Panagiotis Takis Metaxas is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and co-Director of the Media Arts and Sciences Program at Wellesley College (located about 10 miles west of Boston). He studied Mathematics at the University of Athens and Computer Science at Brown. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Dartmouth (advisor: Donald B. Johnson) and has been a visiting scientist at MIT and at the Sydney Uni. He spent a couple of years working as the Chief Technology Officer of a biotech company specializing in computerized tests for measuring the symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) and he is now Research Associate at the Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program at McLean Hospital.

He is a member of LACS, ACM, IEEE Computer Society, SIGCSE and SIGACT's electronic publication board. He also serves on the WEBIST 2009 Program Committee and is the Wellesley representative of the CRA.

His research interests are currently in Cybertrust, Web Spam and Cognitive Hacking. He has also published in the areas of Parallel Computing, Multimedia, Algorithm Visualization, and Computer Science Education. Specifically: Parallel Graph and Combinatorial Algorithms, Parallel Algorithmic Techniques and Paradigms, Computer Interfaces for Cultural and Educational Multimedia, CS Curriculum Development, Teaching Methods and Tools. You can access some of his papers available online.