I am a Research Lecturer at the KIOS Research & Innovation Center of Excellence at the University of Cyprus. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cyprus in 2014. I graduated top of my class with a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering in 2008 and completed an M.Sc. in Computer Engineering in 2010 with a full scholarship, all from the University of Cyprus.

My research lies at the intersection of Computing, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision. I have made significant contributions in the areas of computation/data-efficient machine/deep learning design/search (Cascade SVM), and perception learning for vision systems (EmergencyNet, DroNet), particularly in recognition, detection, segmentation, and control. My work has resulted in over 70 scientific publications, including two best paper awards. My long-term research goal is to address the questions: a) What architectural, training, and deployment strategies can make modern ML models simultaneously performant and efficient in data-scarce or resource-constrained environments? b) How can real-time learning systems autonomously adapt to non-stationary environments while maintaining performance and minimizing retraining overhead? c) What integrated approaches can ensure the robustness and security of AI systems in safety-critical settings, accounting for both adversarial manipulation and real-world noise, while supporting trust and accountability?

My expertise extends to actively participating in the conception, design, and implementation of numerous National and European funded research and innovation projects. My research activities encompass applications in emergency management, traffic monitoring, autonomous vehicles, and surveillance. I also serve as a reviewer for several computer vision and machine learning journals (e.g., IEEE Trans. PAMI, IEEE Trans. Artificial Intelligence; IEEE Trans. Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Trans. Image Processing), and conferences (e.g., CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, WACV,  NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR).