George Vouros Email & Phone Number

George VOUROS (B.Sc, Ph.D) holds a BSc in Mathematics (1986), and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence (1992) all from the University of Athens, Greece. Currently he is a Professor in the Department of Digital Systems in the University of Piraeus.He heads the AI-Lab in this Department (http://ai-group.ds.unipi.gr/ai-group) and directs an MSc on AI, in collaboration with the IIT of NCSR "Demokritos" (http://msc-ai.iit.demokritos.gr/). Further details concerning his work can be found in http://ai-group.ds.unipi.gr/georgev/He has served as Dept. Head and Prof in the University of the Aegean (Dept. of Information and Communication Systems Eng.), as Dean of School of Sciences in the same University. He has done research in the areas of Expert Systems (has developed 4 successful systems in critical and complex domains during 1990-1997), Knowledge Management, Collaborative Systems, Ontologies (engineering, alignment of, learning and population, extracting modules from, decentralized reasoning with), Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (focusing on organizations and adaptation, information sharing), Reinforcement Learning in Multi-Agent complex settings (e.g. in the aviation domain). He served/serves as program chair, chair and member of organizing committees of national and international conferences (AAMAS, AAAI, IJCAI, ECAI, WI/IAT, AT, EUMAS, ICMLA, ESWC, CSCL, AIAI) and as member of steering committees/boards of international conferences/workshops (EURAMAS, SETN, AT, COIN, OAEI). He has given keynote speeches in conferences and workshops, and he has organised several workshops (MATES@EDBT, Data-Driven ATM@WAC, Data-Enhanced Trajectory Based Operations@ICRAT; the most recent ones). He served/serves as guest editor in special issues in well-reputed journals. He is/was senior researcher in numerous EU-funded and National research projects. He recently coordinated the successful DART project (SESAR project) towards data-driven trajectory prediction in the Air Traffic Management domain, and coordinated the datACRON Big Data project (H2020 ICT-16). He currently participates in AI-Lab projects, as described in http://ai-group.ds.unipi.gr/ai-group.George Vouros has served 3 times as chair of the Hellenic A.I. Society board.

Listed skills include Artificial Intelligence, Semantic Web, Ontologies, Algorithms, and 17 others.