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Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis

Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis

Academic Research Partner


Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis is Assistant Professor in the department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Technical University of Crete, Greece. He received the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from the University of California, San Diego, in 2013 and 2010, respectively, and his diploma in Electrical & Computer Engineering from National Technical University of Athens in 2007. From 2017 to 2019 he was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow and from 2014 to 2017 he was a research associate in the department of Production Engineering & Management at Technical University of Crete, Greece. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley from 2013 to 2014. Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis has authored/coauthored 1 book and about 100 papers. His interests are in delay systems, distributed parameter systems, nonlinear control, and their applications. He serves as Associate Editor for Automatica. Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis received the Chancellor’s Dissertation Medal in Engineering (best Ph.D. dissertation award in engineering) from University of California San Diego, in 2014 and is the recipient of a 2016 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship Grant.

Aggelos Bletsas

Aggelos Bletsas

Academic Research Partner


Aggelos Bletsas received with excellence his five-year Diploma degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1998, and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory in 2001 and 2005, respectively. He has worked at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), first as summer intern and later as Postdoctoral Fellow and he has collaborated with Radio Communications Laboratory (RCL), Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, as a visiting scientist. Since summer of 2009, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece and affiliated researcher with Telecommunication Systems Institute (TSI). His research interests span the broad area of scalable wireless communication and networking, with emphasis on relay techniques, ultra-low cost backscatter sensor networks, signal processing for communication, radio hardware/software implementations for low cost embedded networks, RFID, time/frequency metrology and bibliometrics. He received best undergraduate thesis award in 1999 from Ericsson for the development of a complete text-to-speech system for the Greek language, and he was a recipient of a BT Fellowship Award and a Nortel Networks Fellowship Award from 2000 to 2005. Dr. Bletsas was the co-recipient of IEEE Communications Society 2008 Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications, best paper distinction in IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), September 2009, Siena, Italy, best student paper award in IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology & Applications (RFID-TA), September 2011, Sitges, Spain, best paper distinction in IEEE Sensors Conference (SENSORS), November 2013, Baltimore, USA, best student paper award-SPCOM track and conference-wide best student paper award, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), April 2015, Brisbane, Australia, best student paper award in IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology and Applications (RFID-TA), September 2017, Warsaw, Poland and best student paper award in IEEE International Conference on Modern Circuits and System Technologies for Electronics and Communications (MOCAST), May 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece. He is also proud of his students who were winners for two consecutive years of the 2009-2011 and 2011-2012 best Diploma Thesis contest among all Greek Universities on “Advanced Wireless Systems”, awarded by IEEE VTS/AES joint Greek Chapter. He has received several grants, financing his graduate students. He has been evaluated positively by the European Research Council (ERC) 3rd Starting Grant Call call (2009-2010). In December 2013, he was the recipient of the 2012-2013 Technical Univ. of Crete Research Excellence Award.

Matthias Bucher

Matthias Bucher

Academic Research Partner


Matthias Bucher was born in Switzerland in 1964. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1993 and 1999, respectively. The subject of his Ph.D. Thesis was the analytical charge-based compact modelling of MOSFETs. In 1997, he was an invited researcher with LSI Logic, Milpitas, California. From 2000 to 2003, he was a visiting researcher at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens, Greece, and held numerous consulting mandates in microelectronics industry. In February 2004, he joined the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete (TUC), Chania, Greece, as an Assistant Professor. His current research interests are in the design of analogue/RF integrated circuits, and in wide-band characterization and advanced compact modelling of single- and multi-gate nanoscale CMOS as well as high-voltage MOS devices. He also has coordinated the EKV3 MOSFET compact model code development. He is a member of the IEEE and of the Technical Chamber of Greece. He is an author or co-author of over 45 publications in international journals and conferences, as well as of two book chapters.

Apostolos Dollas

Apostolos Dollas

Academic Research Partner


Apostolos Dollas, received his Ph.D. in CS from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (1987).  He is currently Full Professor of ECE at the Technical University of Crete (TUC) in Chania, Greece, a member of the CARV group of the Institute of Computer Science of FORTH (Irakleio), and a board member of the Telecommunication Systems Institute (Chania). At TUC, A. Dollas has served as Dean of the School of ECE (2013-2017), Director of the Microprocessor and Hardware Lab (1994-2009), and ECE Dept. Chairman (1995-1997). He is also a Senior Research Associate in the CARV group of the Institute of Computer Science at the Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH) (1994-1996, 2017-present). He has been Assistant Professor of ECE and CS at Duke University (1986-1994). He conducts research and teaches in reconfigurable computing, embedded systems, and application-specific high-performance computer architectures, with emphasis on fully functional prototypes. Dollas is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of the HKN and TBΠ honorary societies and has received the IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member Award, and the Meritorious Service Award. He is co-founder of several international conferences, including FCCM, FPT, RSP, SASP, and TAI, and serves in several international conference program committees, including FPL (2011 General co-Chair); he is co-inventor in two issued US Patents.

Dionisios Hristopulos

Dionisios Hristopulos

Academic Research Partner


Professor Dionissios Hristopulos (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technical University of Crete) holds a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (1985), and a PhD in Physics from Princeton University, USA (1991). At Princeton he worked in the Condensed Matter Physics group of Nobel laureate Philip W. Anderson. He served in the Greek military at the Tanagra Air Force combat wing (1991-1992). He then joined the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering of the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, USA) as post-doctoral research associate (1993-1995) and as Research Assistant Professor (1995-2000). After that he worked as Research Scientist at the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada (2000-2002) before moving to the Technical University of Crete (TUC) as Associate Professor in the School of Mineral Resources Engineering in 2002. He was promoted to Full Professor in 2007. In the summer of 2013 he was visiting Professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University.

Dionissios is the coauthor of about 200 publications (journal articles, conference proceedings and abstracts, and technical reports) and the book “Spatiotemporal Environmental Health Modelling”. His recent book titled “Random Fields for Spatial Data Modeling’’ was published by Springer in 2020. Dionissios is Associate Editor for the journals Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment published by Springer and Computers and Geosciences, published by Elsevier. He has served as Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Mineral Resources Engineering at TUC from 2004 to 2009 and as Member of the University Council of the Technical University of Crete. He has coordinated and participated in national and European research projects, and he was awarded the Johannes A. Van den Akker Prize for Advances in Paper Physics in 2003 (jointly with Tetsu Uesaka). He has served on the organization and scientific committees of international conferences in Spatial Statistics and Statistical Physics. Dionissios is a member of the American Physical Society and the International Association of Mathematical Geosciences.

His current research interests include the development of new methods for spatiotemporal data modeling with applications in energy resources estimation and the analysis of environmental hazards, algorithms for the simulation and interpolation of gappy data from earth-based and remote sensing observations, applications of Time Series analysis, the application of methods and ideas from Statistical Physics to problems in Neuroscience, and applications of Machine Learning to environmental problems.

Sotiris Ioannidis

Sotiris Ioannidis

Academic Research Partner


Sotiris Ioannidis is a faculty member at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technical University of Crete, and also Affiliated Researcher with the Institute of Computer Science at the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas.

His research interests include systems, networks, and security.

Kostas Kalaitzakis

Kostas Kalaitzakis

Academic Research Partner


Dr. Kostas Kalaitzakis was born in Chania-Crete-Greece in 1954. He received his degree in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens/Greece (NTUA) in 1977 and his PhD from the School of Electrical Engineering of the Democritus Univ. of Thrace/Greece in 1983. He is currently Professor in the Technical Univ. of Crete/Greece. He served as Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology/USA.

Fotios Kanellos

Fotios Kanellos

Academic Research Partner


Fotios D. Kanellos was born in 1975 in Agrinio, Greece. He graduated from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of National Technical University of Athens in 1998 and received the PhD degree from the same School in 2003. He is Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Technical University of Crete, specialized in Generation, Transmission and Distribution Electrical Systems. He is the author of more than 100 scientific papers published in international and national journals and conferences. He acts as a reviewer for several international scientific journals, as: IEEE trans. on Energy Conversion, IEEE trans. on Sustainable Energy, IEEE trans. on Power Systems, International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, IET Renewable Power Generation, Electric Power Systems Research, Solar Energy, European Transactions on Electrical Power etc.

Eftichios Koutroulis

Eftichios Koutroulis

Academic Research Partner


Eftichios Koutroulis was born in Chania, Greece, in 1973. He received his Diploma, M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Crete, in 1996, 1999 and 2002, respectively. From September 2002 he has served as an Adjunct Lecturer and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete. He also worked as a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University (Aalborg, Denmark). During January 2012-July 2016 he has been an Assistant Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, while since July 2016 he serves as an Associate Professor in the same School. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Renewable Energy journal (since April 2011) and a Senior Member of ΙΕΕΕ (since July 2015).

Dionysia Kolokotsa

Dionysia Kolokotsa

Academic Research Partner


Education

  • 2001: Ph.D.: Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete
  • 1995: MSc: Architecture Environmental design and engineering, Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, University College London (UCL).
  • 1994: Postgraduate degree in Meteorology – Environmental Physics, School of Science, Faculty of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
  • 1991: Degree in Physics, School of Science, Faculty of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Research Interests

Conducting research on energy saving in buildings and in built environment:

  • Quality of internal environment: thermal and visual comfort. Air quality. Energy demand.
  • Assessment Indexes for energy saving in buildings. Green buildings. Zero emission buildings.
  • Urban environment and climate change. Urban heat island phenomenon. Technologies to improve quality.
  • Energy management systems. Measurement and control of microclimatic conditions of the built environment.
  • Design and installation of environmental monitoring networks in buildings and urban environments.