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Faculty
Sotirios Chatzis
Associate Professor, Lab Director, and Department Chair - Member of the National AI Taskforce of the Republic of Cyprus
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 Generative 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
Mr. Andreas Nikolaides (2021-Now): Working on Denoising Diffusion Processes for medical imaging.
Mr. Angelos Afxentiou (2023-now): Working on Vision-Language models for Chain-of-Thought Human Motion Analysis.
Mr. George Nikolaou (2024-now): Working on Denoising Diffusions for style-adhering augmentation of the creatives.
Mr. George Panaretou (2024-now): Working on Denoising Diffusion Processes for image and video super-resolution.
Mr. Kyriacos Georgiou (2025-now): Working on Distilled and Quantized Denoising Diffusion Processes.
Mr. Dimitrios Ioannou (2025-now): Working on ReAct agents based on Vision-Language Models (VLMs).
