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Anastasios Tefas​
Group Leader

Anastasios Tefas  received the B.Sc. in informatics in 1997 and the Ph.D. degree in informatics in 2002, both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 2022 he has been a Professor at the Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

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From 2008 to 2022, he was a Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor at the same University. Prof. Tefas participated in 20 research projects financed by national and European funds. He is the Coordinator of the H2020 project OpenDR, “Open Deep Learning Toolkit for Robotics”. He is Area Editor in Signal Processing: Image Communications journal. He has co-authored 150 journal papers, 280 papers in international conferences and contributed 17 chapters to edited books in his area of expertise. He has co-organized more than 15 workshops, tutorials, special sessions and special issues and has given more than 20 invited talks. He has co-edited the book “Deep Learning for Robot Perception and Cognition”, Elsevier, 2022. Over 9600 citations have been recorded to his publications and his H-index is 48 according to Google scholar. His current research interests include computational intelligence, deep learning, pattern recognition, machine learning, digital signal and image analysis and retrieval, computer vision and robotics.

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Nikolaos Passalis
Postdoctoral Researcher

Nikolaos Passalis received the B.Sc. degree in informatics, the M.Sc. degree in information systems, and the Ph.D. degree in informatics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2013, 2015, and 2018, respectively.

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Since 2019, he has been a post-doctoral researcher with the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, while from 2018 to 2019 he also conducted post-doctoral research at the Faculty of Information Sciences, Tampere University, Finland.  He has co-authored 63 journal papers, 81 papers in international conferences and contributed 8 chapters to edited books in his area of expertise. Over 3000 citations have been recorded to his publications and his H-index is 28 according to Google scholar.   His research interests include deep learning, computational intelligence,  information-theoretic learning, representation learning, robotics perception, computer vision, lightweight deep learning, deep reinforcement learning, model-based and data-driven learning, time series analysis and photonic neuromorphic deep learning.

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Manos Kirtas
PhD student, Researcher

Manos Kirtas obtained his Bachelor degree in Informatics from Aristotle  University of Thessaloniki in November 2019. Currently he is a post-graduate  student in Artificial Intelligence while he is working towards his PhD in  domain of Deep Learning. 

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His research interests include deep learning, neuromorphic neural networks and lightweight architectures.Other than that he  is interested in privacy, security and interpretable AI. Since February 2020 he  is member of Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis research group   working on PlasmoniAC H2020 research project. Last but not least, he was accepted  twice in Google Summer of Code by OWASP to develop critical infrastructure for  a well known open source toolkit (ZAP).

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Pavlos Tosidis
Pavlos Tosidis
Phd student, Researcher

Pavlos Tosidis graduated from the School of Informatics of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2019 and continues his studies attending the M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence, again in AUTH. He is a member of the Computational Intelligence and Deep Learning research group since January 2020.

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His research interests include deep learning, active perception and deep reinforcement learning.

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Theodoros Manousis
Phd student, Researcher

Theodoros Manousis received his B.Sc in Physics in 2017, and his M.Sc in Intelligent and Autonomous Systems in 2021, both from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Currently he is pursuing his PhD in Deep Learning methods at Autonomous Systems while he is a member of the Computational Intelligence and Deep Learning research group. 

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Loukia Avramelou
PhD student, Researcher

Loukia Avramelou obtained her B.Sc. degree in Informatics in 2021 from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is currently pursuing a M.Sc. degree in Data and Web Science and she is working her PhD, both at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

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She is member of the Computational Intelligence Deep Learning research group. Her main research interests consist of deep learning, reinforcement learning and financial forecasting.

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Dimitrios Spanos
Phd student, Researcher​

Dimitrios Spanos received the M.Eng. degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Currently he is a researcher in the Computational Intelligence and Deep Learning group and is working towards his PhD degree in Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

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Dimitrios Katsikas
Researcher

Dimitrios Katsikas received his B.Sc. in Informatics in 2023 from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is currently pursuing an M.Sc. degree in Artificial Intelligence at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and is a member of the Computational Intelligence and Deep Learning research group.

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Vasileios Moustakidis
Researcher

Vasileios Moustakidis completed his B.Sc. degree in Informatics in February 2023 from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is currently pursuing an M.Sc. degree in Artificial Intelligence at the same institution.

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He is a member of the Computational Intelligence Deep Learning research group. His main research interests include deep learning and anomaly detection.

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Vasileios Kanatas
Researcher​

Vasileios Kanatas obtained his M.Eng degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2023. Currently, he is a researcher in Computational Intelligence and Deep Learning research group. His main interests include deep learning and machine learning.

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Dimitrios Akrivousis
Researcher
Dimitris Akrivousis received his B.Sc. degree in Informatics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and completed his M.Sc on Artificial Intelligence from the same institution, in early 2023.  

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Currently he is a researcher in the Computational Intelligence and Deep Learning research group. His main research interests include deep learning, cyber security, 3D simulations and deep learning for robotics. 

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Eleni Chantzi
Administrative Personnel

Eleni Chantzi received her Bachelor degree in Technology Management from the University of Macedonia in 2009. Having more than 13 years of experience in the field of administration, she is currently a member of the Computational Intelligence and Deep Learning research group, supporting the project management procedures.

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Maria Tzelepi
Postdoctoral Researcher

Maria Tzelepi received the B.Sc. degree in Informatics, the M.Sc. degree in Digital Media – Computational Intelligence, and the Ph.D. degree in Informatics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2013, 2016, and 2021, respectively.  

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She is currently a post-doctoral researcher in the Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis Laboratory in the Department of Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research interests include deep learning, pattern recognition, computer vision, as well as image analysis and retrieval.

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Avraam Tsantekidis
Phd student, Researcher

Avraam Tsantekidis is pursuing his PhD in Deep Learning, with a focus in Financial Trading, from the School of Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. After receiving his B.Sc. on Informatics in 2016, he has worked at two Investment Management firms.

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Paraskevi Nousi
Postdoctoral Researcher

Paraskevi Nousi obtained her B.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Informatics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2014 and 2021 respectively.  She is currently a post-doctoral researcher in the Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis Laboratory in the Department of Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. 

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Her research interests include deep learning for computer vision, robotics, financial forecasting and gravitational waves analysis.

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Emmanouil Mpampis
Researcher

Emmanouil Mpampis obtained his Bachelor degree in Electrical and Computer engineer from Democritus University of Thrace in 2021. He is currentrly MSc student in Digital Media and Computational Intelligence program  in School of Informatics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. 

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He is a member of the Computational Intelligence and Deep Learning research group. His interests include deep learning, active perception, robotics, software engineering and deep learning and ai implimatations in game development, among others.

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Kostas Tsampazis
Researcher

Kostas Tsampazis received his B.Sc. in Informatics in 2019 and his M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence in 2020, both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Currently he is a researcher in the Computational Intelligence and Deep Learning group. His main interests include deep learning, reinforcement learning and robotics.

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