GEORGE A. TSIHRINTZIS
PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATICS
UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS

AWARDS

• Best Applications Papers Award of the 29th Annual International Conference of the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, UK, December 15-17, 2009, for co-authoring a paper titled: “On Assisting a Visual-Facial Affect Recognition System with Keyboard-Stroke Pattern Information.”

• Best Poster Paper Award of 5th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, Las Vegas, USA, April 7-9, 2008, for co-authoring a paper titled: “Evaluation of a Middleware System for Accessing Digital Music Libraries in Mobile Services.”

• Southeastern Center for Electrical Engineering Education Junior Faculty Award, 1996

• Graduate scholarship Philomela Myronis (1989)

• Undergraduate scholarship Kritski (1983 - 1987)

          PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Member of IEEE

• Member of Technical Institute of Greece (TEE)

• Κριτήs για 15 Επιστημονικά Περιοδικά και πληθώρα διεθνών επιστημονικών συνεδρίων

• External supervisor for the PhD thesis of Mr. Vivek Sudhir Banore (University of South Australia)

• External supervisor for the PhD thesis of Mr. Philip Stanley Fitch (University of South Australia)

• External supervisor for the PhD thesis of Mr. Beulah Moses (University of South Australia)

• Member of the editorial board, Computational Intelligence and its Applications (COMIA) Book Series, Information Science Publishing

• Member of the editorial board, Intelligent Decision Technologies Journal, IOS Press

• Guest co-editor, International Journal Of Artificial Intelligence Tools, special issue on “Intelligent Interactive Multimedia”, 2010

• Guest co-editor, International Journal Of Intelligent Decision Technologies, special issue on “Knowledge-based Environments and Services in Human-Computer Interaction”, 2010

• Guest co-editor, International Journal Of Intelligent Decision Technologies, special issue on “Knowledge-based Modes of Human-Computer Interaction”, 2010

• Guest co-editor, International Journal Of Intelligent Defence Support Systems, special issue on “Intelligent Modelling and Data Analysis Techniques”, 2009

• Co-editor, Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments – Integrated Systems, Studies in Computational Intelligence Series, Vol., Springer, Germany, 2010

• Co-editor, Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments – Software Development Challenges and Solutions, Studies in Computational Intelligence Series, Vol., Springer, Germany, 2010

• Co-editor, New Directions in Intelligent Interactive Multimedia, Studies in Computational Intelligence Series, Vol. 142, Springer, Germany, 2008

• Co-editor, Computational Intelligence Paradigms – Innovative Applications, Studies in Computational Intelligence Series, Vol. 137, Springer, Germany, 2008

• Co-editor, Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments – Advanced Tools and Methodologies, Studies in Computational Intelligence Series, Vol. 120, Springer, Germany, 2008

• Technical Program Committee Member of 3^rd International Symposium Multimedia – Applications and Processing (MMAP 2010), within the framework of the International Multi-conference on Computer Science and Information Technology in Wisla, Poland, October 18-20, 2010

• Technical Program Committee Member of 10^th International Multidisciplinary Conference on e-Commerce and e-Government (ECOM&EGOV 2010), within the framework of the International Multi-conference on Computer Science and Information Technology in Wisla, Poland, October 18-20, 2010

• Technical Program Committee Member of 4^th Panhellinic Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (ΣΕΤΝ2010)

• Technical Program Committee Member of 6^th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP 2010), Darmstadt, Germany, October 15-17, 2010

• Technical Program Committee Member of 14th International Conference on: Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2010), Cardiff, Wales, UK, September 8-10, 2010

• Technical Program Committee Member of 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM  International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT’10), Toronto, Canada, August 31–September 3, 2010

• Technical Program Committee Member of 9^th Joint Conference on Knowledge-based Software Engineering (JCKBSE2010), Kaunas, Lithuania, August 25-27, 2010

• General Co-chair and Technical Program Committee Co-chair of  3rd International KES Symposium on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services (KES-IIMSS-2010), Baltimore, USA, July 28-30, 2010

• General Co-chair of 1^st International Multi-Conference on Innovative Developments in ICT (INNOV2010), Piraeus, Greece, July 29-31, 2010

• General Co-chair of 7^th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications (ICETE2010), Piraeus, Greece, July 26-28, 2010

• Technical Program Committee Co-chair of 2010 International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP2010), Piraeus, Greece, July 26-28, 2010

• Technical Program Committee Member of 2^nd International Symposium on Intelligent Decision Technologies (IDT-10), Baltimore, USA, July 28-30, 2010

• Technical Program Committee Member of IADIS International Conference e-Society 2010, Freiburg, Germany, July 26-29, 2010

• Μέλος της Επιστημονικής Επιτροπής του ISCA 19^th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering (SEDE-2010), San Francisco, CA, USA, June 16-18, 2010

• Technical Program Committee Member of 2^nd International Symposium Multimedia – Applications and Processing (MMAP 2009), within the framework of the International Multi-conference on Computer Science and Information Technology in Mragowo, Poland, October 12-14,  2009

• Europe Liaison of International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP09), Kyoto, Japan, September 14-16, 2009

• Technical Program Committee Member of 13^th Panhellinic Conference in Informatics (PCI2009), Corfu, 10-12 September 2009

• Honorary Chair and Technical Program Committee Member of 2^nd International KES Symposium on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services (KES-IIMSS-2009), Mogliano Veneto (Venice), Italy, July 15-16, 2009

• Technical Program Committee of ISCA 18^th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering (SEDE-2009), Las Vegas, NV, USA, June 22-24, 2009

• Technical Program Committee of  special session/track on HCI for Critical Systems at the 6th International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations (ITNG-2009), Las Vegas, NV, USA, April 27-29, 2009

• Technical Program Committee of IADIS International Conference e-Society 2009, Barcelona, Spain, 25-28 February 2009

• Technical Program Committee of 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM  International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT’08), Sydney, Australia, December 9 – 12, 2008

• Founding General Co-chair and Technical Program Committee Co-chair of 1st International KES Symposium on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services (KES-IIMSS-2008), Piraeus, Greece, July 9-11, 2008

• Local Organizing Committee Co-Chair and Technical Program Committee Member of 8^th Joint Conference on Knowledge-based Software Engineering (JCKBSE2008), Piraeus, Greece, August 24-28, 2008

• Technical Program Committee of 1^st International Symposium Multimedia – Applications and Processing (MMAP 2008), within the framework of the International Multi-conference on Computer Science and Information Technology in Wisla, Poland, October 20-22,  2008

• Μέλος της Επιστημονικής Επιτροπής του 5ου Πανελλήνιου Συνέδριου Τεχνητής Νοημοσύνης (ΣΕΤΝ2008), 2-4 Οκτωβρίου 2008

• Technical Program Committee of special session/track on Software Specification and Modeling at the 5th International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations (ITNG-2008), Las Vegas, NV, USA, April 7-9, 2008

• Technical Program Committee of 1^st International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interaction, Sainte Luce, Martinique, February 10-15, 2008

• Technical Program Committee of 19th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence , Patras, Greece, October 29-31, 2007

• Technical Program Committee of 11th International Conference on: Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2007), Vietri sul Mare, Italy, September 12-14, 2007

• Technical Program Committee of IADIS Virtual Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2008

• Technical Program Committee of IADIS Virtual Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2007

• Technical Program Committee of Virtual Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2006

• Technical Program Committee of Virtual Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2005

• Technical Program Committee of 4^th Panhellinic Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (ΣΕΤΝ2006)

• Technical Program Committee of 3^th Panhellinic Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (ΣΕΤΝ2004)

• Organizer and Chairman of the following Workshops:

• Signal Processing and Applications (2002 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics)

• Remote Sensing and Environmental Informatics (2002 Protection and Restoration of the Environment)

• Environmental Informatics (2001 Protection of Planet Earth)

• Image Processing (2001 Conference on Information Sciences and Systems)

• Image Analysis (1998 European Signal Processing Conference)

• Nonlinear Signal Processing with Alpha-Stable Distributions (1997 IEEE/EURASIP Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing)

• Emerging Signal Processing Methodologies Based on Alpha-Stable Distributions (1997 Conference on Information Sciences and Systems)

• Signal and Image Processing Applications (1996 IASTED Signal and Image Processing Conference)

• New Signal Processing Methodologies and Applications in Communications (1996 IEEE Military Communications Conference)

• Signal Processing (1995 IEEE Military Communications Conference) 

• Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing with Higher and Fractional, Lower-Order Statistics (1995 IEEE/EURASIP Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing)