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Dennis Giannacopoulos

Title: 
Dr.
Academic title(s): 

Associate Professor

Salutation: 
Dr
Contact Information
Address: 

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
McConnell Engineering Building
3480 University Street, Room 633
Montreal, QC     H3A 0E9
Canada

Phone: 
514-398-7128
Email address: 
dennis.giannacopoulos [at] mcgill.ca
Department: 
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Unit: 
CEM
Degree(s): 

Ph.D. (McGill), B.Eng. (McGill)

Fields: 
Computational Electromagnetics
Courses: 

ECSE 543 Numerical Methods in Electrical Engineering, ECSE 420 Parallel Computing, ECSE 351 & 251 Electromagnetic Fields, ECSE 211 Design Principles and Methods, ECSE 202 Introduction to Software Development

Position: 
Associate Professor, Associate Chair (Operations)
Research areas: 
Computational Electromagnetics
Awards, honours, and fellowships: 

Sergei A. Schelkunoff Transactions Prize Award 2020

  • Best paper published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation in 2019 awarded for: 

“David S. Abraham and Dennis D. Giannacopoulos, “A Convolution-Free Mixed Finite-Element Time-Domain Method for General Nonlinear Dispersive Media,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 67, no. 1, (2019): 324-334.”

Samuel & Ida Fromson Award for Outstanding Teaching, Faculty of Engineering, 2016

Selected publications: 

Refereed Journal Papers 

[59] A. Akbari, and D. D. Giannacopoulos (2021). Efficient Solver for a Simplified Model of the Multi-Physics Heat Transfer Problem in Radiofrequency Ablation of Hepatic Tumors, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, (57)6:1-4. Date of publication: 19 February 2021, Art no. 5100504. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TMAG.2021.3060628.

[58] A. Akbari, and D. D. Giannacopoulos (2021). An efficient multi-threaded Newton-Raphson algorithm for strong coupling modeling of multi-physics problems, Computer Physics Communications, (258)1:107563(1-9), Date of publication: January 2021, Art ID. 107563. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2020.107563.

[57] D. S. Abraham and D. D. Giannacopoulos (2020). A Parallel Finite-Element Time-Domain Method for Nonlinear Dispersive Media, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, (56)2:1-4. Date of publication: 10 January 2020, Art no. 7507604. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TMAG.2019.2952528.

[56] D. S. Abraham and D. D. Giannacopoulos (2019). A Convolution-Free Finite-Element Time-Domain Method for the Nonlinear Dispersive Vector Wave Equation,", IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, (55)12:1-4. Date of publication: Dec 2019, Art no. 7501904. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/TMAG.2019.2935681.

[55] A. Akbarzadeh-Sharbaf, V. Mohtashami and D. D. Giannacopoulos. An Unconditionally Stable and Energy Preserving Domain Decomposition Method for Transient Modelling of Large-Scale Electromagnetic Problems, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, (67)11:6989-7000. DOI:10.1109/TAP.2019.2927844.

[54] A. Akbari, A. Akbarzadeh-Sharbaf and D. D. Giannacopoulos (2019). Finite-Element Gaussian Belief Propagation Solver for Multi-Physics Modeling of Radiofrequency Tumor Ablation, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 55(6):1-4.

[53] D. S. Abraham and D. D. Giannacopoulos (2019). A Perfectly Matched Layer for the Nonlinear Dispersive Finite-Element Time-Domain Method, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 55(6):1-4.

[52] D. S. Abraham and D. D. Giannacopoulos (2019). A Convolution-Free Mixed Finite-Element Time-Domain Method for General Nonlinear Dispersive Media, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, (67)1:324-334. Date of first publication: October 8, 2018. 

[51] F. Afshar, A. Akbarzadeh-Sharbaf and D. Giannacopoulos. (2017). Wideband Finite-Difference Time-Domain Modeling of Graphene via Recursive Fast Fourier Transform. Progress in Electromagnetics Research C, 75:139-145.

[50] D. S. Abraham and D. D. Giannacopoulos. (2017). A Parallel Implementation of the Correction Function Method for Poisson’s Equation with Immersed Surface Charges. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 53(6):1-4. 

[49] D. Fernández, A. Akbarzadeh-Sharbaf and D. Giannacopoulos. (2017). Solving Finite-Element Time-Domain Problems with GaBP. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 53(6):1-4.

[48] F. Afshar, A. Akbarzadeh-Sharbaf and D. Giannacopoulos. (2016). A Provably Stable and Simple FDTD Formulation for Electromagnetic Modeling of Graphene Sheets. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 52(3):1-4. 

[47] Y. El-Kurdi, D. Fernández, W. J. Gross and D. Giannacopoulos. (2016). Acceleration of the Finite Element Gaussian Belief Propagation Solver Using Minimum Residual Techniques. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 52(3):1-4.

[46] D. S. Abraham and D. D. Giannacopoulos. (2016). Dispersive Möbius Transform Finite Element Time Domain Method on Graphics Processing Units. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 52(3): 1-4.

Publication files: 
PDF icon 58_a_akabari_d_giannacopoulos_2021_an_efficient_multi-threaded_newton_raphson_algorithm_for_strong_coupling_modeling_of_multi-physics_problems_accepted_computer_physics_2020.pdf
PDF icon 55_a._akbarzadeh-sharbaf_v._mohtashami_and_d._d._giannacopoulos._an_unconditionally_stable_and_energy_preserving_domain_decomposition_method_for_transient_modelling_of_large-scale_electromagnetic_problems_.pdf
Current research: 

High performance computing methods for large-scale software systems; Computer simulation technologies for microelectronic systems performance; Application of parallel and distributed simulation methods to the development of microelectronic CAD tools.

For more information please visit http://www.compem.ece.mcgill.ca/index.html

Graduate supervision: 

For more information please visit: http://www.compem.ece.mcgill.ca/faculty.html#giannacopoulos

Professional activities: 

IEEE, Senior Member,
Eng.,Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec

Language(s) spoken: 
English
French/français
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