Christos Kyrkou is a Research Lecturer at the KIOS Research & Innovation Center of Excellence at the University of Cyprus. Dr. Kyrkou received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Cyprus in 2014. He graduated top of his class and received his B.Sc in Computer Engineering in 2008 from the University of Cyprus . After been awarded a full scholarship he received his M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Cyprus in 2010. He is an author/co-author of more than 50 scientific publications in international peer reviewed conferences and journals, including 2 best paper awards. In 2020 he worked as teaching staff at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCY teaching the course ECE627 Computer VIsion. He has worked in several National and European funded research and innovation projects. His research interests lie in the areas of Computer Vision and Deep Learning with emphasis on real-time performance. In particular efficient neural network architectures and techniques, algorithms for visual object recognition and detection, with applications in emergency management, autonomous vehicles, and drones. He serves as a reviewer for major conferences in the areas of computer vision and machine learning such as CVPR, NeurIPS, and ICML.