CERTH – The Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas/Information Technologies Institute (CERTH/ITI)
Country Greece
Website www.iti.gr
The Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas (CERTH), founded in 2000, is the only research centre in Northern Greece and one of the largest in the country. CERTH has important scientific and technological achievements in many areas including Energy, Environment, Industry, Mechatronics, Information & Communication, Transportation & Sustainable Mobility, Health, Agro-biotechnology, Smart farming, safety & Security, as well as several cross disciplinary scientific areas. CERTH participates in ALAMEDA through the Information Technologies Institute (ITI), which was founded in 1998 as a non-profit organisation under the auspices of the General Secretarial of Research and Technology of Greece (GSRT), with its head office located in Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 2000 it has been a founding member of the GSRT supervised CERTH. Two labs from ITI participate in the ALAMEDA project and more specifically the Multimodal Data Fusion and Analytics Group (M4D) of the Multimedia Knowledge and Social Data Analytics laboratory (MKLab) and the Visual Analytics Lab, Virtual & Augmented Reality Lab (VARLAB).
Stefanos Vrochidis
Senior Researcher
Dr. Stefanos Vrochidis received the Diploma degree in Electrical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, the MSc degree in Radio Frequency Communication Systems from University of Southampton and the PhD degree in Electronic Engineering from Queen Mary University of London. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher (Grade C) with the Multimedia Knowledge and Social Media analytics Lab of ITI-CERTH and the Head of the Multimodal Data Fusion and Analytics (M4D) Group. His research interests include multimedia analysis and retrieval, multimodal fusion, computer vision, multimodal analytics based on artificial intelligence, semantic web, as well as media & arts, environmental, health and security applications. Dr. Vrochidis has participated in more than 35 European and National projects, with leading roles (Project Coordinator, Scientific and Technical Manager), dealing with semantic multimedia analysis and retrieval, multimodal fusion and multimodal analytics. Stefanos Vrochidis has been member of the organization team of several conferences and workshops relevant to the aforementioned research areas. He has edited 3 books and authored more than 220 related scientific journal, conference and book chapter publications. He has served as a reviewer in several international Journals and as Technical program committee in well-reputed conferences and workshops.
Konstantinos Votis
Researcher B’
Dr. Konstantinos Votis is a computer engineer and a senior researcher (Researcher Grade Β’) at Information Technologies Institute/Centre for Research and Technologies Hellas (CERTH/ITI) and Director of the Visual Analytics Laboratory of CERTH/ITI. He is also a Visting professor at the De-montfort University in UK in the filed of Human Computer Interaction, Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR). He received an MSc and a Ph.D. degree in computer science and service oriented architectures from Computer Engineering and Informatics department, University of Patras, Greece. Also he holds an MBA from the Business School department in the University of Patras. His research interests include Human Computer Interaction (HCI), information Visualisation and management of big data, knowledge engineering and decision support systems, Internet of Things, cybersecurity as well as pervasive computing, with major application areas such as mHealth, eHealth, and personalized healthcare. His PhD was in the domain of service Oriented Architecture and Information management systems in the einclusion and healthcare. Since 2001 he has published more than 100 international scientific articles on eHealth, mhealth, human-technology interaction visualisation (AR, VR, information visualisation with visual analytics), mobile and ambient technologies as well as human-centred design, etc. Since 2001, Dr. Votis has participated in 29 Research and Development projects in the fields of HCI, IoT, information Visualisation and data analytics, personal health systems, cybersecurity, blockchain, Ambient Assisted Living, e-Inclusion and big data: of which 24 are funded by the EC (6 H2020, 11 FP7 ICT, 1 FP6 IST STREP, 4 FP5 IST, 2 structural/cross border), 2 are funded by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology, 2 are cross border, and 1 is subcontract from the industry), acting both as Scientific Responsible and as the Technical Coordinator of the whole European consortium (technical coordinator of the project in 3 projects – 1 FP7 ICT, 1 H2020, and 1 Greek National project). Dr. Votis has strong expertise in managing EU and national projects especially in the ara of IoT, cybersecutiy, mHealth, as he was the technical coordinator of FP7 NoTremor, CaregiversPROMMD H2020, deputy coordinator myAirCoach H2020 (mHealth and self management), Greek pilot Leader and WP leader in Large scale IoT project ACTIVAGE in the Active and Healthy Ageing.