4th place for Harokopio University

Our university received the 4th place (among 23 candidates) in the recent ranking of Greek Universities, based on the qualitative criteria set by the Hellenic Authority for Higher Education (HAHE)! Happy and proud for being part of this university!

New Year’s Cake cutting

Yesterday, after realizing a fruitful discussion with colleagues from other research organizations and industries, targeting the identification of common research synergies, our team honored the Greek custom of “cutting the New Year’s cake”. In Greece, it’s a tradition to cut a pie (the so called ‘Vasilopita’) that contains a hidden coin into pieces. The one […]

New paper | Elsevier

You can find below our recently accepted work in Elsevier Neurocomputing, entitled “Self-supervised visual learning in the low-data regime: A comparative evaluation” and authored by S. Konstantakos, J. Cani, I. Mademlis, D. I. Chalkiadaki, Y. M. Asano, E. Gavves and G. Th. Papadopoulos. Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925231224019702?via%3Dihub This paper constitutes a collaborative work between the Department of […]

New paper | IEEE TTS

You can find below our recently accepted work in IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society (IEEE TTS), entitled “The Invisible Arms Race: Digital Trends in Illicit Goods Trafficking and AI-Enabled Responses” and authored by I. Mademlis, M. Mancuso, C. Paternoster, S. Evangelatos, E. Finlay, J. Hughes, P. Radoglou-Grammatikis, P. Sarigiannidis, G. Stavropoulos, K. Votis and […]

IEEE Big Data Workshop 2024

Happy to co-chair (together with Panagiotis Sarigiannidis and Chrysostomos Symvoulidis) the “2nd workshop on Big Data Applications for Fight against Crime and Terrorism” at IEEE Big Data 2024 in Washington, D.C. The workshop is supported by the Ceasefire Project, while I am also a co-author of 6 accepted papers, which: List of papers:

Call for papers | EEITE ’25

6th International Conference in Electronic Engineering & Information Technology (technically co-sponsored by IEEE Greece Section)June 4-6, 2025Chania – Crete, Greece Special session: “Recent advancements in robotic perception, learning, interaction, communication and control technologies”🌍 Link: https://eeite.hmu.gr/special-session-2/🗓 Submission deadline: February 9, 2025 (provisional) 🚀 Supported by EU RnD projects: TRIFFID, TORNADO, SOPRANO, NANCY, TALON and INTACT 📚 […]

Invited talk | Dr. Efstratios Gavves

We were particularly honored yesterday to host Dr. Efstratios Gavves (Assoc. Prof. at University of Amsterdam) to our department for an invited talk regarding “Grounding Foundation Models in Reality with Physics- and Causality-informed World Models”. The lecture exhibited increased participation of students and researchers, stimulating also fruitful discussions and an interesting Q&A session afterwards. We […]

INVITED TALK ALERT | Dr. Efstratios Gavves

We are very happy to share that Dr. Efstratios Gavves (Assoc. Prof. at University of Amsterdam) will visit our department for an invited talk regarding “Grounding Foundation Models in Reality with Physics- and Causality-informed World Models”. Logistics:📅 Date: Thursday Nov-21, 7pm (Greece time)🏢 Location: Auditorium hall (1st floor), Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University, […]

TRIFFID Physical Kick off meeting

Happy to host today and tomorrow at the premises of the Harokopio University of Athens the kick-off meeting of TRIFFID Project (auTonomous Robotic aId For increasing FIrst responDers efficiency), where I have the honor to act as the project coordinator. Very fruitful discussions take place and looking forward to the implementation phase.

6 papers accepted to IEEE Big Data 2024

Happy to share that I am a co-author of 6 papers accepted to IEEE Big Data 2024, in the context of the “2nd workshop on Big Data Applications for Fight against Crime and Terrorism”, organized by the Ceasefire Project. The works: List of papers: