{"id":24571,"date":"2025-05-24T13:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T10:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yessios.strive.gr\/?page_id=24571"},"modified":"2025-07-19T22:06:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T19:06:51","slug":"christos-yessios","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/yessiosmuseum.com\/en\/christos-yessios\/","title":{"rendered":"\u039f \u03a7\u03c1\u03af\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 \u0393\u03ad\u03c3\u03b9\u03bf\u03c2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t\t\t\t\tTHE FOUNDER OF YESSIOS MUSEUM<\/span>

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Christos I. Yessios - PhD<\/strong><\/span>
– <\/span>Co-founder and former President of AutoDesSy<\/span>
\u2013 Professor Emeritus | Ohio State University<\/span>
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Christos I. Yesios was born in Edessa in 1938 and grew up in Thessaloniki from the age of 5. He went to high school at Anatolia College and received degrees in Law (1962) and Architecture (1967) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
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During his student years he also worked in painting, decoration and theatre, as an actor and set designer. In 1968 he went to the USA as a postgraduate student and became a citizen in 1979. He has been married to Alexandra Varsami Yesiou since 1971 and they have 4 children: Ioannis, Aikaterini, Dorothea and Christina.<\/span><\/p>

  • In 1973 he was awarded a PhD degree with a specialization in Computer Aided Design (CAD) from the University of
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  • In 1973 he was appointed Professor of Computer Aided Design at Ohio State University where he taught and researched until 1995.<\/span><\/span><\/li>
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    During his tenure, he wrote and published more than 100 research papers and book chapters and conducted several million dollars worth of research that led to a number of prototype systems. CAD<\/em> \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 3D Modeling<\/em>. His list of sponsors includes: IBM<\/em>, the DEC<\/em> and the US National Science Foundation (NSF)<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    He has received a number of awards, including the Creative Achievement Award<\/em> by the Association of Schools of Architecture (1995), the Excellence Award<\/em> by the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (1998), the Professional Achievement Award<\/em> by the Architectural Society of Ohio (1990) and the Joe Greco Award<\/em> by the CAD Society (2006). In addition, form.Z has received some thirty awards.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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