AWARDS, INDUSTRY SUPPORT, AND SCHOLARSHIPS
AWARDS
Recognized in the 2022 Single Year Top 2% cited scientists in their field worldwide (published by Stanford University)}
Recognized in the 2021 Single Year Top 2% cited scientists in their field worldwide (published by Stanford University)}
2nd place in the Real-Time Camera Scene Detection Challenge taking place under the Mobile AI Workshop @ CVPR 2021.
Best Paper Award, Conference: IEEE 4th International Conference on Image Processing, Applications, and Systems, Paper Title: “Imitation-Based Active Camera Control with Deep Convolutional Neural Network”, December 2020.
Best Paper Award, Conference: IEEE Microelectronics Systems in Education (MSE), Paper Title: “FPGA-Based NoC-Driven Sequence of Lab Assignments for Manycore Systems”, July 2009
Award for best thesis dissertation in Computer Engineering (B.Sc.), “Signal Generix Ltd Award”, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus, June 2008
Award for graduating top of his class (B.Sc.), “Electricity Authority of Cyprus Award”, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus, June 2008
INDUSRTY SUPPORT (refereed process)
NVIDIA Applied Research Accelerator Award, awarded a GPU Grant (RTX A6000 48GB ~$5,000) by NVIDIA and training for real-time video AI Applications through its Deep Learning Institute (DLI), as support for research in machine learning methods for aerial camera-based real-time traffic monitoring, April 2022
Intel Scholarship for the Intel Edge AI foundation course on optimizing deep learning for edge applications using the Intel OpenVINO toolkit, January 2020
NVIDIA GPU GRANT, awarded a GPU Grant (Titan XP) by NVIDIA as support for research in computer vision for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications, August 2018
NVIDIA GPU GRANT, Awarded a GPU Grant (Titan XP) by NVIDIA as support for research in aerial cameras and smart camera networks, August 2017
SCHOLARSHIPS
Travel Scholarship, Attended the 2016 DAC Young Faculty Workshop, Austin Texas, USA, May 2016
Full Scholarship for M.Sc. Studies, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus, June 2008