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KLEPTOTRACE final event
Two years investigating complex networks. Designing tools. Spreading knowledge. And most importantly, building a strong, cross-border crew. Thank you, KLEPTOTRACE

Kick-off meeting project FORTIFY
Happy to be invited to participate today and tomorrow to the kick-off meeting of the ISF project FORTIFY in Madrid,

A New Era for AI Research
We are pleased to announce the arrival of the Dell PowerEdge XE9680 with 8 NVIDIA H200 GPUs and the Dell

Invited talk | Dr. Vagelis Papakonstantinou
Happy to host today Dr. Vagelis Papakonstantinou (Prof. at Vrije Universiteit Brussel) at Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University

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

New project alert | Salus
Happy to be informed today that our proposal named SALUS: “Strengthening law enforcement with advanced IoT forensic tools and enriched

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

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

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

News alert
Thrilled to share that part of our work on handling data heterogeneity in federated learning-based intrusion detection systems has been

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

New Paper
You can find below our recently accepted work in the prestigious Springer Artificial Intelligence Review (5-year journal impact factor: 11.7),

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

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

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

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

New paper | IEEE TTS
You can find below our recently accepted work in IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society (IEEE TTS), entitled “The Invisible

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

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

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

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

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

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

GANNDALF Kick off meeting
Happy to participate today and tomorrow to the kick-off meeting of project GANNDALF (A Ground-breAking collaboratioN framework realizing the next

ARMADILLO kick-off meeting
Happy to participate on the 3rd and 4th of October to the kick-off meeting of project ARMADILLO (Accurate Reliable Portable

BSc thesis defence
I am thrilled and proud to congratulate Jorgen C. on successfully defending today his BSc thesis entitled “Scan image analysis

Applied Federated Model Personalization in the Industrial Domain
You can find below our recently published journal article in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, entitled “Applied Federated

TRIFFID Virtual Kick off meeting
Yesterday and today we organized the (virtual) kick-off meeting of project TRIFFID (auTonomous Robotic aId For increasing FIrst responDers efficiency),

Research results of the Department of Information and Telematics
Today several of our group members participated in the seminar series “Research results of the Department of Information and Telematics”,

New paper
You can find below our recently accepted work in IEEE Access, entitled “Multimodal Explainable Artificial Intelligence: A Comprehensive Review of

Researcher’s Night 2024
Our group will participate in the ‘Researcher’s Night 2024’ event, as part of the Harokopio University of Athens team! The

We are back
… summer vacations 🏝 are over, so back 🏁 to our periodic bi-weekly team meetings 🚀🔥!!

(Greek-speaking) seminar alert
The HUA computer vision group is organizing a half-day event, as part of the Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio

New paper
You can find below our recently accepted work at IEEE Access regarding “Distributed Maze Exploration Using Multiple Agents and Optimal

Ceasefire 5th physical plenary meeting
We’re thrilled to share that our 5th physical plenary meeting was a success! Our team came together in Heraklion, Greece,

Advances in Diffusion Models for Image Data Augmentation
You can find below (in arXiv format) our recent work on “Advances in Diffusion Models for Image Data Augmentation: A

Technical description of the Ceasefire system and its use-cases
You can check in the article below a technical description of the technologies behind the Ceasefire Project platform that aims

New project alert | TORNADO
Happy to be informed today that our proposal named TORNADO: “foundaTion mOdels for Robots that haNdle smAll, soft and Deformable

Computer Vision group
You can find below the LinkedIn page of our Computer Vision group at the Department of Informatics and Telematics of

Call for papers | Big Data 2024
IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2024 December 15-18, 2024Washington DC, USA(remote participation is possible) Workshop title: “2nd workshop on

EEITE 2024 conference presentation
Happy to deliver today a keynote speech at international conference in Electronic Engineering, Information Technology & Education (EEITE) 2024 conference,

Ceasefire project Youtube channel
The Ceasefire project now has its own Youtube channel! Check it out at here and subscribe!

SMI2G 2024
Happy to participate to this year’s SMI2G brokerage event in Paris, looking forward during these 2 days to discuss ideas

Ceasefire 1st Review
Yesterday the Ceasefire project underwent its formal review for the first reporting period. The consortium members successfully demonstrated the achieved

Plenary speech at the forthcoming EEITE’24 conference
Happy to share that I will be delivering a plenary speech at the forthcoming EEITE’24 conference (https://eeite2024.hmu.gr/), entitled “Deployment of

Ceasefire Tools & Use Case Demonstration – Part A – Online Training
Stay tuned for news about the hashtag Ceasefire project’s “Ceasefire Tools & Use Case Demonstration – Part A – Online

Speaker at the Codeweek event
Happy to participate as a speaker to the Codeweek event (organized by kariera.gr Group), where I will present recent technological

Open Days HUA 2024
On the 27th and 28th of March, the research team of HUA presented scientific results of the Ceasefire project, during

3 successful EC-funded security proposals
Happy to share that in the recent call for EC-funded security proposals, I have been involved in the following 3

Call for papers | EEITE ’24
5th International Conference in Electronic Engineering Information Technology & Education (EEITE’24)May 29-31, 2024Chania, Crete, Greece Special session title: Modern Biometric