Short Resume

[Research Interests]

Artificial Intelligence, CommonSense Knowledge Acquisition, Story Understanding, Crowdsourcing, Human Computation, Natural Language Processing, New Technologies and Trends in eLearning, Open Data

[Honors and Awards]

  • Best paper award at the 25th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning for the paper titled “Creating Environmental Awareness in Education through IoT and Gamification”
  • 2nd Place in the Graph Drawing Creative Topics Competition – 27th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, Průhonice/Prague, September 17-20, 2019
  • 1st Position in Cyprus Robotex 2019 Competition (Engino Mini Challenge) – Trainer
  • 1st Position in Cyprus Robotex 2018 Competition (Engino Mini Challenge) – Trainer
  • 1st Position in Cyprus Robotex 2017 Competition (Line Following challenge) – Participant
  • Best Paper presentation Award in the 8th European Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS) for the paper “A Hybrid Approach to Commonsense Knowledge Acquisition”
  • Scholarship for the 1st year of postgraduate studies from the Hellenic State Scholarships Foundation (1st with overall score 9.60 out of 10)

[Education]

 Open University of Cyprus, Latsia, Nicosia, Cyprus

  • Ph.D. Information and Communication Systems – Computational Cognition / Artificial intelligence

University of Patras, Department of Mathematics, Rion, Patra, Greece

  • M.Sc. Computational Mathematics – Informatics in Education (Major: IT and Communications in Education)
  • B.Sc. Mathematics (Major: Computational Mathematics and Informatics)

[Publications]

A detailed list of publications is available here

[Teaching]

  • Undergraduate course Web Engineering (CEI326) – Cyprus University of Technology
  • Undergraduate course Software and Problem Solving (CIS108) – Cyprus University of Technology
  • Undergraduate course Introduction to Programming Languages II (MEM114) – Cyprus University of Technology
  • Undergraduate course Introduction to Programming Languages I (MEM111) – Cyprus University of Technology
  • Postgraduate course Natural Language Processing (COS524) – Open University of Cyprus

[Funded Research Projects]

  • TEASPILS – Teaching Environmental Awareness with Smart IoT Planters in Learning Spaces [website]
  • ImTech4Ed – Immersive Technologies for Education (KA203-799974A4) [website]
  • WeNet – Internet of Us (funded by the EU’s Horizon2020 programme under Grant Agreement number 823783) [website]
  • Enlivened Laboratories within STEM Education (EL-STEM / Erasmus+ 2017-1-CY01-KA201-026775) [website]
  • European Network for Combining Language Learning with Crowdsourcing Techniques (COST – CA16105 ) [website]
  • I-CARE Project (i-Care / Erasmus+ 2015-1-EL01-KA202-014051) [website]
  • EMPOWER Project [website]
  • eUniversity – Development of the Open University of Cyprus’ Technological Infrastructure [website]
  • Teleprometheus – E-Learning Platform of Intensive Care Units Health Professionals, Patients and their Families [website]
  • Grundtvig Lifelong Learning Courses [website][info]
  • Revit – Revitalizing Small Remote Schools for LifeLong Distance e-Learning [website][info]
  • TICTC – Teachers’ ICT competences – a way to effective learning for children with hearing difficulties [website][info]
  • INTERCOM: Un programme d’apprentissage pour la promotion de l’intercomprehension en Europe [info]
  • OBELFA – Open Blended eLearning for Adults [website][info]

[Languages]

  • English
  • Greek (native language)

[Certifications]

  • CPT Certified Penetration Tester
  • Moodle Educator  Certificate (MEC)
  • Moodle Course Creator Certification (MCCC)
  • The Interaction Design Foundation

[Professional and Academic Service]

Chair

  • 3rd International Workshop on User-Oriented Logic Paradigms (IULP2019)

Scientific Advisory Board

  • 8th annual International Conference of Education, Research, and Innovation [2015]

Reviewer

  • Online Handbook of Argumentation for AI (Volume 3)
  • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Journal
  • 25th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL2022)
  • Sustainability Journal
  • Information Journal
  • Future Internet Journal
  • Big Data and Cognitive ComputingJournal
  • Heliyon Journal
  • Journal of Web Engineering
  • Online Handbook of Argumentation for AI (Volume 2)
  • The AAAI-21 Workshop on Explainable Agency in Artificial Intelligence
  • IEEE 23rd International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)
  • 10th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI)
  • 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART)
  • IJCAI 2016 Workshop on Cognitive Knowledge Acquisition and Applications (COGNITUM)
  • 8th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI)
  • IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI)
  • 8th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN)
  • 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)
  • IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI)
  • International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (CIS2E)

Expert Contributor/Consultant/Evaluator

  • COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) evaluator
  • Member of the College of Expert Reviewers of the European Science Foundation (ESF)
  • Member of the Republic of Cyprus Open Science Experts Committee
  • Member of the group of experts’ for preparing the Republic of Cyprus National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence
  • Member of the Republic of Cyprus Open Data team
  • Member of the EADTU EMPOWER team of experts on knowledge resources

Society and Professional Body Memberships

Hackathons

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