C u r r i c u l u m   V i t a e

EDUCATION

1998
Diploma in Mathematics with specialty in Computational Mathematics and Informatics, Department of Mathematics, University of Patras, Greece.

2000
M.Sc. from Department of Mathematics and Department of Computer Engineering & Informatics, University of Patras, Greece, interdepartmental program of postgraduate studies “Mathematics of Computers and Decision Making”.

2005
Ph.D. from Department of Mathematics and Department of Computer Engineering & Informatics, University of Patras, Greece, interdepartmental program of postgraduate studies “Mathematics of Computers and Decision Making”.
Title of PhD thesis: “Computational Intelligence Algorithms for Numerical Optimization”.
Supervisor: Professor Michael N. Vrahatis

EMPLOYMENT

2006-2007
Lecturer 407/80 with the Department of Materials Science, University of Patras, Greece.
Scientific Collaborator with the Department of Teleinformatics and Management, Technological Educational Institution (T.E.I.) of Epirus, Greece.
2007-2008
Lecturer 407/80 with the Department of Materials Science, University of Patras, Greece.
May 2008-September 2009
Lecturer with the Department of Mathematics, University of Patras, Greece.
September 2009-Today
Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science, University of Ioannina, Greece.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Department of Computer Science, University of Ioannina, Greece
1.  Applied Linear Algebra (undergraduate course) (2010-today).
2.  Optimization (graduate course) (2009-today).
3.  Topics on Computational Mathematics: Intelligent Computational Optimization (undergraduate course) (2009-2011).
4.  Computational Mathematics (undergraduate course) (2009).

Department of Materials Science, University of Patras, Greece
1.  Informatics Ι (undergraduate course) (2006-2009).
2.  Informatics ΙΙ (undergraduate course) (2006-2008).

Department of Teleinformatics and Management, T.E.I. of Epirus, Greece
1.  Linear Algebra and Linear Programming (undergraduate course) (2006-2007).
2.  Practice in Data Structures-Algorithms (undergraduate course) (2006-2007).

Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, Greece
Mathematics II (undergraduate course) (2008).

Teaching assistance offered during 1999-2005 at the Department of Mathematics, University of Patras, Greece
1.  Numerical Solving of Ordinary Differential Equations.
2.  Numerical Solving of Systems of Nonlinear, Algebraic and Transcendental Equations.
3.  Microcomputers.
4.  Numerical Analysis I.

RESEARCH VISITS

2001 (Nov-Dec)
Visiting research fellow at Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich) “Design and Management of Complex Technical Process and Systems by Means of Computational Intelligence Methods (SFB 531)”, Department of Computer Science, University of Dortmund, Germany.

2003 (Oct)
Visiting research fellow at Institut de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Sophia-Antipolis, France.

2006 (Sep)
Visiting research fellow at Institut de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Sophia-Antipolis, France.

PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS

2003-2005
Participation in the research program PENED 2001, F.Κ. 3066, project “Analysis of Data for Dam Distortions and Landslides”, co-funded by the Greek Secretary of Research and Technology and the Public Electricity Company.
Project Supervisor: Assistant Professor Efstathios Stiros, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Patras.

2003-2006
Participation in the research project “CALAMATA (CALculs Algebriques, MATriciels et Applications)” of Institut de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Sophia-Antipolis, France.

2005-2006
Participation in the research program ARCHIMIDIS, project “Knowledge Based Reasoning Tools for Decision Support in Speech and Language Pathology”, co-funded by the European Social Fund and National Resources (EPEAEK-II). Project Supervisor: Professor Voula Georgopoulos, Department of Speech and Language Therapy, Technological Educational Institution (T.E.I.) of Patras.

FELLOSHIPS and DISTINCTIONS

1998-2000
Fellowship from the interdepartmental program of postgraduate studies “Mathematics of Computers and Decision Making”, Department of Mathematics and Department of Computer Engineering & Informatics, University of Patras, Greece.

2002
Euro-international Fellowship for young fellows, supported by the European Union (5th Framewotk Program), for participation to the 2nd Euro-International Symposium on Computational Intelligence (16-19 June 2002, Kosiče, Slovakia).

2003
Recipient of the ΙΕΕΕ Research Grant for participation to the ΙΕΕΕ 2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (8-12 December 2003, Canberra, Australia).

2007-2008
Postdoctoral fellowship from the State Scholarships Foundation of Greece (I.K.Y.).

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

English
Deutsch

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Committee Member in Scientific Conferences
1.  Member of the technical committee of the special session “Swarm Intelligence and Its Applications” at the IEEE 2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Canberra, Australia.
2.  Member of the technical committee of the special session “Swarm Intelligence” at the IEEE 2004 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Portland, Oregon, USA.
3.  Member of the technical committee of the special session “Swarm Intelligence” at the IEEE 2006 World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
4.  Member of the program committee of the IEEE 2006 Swarm Intelligence Symposium, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
5.  Member of the program committee of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2006, Washington, DC, USA.
6.  Member of the program committee of the track “Ant Colony Optimization, Swarm Intelligence, and Artificial Immune Systems” at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2007, London, UK.
7.  Member of the international program committee of the 2nd International Workshop Session on Nature-Inspired Methods-Theory and Applications, at the ΙΕΕΕ 2007 International Conference on Intelligent System Design and Applications, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
8.  Member of the program committee of the IEEE 2007 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Singapore.
9.  Member of the program committee of the International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2007), Patras, Greece.
10.  Member of the program committee of the Sixth International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2008), Brussels, Belgium.
11.  Member of the program committee of the 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008), Hong Kong.
12.  Member of the program committee of the 2009 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), Track on “Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence”, Montreal, Canada.
13.  Member of the international program committee of the 13th IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC 2009), Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
14.  Member of the program committee of the Seventh International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Brussels, Belgium.
15.  Member of the program committee of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL 2010), Paisley, Scotland.
16.  Member of the program committee of the 2010 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2010), Track on “Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence”, Portland, Oregon.
17.  Member of the international program committee of the 2010 IASTED International Conference on Portable Lifestyle Devices (PLD 2010), Marina Del Ray, USA.
18.  Member of the international program committee of the 2011 IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC 2011), Crete, Greece.
19.  Member of the program committee of the 2011 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2011), Track on “Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence”, Dublin, Ireland.
20.  Member of the program committee of the 2nd International Conference on Innovations in Bio-inspired Computing and Applications (IBICA 2011), Shenzhen, China.
21.  Member of the program committee of the Eighth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2012), Brussels, Belgium.
22.  Member of the international program committee of the 2012 IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC 2012), Napoli, Italy.

Member of Scientific Societies
1.  Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) since 1999.
2.  Member of the SIGEVO society of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since 2005.

Board Member in International Journals
1.  International Journal of Bio-Inpired Computation (editorial board member).
2.  ISRN Computational Mathematics (editorial board member).
3.  International Journal of Applied Metaheuristic Computing (editorial review board member).
4.  Applied Intelligence (review board member).
5.  International Journal of Swarm Intelligence (editorial board member).

Reviewer for International Journals
1.  ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems
2.  Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing
3.  Applied Intelligence
4.  Applied Mathematics and Computation
5.  Applied Soft Computing
6.  Asian Journal of Control
7.  Computational Optimization and Applications
8.  Computers and Operations Research
9.  European Journal of Operational Research
10.  Expert Systems
11.  IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
12.  IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
13.  IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
14.  IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B
15.  Energies
16.  Image and Vision Computing
17.  INFOR
18.  Information Fusion
19.  Information Sciences
20.  International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools
21.  International Journal of Applied Metaheuristic Computing
22.  International Journal of Computational Methods
23.  International Journal of Computers and Applications
24.  International Journal of Computer Mathematics
25.  International Journal of Engineering Intelligent Systems
26.  International Journal of Modelling and Simulation
27.  International Journal of Systems Science
28.  Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information, and Communication
29.  Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing
30.  Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
31.  Journal of Computation Science
32.  Journal of Computer Science and Technology
33.  Journal of Engineering and Technology Research
34.  Journal of the Franklin Institute
35.  Journal of Global Optimization
36.  Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
37.  Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A
38.  Language Resources and Evaluation
39.  Mathematical Problems in Engineering
40.  Mechanique & Industries
41.  Modelling and Simulation in Engineering
42.  Natural Computing
43.  Numerical Heat Transfer
44.  Optimization Letters
45.  Soft Computing
46.  Swarm and Evolutionary Computation
47.  Swarm Intelligence

Reviewer for Research Projects & International Doctorate Evaluations
1.  Research project reviewer for the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).
2.  External evaluator for the European Doctorate of Antonio L. Márquez with thesis title "On Solving Real Optimization Problems Using Pareto-based Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms" and supervisors Dr. Consolación Gil Montoya , Dr. Raúl Baños Navarro , Dr. María Dolores Gil Montoya, at Universidad de Almería, Spain.

Invited Talks
Invited Speaker on “Computational Intelligence and Applications” at the seminar “Recent Trends in Informatics and Telecommunications” organized by the Department of Teleinformatics and Management, T.E.I. of Epirus, Greece (Program EPEAEK ΙΙ), 25 October 2006.