Short Bio

I am an Assistant Professor in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing at the Department of Statistics and Actuarial - Financial Mathematics at the University of the Aegean. I am also a Member of the Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics (IACM) of FORTH.

You can download my resume in pdf form: smaragdakis-resume.pdf

Research Interests

Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computing, Mathematical Modelling, Deep Learning

Current Teaching

Fall Semester 2025-26

Εφαρμοσμένη Γραμμική Άλγεβρα Ι -- Applied Linear Algebra I

Διαφορικές Εξισώσεις -- Differential Equations

Past Teaching

Over the years, I have had the privilege of teaching a diverse range of courses. My teaching experience spans both foundational and advanced subjects in mathematics, including Analytical Geometry and Complex Numbers, Applied Linear Algebra I & II, Differential and Partial Differential Equations, Numerical Analysis, Calculus II, Mathematical Finance, Wave Propagation, as well as statistics courses such as Descriptive, Parametric, and Applied Statistics.

Fun fact: Since the Fall 2020 semester, I have taught at least one new course each teaching semester, a challenge I embrace as it allows me to continually broaden my academic teaching experience.

Current Research

Solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) and Partial Integro-Differential Equations (PIDEs) with Numerical Analysis and Neural Networks.

🚀 G. Akrivis, C. G. Makridakis, C. Smaragdakis: Runge-Kutta Physics Informed Neural Networks: Formulation and Analysis. Numerische Mathematik, 2025 (to appear). [pdf]

💥 C. Smaragdakis: Learning Geometric-Aware Quadrature Rules for Functional Minimization. Preprint and submitted for publication, 2025. [pdf, arXiv:2508.05445]

💥 E.H. Georgoulis, A. Papapantoleon, C. Smaragdakis: A deep implicit-explicit minimizing movement method for option pricing in jump-diffusion models. Preprint and submitted for publication, 2025. [pdf, arXiv:2401.06740]

Recent and Upcoming Events (Since 2024)

🇬🇷 (invited) 19th Panhellenic Conference on Mathematical Analysis -- PCMA-2025 -- Athens, December 18-20

🇬🇷 (invited) 22th Summer Meeting in Risk, Finance and Stochastics -- RFS-2025 -- Athens, September 22-26

🇨🇦 (invitation-only event) Modern Challenges between Financial Mathematics, Financial Technology and Financial Economics workshop -- Banff, Alberta, Canada, 10-15 November, 2024

🇬🇷 (invited) 21th Summer Meeting in Risk, Finance and Stochastics -- RFS-2024 -- Athens, September 9-13

🇳🇱 International Conference on Computational Finance -- ICCF24 -- Amsterdam, 2-5 April 2024 Organizer (with Jasper Rou, TU Delft) of the mini-symposium entitled Machine Learning Methods in Finance

🇬🇷 International (online) Workshop -- Migration, Migration Flows Prediction Models and Migration Policy: trends, socio-political challenges and policy scenarios, 8 April 2024. Member of the scientific committee.