At VCU, Palesis has also worked on multiple Social Network Analysis projects collaborating with a team of VCU doctors and psychologists to mine a wide variety of medical records and discover how inter-professional collaboration impacts healthcare outcomes.
Prior to joining VCU, Palesis worked for 18 years as a Research Scientist at Altria Corporate Services. His main role in this position was to conduct Information Technology (IT) research, identify promising IT-based innovation opportunities, and initiate and manage cross-disciplinary IT development projects. For example, Palesis led a project which implemented a process automation expert system using fuzzy logic technology. One of his primary focus areas in this job was data-mining. Working with cross-disciplinary teams, he initiated many data-analysis and knowledge-discovery projects using machine learning, artificial neural networks, and other technologies in areas such as marketing, consumer modeling, product design, and others.
Palesis' teaching experience includes teaching both Computer Science and French as full-time faculty at Randolph-Macon College for seven years.
In his spare time, he enjoys working as an Independent Author/ePublisher focusing primarily on using new publication technologies such as e-books and audiobooks to modernize the extensive literary work his grandfather published in the first half of the 19th century.
Palesis has received both a Fulbright Scholarship and a Mellon Foundation Grant.
He is a native of Cyprus, has traveled extensively and, in addition to English, speaks fluent Greek and French.