Kimon Fountoulakis
Associate Professor
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolKimon Fountoulakis is a tenured Associate Professor and head of the Optimization, Analytics and Learning (OpAL) Lab at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, with 11 years of experience in machine learning on graphs. He combines a strong theoretical foundation—PhD and MSc in Numerical Optimization from the University of Edinburgh—with applied research stints at Berkeley, ICSI, and Google focused on learning from multi-modal, relational data. His work advances methods that fuse node features and graph structure for prediction and analytics, bridging optimization, statistics, and scalable ML. Known for mentoring students and building research teams, he brings both academic rigor and practical impact to problems in graph-based learning.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Management Science and Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Management Science and Technology at Athens University of Economics and BusinessDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Numerical Optimization, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Numerical Optimization at University of Edinburgh, School of Mathematics
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Github Skills (23)
graph-algorithms10
visualization10
graph10
jupyter-notebook10
julia10
python9
ranking9
react8
computer-science8
clustering8
science8
ai8
machine-learning8
artificial-intelligence8
pytorch8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
opallab/cs886-winter-2023
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:119 commits, 119 pushes in 3 months
watcl-lab/watcl.github.io
Sep 2021 - May 2026
Contributions:306 pushes in 4 years 8 months
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