2025-10-212025-10-21https://hdl.handle.net/11128/9475Christos Rodosthenous Ph.D, M.Sc., B.Sc. Short Resume [Research Interests] Artificial Intelligence, CommonSense Knowledge Acquisition, Story Understanding, Crowdsourcing, Human Computation, Natural Language Processing, New Technologies and Trends in eLearning, Gamification, Open Data [Honors and Awards] Best paper award at the 25th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning for the paper titled “Creating Environmental Awareness in Education through IoT and Gamification” 2nd Place in the Graph Drawing Creative Topics Competition – 27th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, Průhonice/Prague, September 17-20, 2019 1st Position in Cyprus Robotex 2019 Competition (Engino Mini Challenge) – Trainer 1st Position in Cyprus Robotex 2018 Competition (Engino Mini Challenge) – Trainer 1st Position in Cyprus Robotex 2017 Competition (Line Following challenge) – Participant Best Paper presentation Award in the 8th European Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS) for the paper “A Hybrid Approach to Commonsense Knowledge Acquisition” Scholarship for the 1st year of postgraduate studies from the Hellenic State Scholarships Foundation (1st with overall score 9.60 out of 10) [Education] Open University of Cyprus, Latsia, Nicosia, Cyprus Ph.D. Information and Communication Systems – Computational Cognition / Artificial intelligence Master in Business Administration (MBA) University of Patras, Department of Mathematics, Rion, Patra, Greece M.Sc. Computational Mathematics – Informatics in Education (Major: IT and Communications in Education) B.Sc. Mathematics (Major: Computational Mathematics and Informatics) [Publications] A detailed list of publications is available here [Teaching] Undergraduate course Web Engineering (CEI326) – Cyprus University of Technology Undergraduate course Software and Problem Solving (CIS108) – Cyprus University of Technology Undergraduate course Introduction to Programming Languages II (MEM114) – Cyprus University of Technology Undergraduate course Introduction to Programming Languages I (MEM111) – Cyprus University of Technology Postgraduate course Natural Language Processing (COS524) – Open University of Cyprus [Funded Research Projects] Global Network on Large-Scale, Cross-domain and Multilingual Open Knowledge Graphs (COST – CA23147) [website] Computational Techniques for Tabletop Games Heritage (COST – CA22145) [website] TEASPILS – Teaching Environmental Awareness with Smart IoT Planters in Learning Spaces [website] ImTech4Ed – Immersive Technologies for Education (KA203-799974A4) [website] WeNet – Internet of Us (funded by the EU’s Horizon2020 programme under Grant Agreement number 823783) [website] Enlivened Laboratories within STEM Education (EL-STEM / Erasmus+ 2017-1-CY01-KA201-026775) European Network for Combining Language Learning with Crowdsourcing Techniques (COST – CA16105 ) [website] I-CARE Project (i-Care / Erasmus+ 2015-1-EL01-KA202-014051) [website] EADTU EMPOWER Project eUniversity – Development of the Open University of Cyprus’ Technological Infrastructure Teleprometheus – E-Learning Platform of Intensive Care Units Health Professionals, Patients and their Families [website] Grundtvig Lifelong Learning Courses Revit – Revitalizing Small Remote Schools for LifeLong Distance e-Learning TICTC – Teachers’ ICT competences – a way to effective learning for children with hearing difficulties INTERCOM: Un programme d’apprentissage pour la promotion de l’intercomprehension en Europe OBELFA – Open Blended eLearning for Adults [Languages] English Greek (native language) [Certifications] Certified ISO 27001 Lead Implementer (CIL) CPT Certified Penetration Tester Moodle Educator Certificate (MEC) Moodle Course Creator Certification (MCCC) The Interaction Design Foundation Mobile User Experience Design [certificate] Human-Computer Interaction [certificate] Information Visualization: Getting Dashboards Right [certificate] Web Design for Usability [certificate] Dynamic User Experience: Ajax Design and Usability [certificate] [Professional and Academic Service] Chair 3rd International Workshop on User-Oriented Logic Paradigms (IULP2019) Scientific Advisory Board 8th annual International Conference of Education, Research, and Innovation [2015] Reviewer Online Handbook of Argumentation for AI (Volume 4) Online Handbook of Argumentation for AI (Volume 3) Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Journal 25th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL2022) Sustainability Journal Information Journal Future Internet Journal Big Data and Cognitive Computing Journal Heliyon Journal Journal of Web Engineering Online Handbook of Argumentation for AI (Volume 2) The AAAI-21 Workshop on Explainable Agency in Artificial Intelligence IEEE 23rd International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA) 10th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI) 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART) IJCAI 2016 Workshop on Cognitive Knowledge Acquisition and Applications (COGNITUM) 8th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI) IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) 8th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN) 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (CIS2E) Expert Contributor/Consultant/Evaluator COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) – Evaluator Member of the College of Expert Reviewers of the European Science Foundation (ESF) Member of the Republic of Cyprus Open Science Experts Committee Member of the group of experts’ for preparing the Republic of Cyprus National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence Member of the Republic of Cyprus Open Data team Member of the EADTU EMPOWER team of experts on knowledge resources Society and Professional Body Memberships Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Hackathons/Competitions Expert on Web Technologies for the EuroSkills Herning 2025 Competition, 9-13 September, Herning, Denmark Team of Experts Coordinator for the 8th National Competition Skillcyprus 2024 on Web Development, 28-30 November, Nicosia Judge and Mentor @ Cyprus Open Data Hackathon, 15-16 September, 2018, Limassol Mentor @ Cyta Smartcity Crowdhackathon, 23-25 February, 2018, Nicosia Leave a Reply You must be logged in to post a comment.