Manolis Kaparakis did his undergraduate work in Athens, Greece and his graduate work in Economics at the University of Connecticut. He is currently the Director of Centers for Advanced Computing at Wesleyan University, where he directs the Quantitative Analysis Center and oversees the development of the Scientific Computing and Informatics Center. Previously he was a member of the economics faculty at Providence College where he taught economics for twelve years, coordinated the development of the Quantitative Economics major and served as the College's Faculty Liaison for Information Technology.