Faculty
 | Thanasis Hatzilacos (Θανάσης Χατζηλάκος)
Short Bio: Professor of Information Systems at the Open University of Cyprus (http://www.ouc.ac.cy/), director of the graduate program in Information Systems, (2007-9), born 1953. Until September 2007 he was Dean of Science and Technology at the Hellenic Open University (HOU, http://www.eap.gr/) where he served (2000-2007) as associate professor of software engineering, directed (2003-2007) the Open and Distance Laboratory for Educational Material and Educational Methodology, the graduate course on Information Systems (2003-2007) and the undergraduate Computer Science course (2001-2003). Educated at Harvard, USA (1971-76), he had substantial industrial experience before joining Computer Technology Institute (http://www.cti.gr/) in 1986, where he continues as a researcher. He was a member of the Board of Directors (1995-2007), and a director of the Educational Technology and the e-Learning Sectors and R&D Unit III "Applied Information Systems" (www.cti.gr/RD3). He has taught at the Universities of Patras and Thessaly before joining the Hellenic Open University in 2000. During 1996-2001 he designed and managed the Greek national project "Od-ysseia" (http://odysseia.cti.gr/) for the utilization of Information and Communication Technologies in secondary education. He has served as a member of the Council of Europe working group for Teaching and Learning in the Communication Society (2002-2004) and the Greek national representative to E.U. DG Education and Culture for building the European portal on educational opportunities (2002-2005). His research interests are Technology-enhanced Learning and large-scale information and database systems, in particular system design for non-standard application areas such as education, GIS, and multimedia. His real interest is people, and he is currently studying theology at HOU. |
Loizos Michael Ph.D. Harvard University, 2008 Short Bio: Loizos Michael is a Lecturer of Information Systems at Open University of Cyprus. Before joining OUC he held a Visiting Lecturer position at University of Cyprus (2008–2009). He was educated at University of Cyprus, where he received a B.Sc. in Computer Science with a minor degree in Mathematics in 2002. He continued his education at Harvard University, where he received an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2003 and 2008, respectively. His research focuses on the formal and principled understanding of cognitive processes such as learning and reasoning, and how those are employed by humans and other biological organisms in their everyday lives. Specific areas of interest include commonsense reasoning, temporal and default reasoning, computational learning theory, computational evolution theory, nature-inspired computation, distributed computation, and game theory. | |
.jpg) | Demetris Zeinalipour (Δημήτρης Ζεϊναλιπούρ) PhD University of California - Riverside, USA, 2005 Short Bio: Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti is a lecturer of Computer Science at the Open University of Cyprus. Previously, he was a visiting lecturer of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus (2005-2007). His research interests include Distributed Query Processing, Network Data Management and Storage and Retrieval Methods for Peer-to-Peer and Sensor Networks. He holds a Ph.D. (2005) and M.Sc. (2003) in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of California - Riverside and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Cyprus (2000). He has been a visiting researcher at the Network Intelligence Lab at Akamai Technologies Cambridge USA (Summer 2004) and a Research Collaborator at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus (Summer 2002). He is a referee for several scientific journals including IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, The VLDB Journal, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Elsevier's Information Sciences, Elsevier's Ad-Hoc Networks, Elsevier's Computer Communications. He has been both a referee and an external referee for several scientific conferences and workshops including ACM SIGMOD, ACM PODS, ACM SIGKDD, VLDB, WebKDD, MobiDE and DMSN. He has participated in projects funded by the US National Science Foundation: "Understanding Change in Spatiotemporal Data" (award 0220148), and "An Adaptive and Scalable Architecture for Dynamic Sensor Networks" (award #0330481) and by the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation: "An extensible Retrieval, Annotation and Caching Engine" (penek 23/2000). He currently participates in EU's CoreGRID Network of Excellence (#IST-2002-004265), EU's Marie Curie Host Fellowships for the Transfer of Knowledge "SEARCHiN: SEARCHing in a Networked world" and the internal program of the Open University of Cyprus "SenseView: An Energy Efficient Data Acquisition Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks". For more information please visit: http://is.ouc.ac.cy/~zeinalipour/ |
