Andreas Kamilaris

I received the BA degree in Computer Science from University of Cyprus in 2007 and the MS degree in Distributed Systems from the ETH University of Zurich, Switzerland in 2009. I worked two years as an IT consultant in Politis newspaper and I am co-founder of Elevate-Me Promotions, which is the first company that brought to Cyprus the radical-new concept of elevator advertising.

In December 2012, I have successfully defended my PhD Thesis, entitled "Enabling Smart Homes using Web Technologies" at the Computer Science department of the University of Cyprus, under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Pitsillides, collaborating with the Institute for Pervasive Computing of the ETH Zurich, in the area of the Web of Things. I am also a member of the Networks Research Laboratory (NetRL), which is part of the Computer Science department of the University of Cyprus.

In 2013, I performed a one-year postdoc research at the Department of Building, School of Design and Environment of the National University of Singapore, studying techniques for reducing the ICT-based plug loads in offices and commercial buildings, affecting at the same time the occupants' behaviour towards more rational use of the office equipment for energy savings.

Then, near the end of 2014, I returned back to the University of Cyprus, continuing my postdoc research by working on the Social Electricity Online Platform (SEOP) European project, till the end of 2015, developing learning modules, educational content and online eco-feedback platforms, aiming to raise the awareness and knowledge of European citizens about energy, the environment and sustainability, investigating in parallel how Web technologies and social computing can lead people to pro-environmental behaviour. In parallel, I collaborated with the National University of Singapore, working on a project related to providing real-time online eco-feedback services to 50 houses around Singapore, using smart metering, promoting online user collaboration for co-creation of knowledge and energy savings through a synergistic effort of the participants.

During the spring semester of 2016, for 6 months, I worked as a senior postdoctoral researcher at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics of the National University of Ireland (NUIG Galway), performing research related to real-time Internet-of-Things stream processing and large-scale data analytics for smart city applications, through the CityPulse EU project.

Near the end of 2016, I received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship, working at the Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology (IRTA, Torre Marimon) in Barcelona, through the European P-SPHERE project, collaborating with the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), performing research on big data analysis and applications in the agri-food sector. In parallel, I had been lecturing a course over "Advanced Web Technologies" at the Open University of Cyprus.

Now I am working as a team leader at the Pervasive Real-World Computing for Sustainability (SuPerWorld) Multidisciplinary Research Group (MRG) of the newly established CYENS Center of Excellence. In parallel, I am an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) of the University of Twente, lecturing at the Creative Technologies BSc programme as well as the Computer Science MSc programme of the university.

Research Interests

• Big Data Analysis
• Smart Farming and Precision Agriculture
• Geospatial Analysis and GIS Systems
• Machine Learning and Deep Learning
• Satellite imagery and aerial photography
• The Internet of Things and the Web of Things
• Semantic Web Technologies and Linked Data
• Data Analysis and Large-Scale Stream Processing
• Social Computing and Online Social Networking
• Eco-Feedback Techniques and Green ICT Applications for Raising Environmental Awareness
• Smart Metering and Energy Awareness
• Energy Efficiency in Smart Homes, Offices and Commercial Buildings
• Measuring and Analyzing ICT-based Plug Loads in Offices towards Energy Savings and Load Disaggregation
• Affecting Employees for more Efficient Use of ICT Equipment in Offices
• Mobile Computing and Location-Based Services
• Urban Computing and Participatory Sensing
• Integration of Energy-Aware Smart Homes to the Smart Grid (Demand Response, Load Shedding Techniques)
• Ad hoc, Wireless Sensor Networks
• Web Technologies
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Distributed Systems
• Smart Cities
• Active citizenship, e-Government
• Collaborative Economy facilitated by ICT technologies

Awards

• Received the University Teaching Qualfication (UTQ), issued by the University of Twente. UTQ is a qualification of pedagogical competences of university teachers, which gives new perspectives on teaching for lecturers and academic personnel. At Enschede, The Netherlands in December, 2019.
• Received the award for the "Most Patents received", regarding the paper ""Exploring the use of DNS as a search engine for the Web of Things, published in the proceeding of the 2014 World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), Seoul, South Korea, March 2014. According to IEEE Xplore, the paper has reached by 2019 more than 73 citations in Patents requests. At Nicosia, Cyprus in November, 2019.
• Participated at the EIT Food Innovator Fellowship (EIT Food-InnoF) Foodathon event with the team FoodGain. The idea was to use spectroscopy and Internet of Things to quantify and assess the waste produced by restaurants, and then create partnerships with these restaurants to sell this waste as either biogas or as upscaling products for pharmaceutical/cosmetic companies. FoodGain was selected to take part to the fellowship programme and realize the proposed idea in the coming two years. At Leuven, Belgium in March, 2019.
• Second place at the Cisco Spark Hackathon, for the project "Meeting Insights", exploiting smart sensing from mobile phones and embedded sensors installed at the meeting room, based on the concept of "Internet of Things", to enhance the overall online meeting experience and improve productivity. At Dublin, Ireland in June, 2016.
• Honored for excellence and high-quality research during my PhD study at the Computer Science department of the University of Cyprus, by the Department Chair Prof. Marios Dikaiakos. At Nicosia, Cyprus in June, 2013.
• First prize award for the most innovative green ICT application, at the 2nd Green ICT Application Challenge, organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). At Paris, France in September, 2012.
• First prize award at the Cyprus Entrepreneurship Competition (CyEC) 2012 for the start-up company Elevate-Me Promotions and its latest innovation for digital, Web-based elevator advertising services. At Nicosia, Cyprus in July, 2012.
• Best paper award for the paper Exploiting Demand Response in Web-based Energy-aware Smart Homes, during the 1st International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies (Energy 2011). At Venice, Italy in May, 2011.

Education

• Ph. D. University of Cyprus (2009 — 2012)
• Master of Science (M.Sc.) ETH Zurich (2007 — 2009)
• Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) University of Cyprus (2003 — 2007)