The 2024 International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2024), held from July 7 to 12 in Athens, Greece, included a chess event with Grandmaster Vasilios Kotronias, who played against 30 people. The games lasted more than 3.5 hours! GM Kotronias won 27 games and drew 3 against three players, and one of them was Javad Maheri a PhD student in the Communication Systems Department at EURECOM, under the supervision of Professor Petros Elia.
Javad is enthusiastic about combinatorial problems in the area of distributed computing. His thesis topic: Information theoretic limits of distributed computing and communication.
More information on https://2024.ieee-isit.org/chessisit-2024