Academic Council
Panayiotis Zaphiris
Professor, Rector of CUT
Dr. Panayiotis Zaphiris is the Rector of the Cyprus University of Technology. He is a Professor at the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts, member of the Cyprus Interaction Lab (CIL), and co-founder of the Social Computing Research Centre (SCRC). He is the co-founder of the Cyprus Interaction Lab, the first and only research lab in Cyprus specializing in the areas of Human Computer Interaction and Instructional Technology in Cyprus.
Andreas Lanitis
Professor
Andreas Lanitis is currently an Associate Professor, in the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts, Cyprus University of Technology and coordinator of the Visual Media Computing Lab. Andreas received the degree of B.Eng in Electronic Engineering (1991) and PhD in Image Processing and Computer Vision (1995), both from the University of Manchester, UK.
Nicolas Tsapatsoulis
Professor
Nicolas Tsapatsoulis holds a Ph.D degree, in Image Analysis and Synthesis, from the School of Electrical and Computer Eng. of the National Technical University of Athens (2000). He joined the Department of Communication and internet Studies in January 2008 where he is now a full Professor. His research interests include multimedia information retrieval, web data mining, recommender systems, collective intelligence and affective computing.
Vasiliki Triga
Associate Professor
Dr. Vasiliki Triga holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence. From 2007 until 2011 she worked as a senior researcher at the Centre for Research on Direct Democracy (c2d) at the University of Zurich. She has been teaching as a temporary lecturer at the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich (ETHz).
Sotirios Chatzis
Associate Professor
Dr. Sotirios P. Chatzis is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Informatics, CUT. Before joining CUT he spent many years performing research with the University of Miami, USA, and the Imperial College London, U.K.
Associate Professor
Dr. Michael Sirivianos is an Associate Professor in Computer Engineering and Informatics. He holds a PhD from Duke University since 2010. His current research interests lie in the fields of security in social networks, trust-aware design of distributed systems, device-centric authentication and federated ID, large scale data processing, and discrimination based on web personal data.
Doros Polydorou
Associate Professor
Dr Doros Polydorou is an Associate Professor at Cyprus University of Technology. He is a creative coder and digital artist with a keen interest in immersive technologies and technological embodiment. Doros has worked internationally in universities in Singapore and the UK in both artistic and commercial projects. He is the co-founder of the Media Arts and Design (MAD) lab, and his current research interests explores narratives, artefacts and immersive technologies in site specific performances, installations and exhibitions.
Marinos Koutsomichalis
Assistant Professor, Acting Director of SCRC
Dr Marinos Koutsomichalis is a an Assistant Professor in Creative Multimedia where he co-directs the Media Arts and Design Research Lab. He has a PhD in Electronic Music and New Media (De Montfort University, UK) and a MA in Music Composition with Digital Media (University of York, UK).