STYLIANOS KOKKALIS

NAME STYLIANOS S. KOKKALIS

ADDRESS 19A SIFAKA STR, 73100, CHANIA, CRETE, GREECE
DATE OF BIRTH SEPTEMBER 28TH 1984
MARITAL STATUS SINGLE
EMAIL GEPPETO@GMAIL.COM
PHONE NUMBER (+30) 699 2396098

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Stylianos Kokkalis was born in 1984 in Thessalonica, Greece. He is a Visual Artist, Photographer and Computer Scientist. He studied Painting and Computer Science. Has
for many years attended the painting schools of the painter Stergios Stamos and of
Helias Kotsiras, teacher of engraving in the National Fine Arts Academy of Greece in
Athens. He has received scholarships and won several nationwide distinctions for his
performance in computer science and graphics.
He currently does research on Augmented Reality environments, Tactile User
Interfaces, Transformable architecture and human-responsive environments, and
various Articial Intelligence related projects while trying to learn Rachmaninos 3rd
piano concerto. (Editors note: a helpless homo-universalis)

education
SCHOOL
Public basic, middle and
high-school education with nal
grade 98/100 1990-2001
PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH
Michigan Prociency 1996
Acquired the Michigan Prociency
in English Diploma at the age of
12.

sketch, synthesis and mixed

media painting.
DIPLOMA IN ITALIAN
LANGUAGE
Diploma 2001
Acquired the Diploma in Italian
laguage from Instituto Italiano at
the age of 17.

MITTELSTUFE IN GERMAN
LANGUAGE
Mittlestufe Pruefungen 1999
Acquired the Mittelstufe Diploma
in the German Language from
Goethe Institut at the age of 15.

PAINTING
Helias Kotsiras 2000-2002
Painting studies with Helias
Kotsiras. Preparation for the
National Fine Arts Academy and
studies on the forms of Ancient
Greek paintings, and engraving.

PAINTING
Stergios Stamos 1998-2001
Traditional painting and mixed
media studies with the artist
Stergios Stamos graduate of the
School of Fine Arts of Thessalonica
student of V. Dimitreas. Studies on

COMPUTER SCIENCE
Technical University of Crete
2002-2009
First place in the entry for the
undergraduate studies of the
Computer Science Depart- ments
of Greece. Chosen among the four

of all Greeces undergraduate

students to take part in a
culture-exchange program
between Greece and Germany.
PHOTOGRAPHY
George Depollas 2005
Photography studies with the
acknowledged Greek photographer George Depollas.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Constantine Manos and Stella
Johnson Magnum agency
photographers, studies and
teaching assistant of Stella
Johnson for 4 years.
ARCHITECTURE
Course in Architecture with the
subject Space & Identity under
the supervision of John Zavoleas
and Lila Katsatou.

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SKILLS
COMPUTER LANGUAGES

Expert or professional in the following programming languages

Scheme, Lisp, Common Lisp,
C, C++, Objective-C, D,
MIPS Assembly, Intel Assembly,
Python, Ruby, Pearl, Smalltalk,
Java, Javascript, Coeescript, CSS, HTML, Actionscript, PHP,
Bash shell, C- shell, Squeak, ML, OCaml, OZ/Mozart,
Prolog, Lua, Erlang, Applescript and
Flex, Bison and LLVM tools for the development of compilers for new computer languages.
HARDWARE

Have programmed considerable scale projects for the following devices:

Xilinx Virtex 3, Xilinx Virtex 5, ARM Cortex-M3, Arduino
IDEs or SOFTWARE

Have used or actively using the following software:

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Premier,
Adobe After Eects, Adobe Lightroom, PaintShop Pro,
Apple Aperture, Corel Draw, Autocad, ProEngineer,
3D Studio Max, Lightwave, Truespace Calligary,
Bryce 3D, Vue Xstream, Poser, SoftImage, Blender, Modo,
Xcode, Textmate, Emacs, Webstorm.
OTHER COMPUTER SKILLS

Knowledge of systems programming, network administration and security supervision. Was the
administrator of the Universitys Computer Science department network. Expert in the following
environments: Apple Mac OSX, Microsoft Windows 2000/XP, generic Unix, GNU/Linux, Kerberos
single sign-on networks.
Deep understanding and application of web-related technologies such as the MVC programming
model, asynchronous and event-based programming, preprocessors and macros, literate
programming, server-client model, responsive and adaptive designs, grid layouts, cross-browser
cross-platform compliance testing, tweening and CSS based animation, CMS customization like
theming or plugin development for Wordpress and Drupal, jQuery and Underscore, Web workers
and parallel programming, collaborative development environments with GIT.
ART

Painting with oils, acrylics, waterbased inks, pastels, charcoal, fresco, marmorino tintoretto and
other stucco based wall painting techniques, collage, expert in darkroom work, lm developent
and emulsion crossprocessing, medium and large format photography, video editing, stop
motion animation, piano.

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PROJECTS
PAINTING EXHIBITION

Group painting exhibition with the workshop of Stergios Stamos 1998

A CITY COMPLEX

1st prize and Autodesk technical acknowledgment and support for a 3D rendering of a futuristic
city complex. 1999
PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION

Group photography exhibition in Chania with topic The discoloration of black & white 2002
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Publication of various articial intelligence related projects 2004

Became member of the Common Lisp Community, became the maintainer of the Graphical User
Interfaces Development Environment Garnet, one of the biggest Lisp projects developed at
Carnegie Mellon University.
GENETIC ARCHITECTURE

A project generating new architectural spaces through genetic algorithms and natural selection.
2005
SHORT FILM

Deadly Worm A short lm on social isolation inspired by calligarism and surrealism. 2005
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Haiku. An intelligent generator of poems of the Japanese Haiku genre. 2005

SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING

Implementation of an object-oriented Algol-style programming language and a miniscule operating system. 2006
SHORT FILM

Fun with a Train A short lm of a forgotten train in a city neighbourhood. 2005

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION

Group photography exhibition in Chania without topic. Personal topic The Vodafone Generation
2006
PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION

Group photography exhibition in Chania without topic. Personal topic The Eco Robots Age 2006
ARCHITECTURE-INSTALLATION

The memory room 2007

The memory room is an installation which remembers and reproduces its visitors pres- ence
through sound and image. The silhouettes of its inhabitants are processed and projected on its
walls as shadows when the light falls. The visitors create or alter the sound of the space by the
use of various abstract shapes which they stick on walls. The room trans- lates these patterns to
ambient harmonic or disharmonic sounds, the assemblage of which dene each visitors identity.
The room is lled with water in bowls and ventilators which move virtual owers projected on the
walls which signify the present time of the room

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INSTALLATION

Scale 2007
Scale is an installation which combines a live footage of people dancing in a digital natu- ral
environment. A tree becomes the center of the life of the participators and they react with it.
changing its shape.
HUMANE PHOTOGRAPHY

A digital-to-analog neural network for image interpolation. 2007

A neural network learning by example how an analog photography looks like and apply- ing its
knowledge to the resizing of digital images. A software engineering example and a philosophical
research on the in-humane nature of todays consumer-oriented digital photography.
NEURAL NETWORKS

Programmed the fastest backpropagation based neural network library as of 2007 for a Lisp
based image analysis project.
FPGA CPU DESIGN - FOR THE JAPANESE GAME OF GO

Programmed the fastest in the world move generating processor for the japanese game of Go. As
a Thesis for the computer science department, I designed a custom FPGA processor that could
beat (1000 times faster) the best software implementation as of 2009 of a Monte-Carlo based
computer Go player. Go remains till today the last unsolved game where computers cannot
match even average human players. Monte Carlo simulation used as a t function for pruning the
search space of the next possible moves gave a huge boost to computer Go research, nally
transforming the problem to a computer-resource-limited one, and the designed FPGA takes
advantage of hardwares inherent parallelism for a three orders of magnitude performance
boost. 2009-2010
TRANSFORMABLE ARCHITECTURE

Worked along with prof. Kostis Oungrinis of MIT and prof. Marianthi Liapi of MIT for the creation
of an online portal for transformable architecture projects. Front-end and Backend developer of
the www.transformabledesign.com website. 2010-2012
TRANSFORMABLE DESIGNS

Created a simulator for architectural spaces built on the grounds of transformability in architecture. The web application (withan iPad port) reads a feed from a users google calendar, and
examining his daily activities, creates an animation and analysis of the spaces needed as much as
their hourly expanding and shrinking behaviour according to usage. The simulator runs on
www.transformabledesign.com/application/ 2013
DYNAMIC BUILDING PROGRAM: A NEW METHOD TO PRODUCE BUILDING PROGRAMS WITH THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF TIME RELEVANT FACTORS

Presented the transformable architecture simulator augmented with the ability to generate
building reports for architects at the International Conference on Adaptation and Movement in
Architecture, Toronto, Canada 2013
APPLE INC.

Worked in 2014 for Apple Inc as localisation engineer and tester and collaborated in the
development and frontend design of the in-house software used internally for testing.