Christos Diou

diou [at] mug.ee.auth.gr +30-2310-994376

Education

2010 – PhD, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Thesis: Semantic Analysis of Multimedia Data with Machine Learning. Grade: Excellent.

2004 – Diploma of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Grade: 8.35/10.

Professional Experience

2011-today – Research fellow, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Project: BigO – Big Data against Childhood Obesity, H2020-727688

Roles: Project innovation manager, WP4 leader (Analytics and visualisation engine)

Project: SPLENDID – Personalised Guide for Eating and Activity Behaviour for the Prevention of Obesity and Eating Disorders, FP7-610749

Role: WP leader (information processing and inference)

2011-2013 – Postdoctoral research associate, Center for Research and Technology Hellas / Informatics and Telematics Institute

Project: CASSANDRA – A multivariate platform for assessing the impact of strategic decisions in electrical power systems, FP7-228429

Role: Member of the project coordinating team (day-to-day technical project coordination and communication activities), research on low-power consumer modelling

2006-2010 – Research associate, Center for Research and Technology Hellas / Informatics and Telematics Institute

Project: VITALAS – Video and Image Indexing and Retrieval in the Large Scale, FP6-045389-IP

Role: Researcher (cross-media audiovisual concept detectors)

Project: ASSIST – ASsociation Studies assisted by Inference and Semantic Technologies IST-4-027510-STP

Role: Researcher (system architecture, semantic unification of medical archives)

2005-2008 – Computer Engineer, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki / Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Project: PYTHAGORAS – Remote Controlled Intelligent Robot in an Augmented Reality Environment

Role: Software developer

07/2003-09/2003 – Computer Engineer, P.I.T. Telecommunications Research Institute / Warsaw division

Project: Development of an automatic radar tracking system operating under high clutter conditions

Role: Researcher

Teaching Experience

2018-2019 – Adjunct Lecturer, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Postgraduate Course: Machine learning

2017-2018 – Training instructor, Veltio

Training course: Machine learning

2016-2017 – Adjunct LecturerElectrical and Computer Engineering Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Undergraduate Course: Multimedia Systems and Virtual Reality

2015-2016, 2016-2017 – Adjunct Lecturer, Interdepartmental Post-graduate Programme on Learning Technologies / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Postgraduate Course: Human-Computer Interaction

2015-2016, 2016-2017 – Adjunct Lecturer, Interdepartmental Post-graduate Programme on Advanced Computer and Communication Systems / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Postgraduate Course: Multimedia Systems and Graphics Supervision of one Masters Thesis

2005-2006, 2008-2009 – Teaching Assistant, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Course: Analysis and Design of Algorithms.

2005-2006, 2008-2009 – Teaching Assistant, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Course: Computer Systems.

Theses

Co-supervised over 15 diploma theses at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Awards

2012 – Postdoctoctoral research fellow, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

2005-2008 – Three-year post-graduate research scholarship, Greek State Scholarships Foundation

2005 – Award from the Technical Chamber of Greece for excellence in the academic year 2003-2004

1999 Greek State Scholarships Foundation award for best performance in admission exams for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Memberships

Member of IEEE and the Computer Society

Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE)

Member of the Post Graduate Students Association of Dept.ECE, AUTh

Program Committee Member in International Conferences

Reviewer in International Journals

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

IEEE Access

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Multimedia Tools and Applications

ACM-Springer Multimedia Systems

MDPI Sensors

Energy efficiency

International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering

Reviewer in International Conferences

Publications

You can find Christos’ publications here