Leonidas Palios *92

Leonidas died Jan. 21, 2026, at the age of 60, after a brief illness.

He was born on the Greek island of Chioso, Feb. 8, 1965. After earning a diplom-ingenieur degree in electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1987, he entered Princeton’s computer science department and earned his Ph.D. in 1992.

At Princeton, he worked with Bernard Chazelle on problems in computational geometry. During graduate school he was an active member of the Hellenic Association of Princeton and a regular host of Musical Odyssey, a weekly Greek music program on WPRB.

After graduating from Princeton, Leonidas worked at the Geometry Center in Minnesota and taught at the University of Minnesota. Following his service in the Hellenic Navy, he joined the University of Ioannina in 1997 as an assistant professor and later became a full professor. He taught and conducted research in theoretical computer science.

He is survived by his spouse, Marina.

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