People
Faculty
Sotirios Chatzis
Associate Professor, Lab Director, and Department Chair: Prof. Sotirios Chatzis is a Computer Engineering graduate and holds a PhD in Statistical Machine Learning. He is currently Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Informatics of the Cyprus University of Technology, and serves as the elected Department Chair.
Prof. Chatzis was lucky to study alongside renowned Bayesian statistics experts with the Centre for Computational Science, University of Miami, USA. He worked with Imperial College London as a Senior Research Associate before becoming Faculty with the Cyprus University of Technology.
His research interests lie in the fields of Bayesian Deep Learning. Characteristic application areas include recommendation systems, natural language understanding, video understanding, inference from financial data, as well as unbiasedness, exploitability and trustworthiness in the era of Machine Learning.
He has served as PI of several research projects funded by the European Commission and Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF).
Doctoral Candidates
Andreas Voskou
PhD Student: Andreas holds an MSc in Computing from Imperial College London and a BSc degree in Physics from AUTH. His research interests include modelling of temporal and spatial-temporal data, Deep Learning and Bayesian nonparametric techniques. His research focuses on establishing effective and memory-efficient Deep Learning methodologies for Sign Language Processing.
Andreas Nikolaides
PhD Student: Andreas' work focuses on generative deep networks for text-to-video synthesis. His targeted methods lie on guided stochastic diffusion models for image and video generation. His work is funded from project aiD.
Konstantinos Kalais
PhD Student: Konstantinos' work revolves around transfer learning for sequential data. The thrust of his research consists in Bayesian inference methods for effective meta-learning deep networks. He has worked on the aiD project.
Theodoros Christophides
PhD Student: Mr. Theodoros Christophides, is a qualified secondary school teacher in the area of Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering and Technology as well as a qualified ECDL trainer. He has been employed in Tertiary Education Institution since 2008. He is teaching subjects related to ICT, Information Technology, Telecommunication, Computer Networks and Computer Architecture. His research interests lie in the fields of Large Language Models for Programming Education.
Panagiotis Paramithiotis
PhD Student: Passionate Data analyst-Statistician, graduated from the Athens University of Economics and Business with a Master of Science (MSc) in Statistics (applied statistics). Skilled in data analysis (data manipulation and visualization) via Python and R programming languages, as well as in Statistical-Predictive Modeling. His research interests are in the field of efficient specialization of Large Language Models via PEFT and RLHF.
