Efraimidis Pavlos, Professor, EECE, DUTH
He is a Professor of Computer Science at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Democritus University of Thrace (Greece) and an Adjunct Researcher of the Athena Research Center. He received his PhD in Informatics in 2000 from the University of Patras and the diploma of Computer Engineering and Informatics from the same university in 1995. His main work is on algorithms and his current research interests are in the fields of design and analysis of algorithms, graph theory, network analysis, federated machine learning, algorithmic game theory, and algorithmic aspects of privacy. He has published over 65 refereed research papers, book chapters, and has participated in over 15 national and European research projects. He is a member of ACM, IEEE and EATCS, and is affiliated with the Athena Research Center. His past industrial experience includes working as a computer engineer in the high-performance computing field (Parsytec Computer GmbH, Aachen, Germany) and in the financial sector (ASYK – Athens Stock Exchange, Athens, Greece).
Ioannakis George-Alexis, Assistant Researcher, ILSP, ATHENA RC
He received his Diploma (B.Eng, M.Eng) in Rural and Surveying Engineering of the Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) in 2011. In 2018, he received his PhD degree from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE) of the Democritus University of Thrace (DUTh) in the research domain of “Signal, Image and 3D Object Processing, Content-Based Retrieval, Computational geometry and topology, and Machine Learning”. Currently, he is a lecturer of the postgraduate course “Machine Learning” in the MSc in Language Technology, that is served in collaboration with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and ATHENA RC, and he assists in the teaching process of the course “Pattern Recognition” at EECE, DUTH.
Kavakiotis Ioannis, Head of Biomedical Data Science and Bioinformatics Unit, DUTH
He is head of “Biomedical Data Science and Bioinformatics” Unit at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace. He holds a PhD degree (2016) in Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery from Biological and Biomedical Data. He also holds a BS degree in Informatics (2008) and three MSc degrees – the first in Information Systems (School of Informatics, AUTh, 2010), the second in Applied Genetics and Biotechnology (School of Biology, AUTh, 2015) and the third in Medical Informatics (School of Medicine, AUTh, 2020). Furthermore, he has been awarded four fellowships from Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), State Scholarships Foundation (IKY), Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society (ΕΕΤΝ) and Research Committee of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His research interests are focused in Bioinformatics and Artificial Intelligence methods specialized for Biological and Biomedical data. During his research career he has worked in 7 European and national funded scientific projects.
Kaldoudi Eleni, Professor, School of Medicine, DUTH
Her research interests include medical imaging and telematics applications in health and education. Since 2002, she has taken on the autonomous and independent teaching of the course “Physics in Biological Sciences” and the course “Internet in Health”, while she also participates in the teaching of the course “Medical Physics” in the School of Medicine, DUTH as well as in a number of postgraduate programs . She received her BSc in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1987), MSc in Medical Physics from the University of Surrey, UK (1989) and PhD from University College London, University of London, UK (1994). She is a member of the Copyright Committee of the Democritus University of Thrace and President-Elect of the European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering & Science (EAMBES).
Katsouros Vassilis, Research Director, ILSP, ATHENA RC
He is the Director of Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) at the Athena Research Center (ATHENA RC) since June 2019. He received his M.Eng. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 1992. In 1993 he obtained the M.Sc. with distinction in Communications and Signal Processing from Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, University of London, UK. In 1997 he received his Ph.D. degree in Mathematical modelling and Stochastic Control from Imperial College. His research interest involves digital signal processing, statistics analysis, machine learning and artificial intelligence. He has supervised doctor thesis and postgraduate thesis as well as teaches in postgraduate programs in his research subjects.
Kiourt Chairi, Assistant Researcher, ILSP, ATHENA RC
Ηe received his BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the Electrical Engineering Department of the Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology, Greece ιn 2007. In 2010, he also received an MSc in System Engineering and Management in the specialty area: Information and Communication Systems Management from the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. In 2017, received his PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering from the Hellenic Open University, School of Science and Technology. He currently teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the International Hellenic University (IHU) and the Hellenic Open University.
Pistofidis Petros, Scientific Associate, ILSP, ATHENA RC
He received his Diploma in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras in 2005. He then was awarded a full scholarship from the Students Awards Agency Scotland and in 2006 obtained his master’s degree in computer science from the Informatics School of the University of Edinburgh. In 2016 he successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled “Technologies and Systems for Remote Monitoring and Diagnosis Support”, supervised by Professor Pantelis Botsaris from the Production Engineering and Management (PME) department of the Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH). From 2008 until today, he has been working as a scientific associate with the Athena Research Center, participating in the writing, technical management, and implementation of national and European research projects. His research interests include the Internet of Things, cloud analytics technologies, intelligent tracking systems, metadata management systems, and rapid prototyping with 3D printing technologies.
Pouliliou Stamatia, Post-Doctoral Researcher, School of Medicine, DUTH
She is post-doctoral researcher at the School of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH) in Alexandroupoli (Greece). She holds a degree in Biology (2008, University of Patras), an MSc in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (2011, DUTH) and a PhD in Radiotherapy and Oncology, School of Medicine, with emphasis on the development of evaluation methods of the internal radiosensitivity and cytoprotective action of amifostine in cancer patients under radiotherapy (2014, DUTH). She has participated as postdoctoral researcher in 2 Greek national projects (Metaboli-CA and TALK project), as a study coordinator in a multicenter, randomized, open-label, parallel group study (LPS14584 (Sanofi), DUTH site) and as a pilot leader in a randomized, single-blind, controlled study (CARRE EU FP7-ICT, Project DUTH site). Furthermore, she has experience in a broad range of molecular, cellular and biochemistry techniques, a substantial troubleshooting capacity, a very good initiative in research and excellent skills in organizing and work planning.
Rantos Konstantinos, Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, IHU
He is an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department of the International Hellenic University (IHU) of Greece and Director of the Web Services and Information Security Lab. He received his Diploma in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras, Greece, and both his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Information Security (sponsored by Marie Curie Research and Training Grant) from Royal Holloway, University of London. He has extensive research and development project involvement and substantial (more than 20 years) private- and public-sector experience in the area of information security. He participated in many national as well as research and development projects under EU ACTS, CIP LSPs, ARTEMIS JU, FP7, and H2020 programmes. He has also served as a scientific supervisor and has managed more than 20 development and consulting projects providing services to key private and public sector bodies. He has been a representative of Greece in European working groups on issues of authentication, digital signatures and e-government. He (co-)authored many articles in international scientific journals, book and conference chapters, and acts as a reviewer to a number of conferences and scientific journals. His research interests are in the areas of cybersecurity, Internet of Things security, authentication systems, and privacy.
Fiska Aliki, Professor, School of Medicine, DUTH
She received a Medical Degree from the School of Medicine of the Democritus University of Thrace in 1992 and in 1996 she received a Doctoral Thesis from the School of Medicine of the Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH). In 1999, she received her specialty as a Pathologist. She has been a faculty member of the School of Medicine, DUTH since 2000 and Head of the Anatomy and Clinical Anatomy Laboratory in the same department. Her research interests focus on anatomy, clinical-surgical anatomy, anatomic pathology, electron microscopy and the history of medicine. Additionally, she is Director of the Master’s Program in “Clinical-Surgical Anatomy” of the School of Medicine, DUTH.