Invited talk alert | Dr. Vagelis Papakonstantinou

We are very happy to share that Dr. Vagelis Papakonstantinou (Prof. at Vrije Universiteit Brussel) will visit our department for an invited talk regarding “The Regulation of Digital Technologies in the hashtag#EU”. Logistics:đź“… Date: Friday March-28, 17:30pm (Greece time)🏢 Location: Room 2.3 (2nd floor), Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University, 9 Omirou Str., 17778, […]
New project alert | Salus

Happy to be informed today that our proposal named SALUS: “Strengthening law enforcement with advanced IoT forensic tools and enriched investigation schemes, realised by a Software Defined Network Security-as-a-Service architecture” has been selected to be funded by the EC. The proposal was submitted under call HORIZON-CL3-2024-FCT-01-01. SALUS will address the growing security challenges of IoT […]
Post-doctoral researcher vacancy (computer vision)

In the context of implementing multiple EC-funded projects, the Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University of the Harokopio University of Athens (Athens, Greece) offers a full-time vacancy for a post-doctoral researcher in the research field of computer vision (with application in vertical domains such as robotics, remote sensing, AR and security). The position is […]
TRIFFID 2nd Plenary Meeting – Day 2

That’s a wrap on the TRIFFID 2nd Plenary Meeting! On Thursday, March 6th, and Friday, March 7th, we made incredible progress in defining user requirements, strengthening work package collaborations, and advancing the TRIFFID system’s development. The visit to GB’s operational premises provided invaluable real-world context to our work.A huge thank you to our partners for […]
TRIFFID 2nd Plenary Meeting – Day 1 Recap

Today, our partners gathered in Rotterdam to discuss key developments in the TRIFFID project. We covered progress updates across multiple work packages, tackled open challenges, and set the course for the next three months. 🔥 A major highlight was the deep dive into user requirements and defining crucial use cases, including: 🌲 Wildfire at the […]
Call for papers | IEEE BigDataService 2025

Please consider the publication venue below, where I serve as a program committee member and my colleague Iraklis Varlamis as a general chair. Call for Papers – IEEE BigDataService 2025July 21-24, 2025 | Tucson, Arizona, USASubmit now: https://conf.researchr.org/track/cisose-2025/bigdataservice-2025 The 11th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Computing Service & Machine Learning Applications is calling for […]
News alert

Thrilled to share that part of our work on handling data heterogeneity in federated learning-based intrusion detection systems has been adopted as a new baseline by Flower Labs! Particular thanks to Panagiotis Radoglou Grammatikis, PhD and Panagiotis Sarigiannidis (and remaining colleagues) for leading the initiative and involving me! Paper: P.S. Bouzinis, P. Radoglou-Grammatikis, I. Makris, […]
Call for papers | IEEE AI STANDARD 2025

Please check the initiative below, where I will serve as a co-chair of the “Computer vision” vertical and my colleague Iraklis Varlamis as a program committee co-chair. IEEE International Conference on AI Standardization and Quality Assurance 2025 (IEEE AI STANDARD 2025)Santa Clara, California, USAMay 5-7, 2025Participation type: Both physical and remoteCo-located with IEEE Conference on […]
New Paper

You can find below our recently accepted work in the prestigious Springer Artificial Intelligence Review (5-year journal impact factor: 11.7), entitled “Advances in diffusion models for image data augmentation: a review of methods, models, evaluation metrics and future research directions” and authored by P. Alimisis, I. Mademlis, P. Radoglou-Grammatikis, P. Sarigiannidis and G. Th. Papadopoulos. […]
TORNADO Physical Kick off meeting

Happy to participate today and tomorrow, along with other colleagues from HUA computer vision group, to the kick-off meeting of project TORNADO (foundaTion mOdels for Robots that haNdle smAll, soft and Deformable Objects), hosted by ITML in Athens, Greece. I am also honoured to serve as the deputy project coordinator. Looking forward to the implementation […]