathematician, professor at Caltech Emmanouil Korres - professor, writer, restoration architect Georgios Lianis - Professor and first Minister of Research and Technology (1982) Nikos Markatos - former Rector of the NTUA Max Nikias - former President of the University of Southern California Constantine Papadakis - former president of Drexel University Christos Papadimitriou - computer scientist, laureate of the 2002 Knuth Prize for longstanding and seminal contributions to the foundations of computer science Yannis Papathanasiou - politician, former Minister for Economy and Finance of Greece Nicholas A. Peppas - professor in engineering, University of Texas at Austin Dimitris Pikionis - architect George Prokopiou - billionaire shipowner Athanasios Roussopoulos - professor in applied statics and iron constructions at the National Technical University of Athens, where his work was mostly concerned with the development of the theory of aseismic structures, politician, member of the Greek Parliament and Minister of Public Works in 1966, he was also president of the Technical Chamber of Greece Joseph Sifakis - computer scientist, laureate of the 2007 Turing Award for his work on model checking. Michael Triantafyllou - professor of mechanical and ocean engineering at MIT Alexis Tsipras - former Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Vardoulakis - professor of civil engineering at University of Minnesota and at NTUA, a pioneer of theoretical and experimental geomechanics Iannis Xenakis - one of the most important post-war avant-garde composers, pioneer of the use of mathematical models in music and architect Mihalis Yannakakis - computer scientist, laureate of the 2005 Knuth Prize for numerous ground-breaking contributions to theoretical computer science Mihail Zervos - professor of financial mathematics at London School of Economics See also Athens Polytechnic uprising