Distinctions

  • Prof. Stefanos Gritzalis most frequently cited papers have more than 11.000 citations, h-index=54, i10-index=174, as measured by Google Scholar.
  • Prof. Demetrios Sampson,  2025, reached 10.000+ citations (h-index=47, i10-index=173), @ Google Scholar.
  • Prof. Ilias Maglogiannis, Chairman, 2012–2025, Work Team IFIP WG 12.5 Artificial Intelligence Applications.
  • Prof. George Vouros, Senior Program Committee Member – European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) 2025.
  • Prof. George Vouros, Advisory board member of projects: 1) ORCI, Optimised Runway Centreline Interception, 2) Artificial Intelligence supporting Air Traffic Control Service, SESARHorizon Europe, 2024-2026, 3) DeepFlow, Enabled Dynamic Air Traffic Flow Configuration for Flow-Centric Airspace Management, SESARHorizon Europe, 2025-2027.
  • Prof. Stefanos Gritzalis is listed in the top 2% of the most cited researchers in the ICT domain around the globe, as ranked by researchers from Stanford University and published by Elsevier (September 2024)
  • Prof. Angeliki Alexiou is listed in the top 2% of the most cited researchers in the ICT domain around the globe, as ranked by researchers from Stanford University and published by Elsevier (September 2024)
  •  Prof. Ilias Maglogiannis is listed in the top 2% of the most cited researchers in the ICT domain around the globe, as ranked by researchers from Stanford University and published by Elsevier (September 2024)
  • Prof. Demetrios Sampson is listed in the top 2% of the most cited researchers in the ICT domain around the globe, as ranked by researchers from Stanford University and published by Elsevier (September 2024)
  • Stanford/Scopus 2% of the world’s top scientists (out of 8.000.000 scientists worldwide) based on indicator analysis of the impact of their overall published work (2022, 2023, 2024) – Professor Demetrios Sampson
  • Golden award “Digital Education, Robotics and AI in Public Higher Education”, Education Leaders Awards 2024 (July 2024) – Postgraduate Studies Programme “E-learning”
  • International distiction for Professor Angeliki Alexiou“ 100 Brilliant and Inspiring Women in 6G™” list for 2024.
  • Prof. Stefanos Gritzalis, “Cybersecurity Award 2024”, Greece
  • Prof. Stefanos Gritzalis is a Member of the Board of the National Commission for Human Rights (2024-2026)
  • Prof. Athanasios Kanatas, 2024 – Associate Editor of Journal IEEE Transactions on Antennas & Propagation, impact factor 4.6.
  • Prof. Athanasios Kanatas, 2024 – Editor of Journal IEEE Communication Letters, impact factor 3.7.
  • Prof. Athanasios Kanatas, 2024 – Elected Representative (2nd mandate) for Region 15 (Greece, Cyprus, Israel, Turkey) for the European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP).
  • Prof. George Vouros, Associate Editor in Chief for the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT), World Scientific 2024.
  • Prof. George Vouros, Chair for Organization or Co-organization of major international conferences 1) ECAI 2027, Athens, Greece, 2) ISWC 2020, Athens, Greece, 3) EUMAS 2015, Athens, Greece 4) ECAI 2008 (as president of EETN), Patras, Greece, 5) Agreement technologies 2012 (Dubrovnic -Serbia) & 2025 (Athens, Greece), 6) WI 2011 (Vice-chair), Lyon France, 7) SETN 2004, 2008, 2010, & 2024, 8) 1996-2018 Chair or Co-chair of 15 workshops in major AI conferences.
  • Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Greece Leader Award (2023) – Professor Demetrios Sampson
  • Best Poster Runner-up Award for the paper: N. Koutroumanis, C. Doulkeridis, C. Renso, M. Nanni and R. Perego: TrajParquet: A Trajectory-Oriented Column File Format for Mobility Data Lakes. International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems 2023 (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2023).
  •  Prof. Ilias Maglogiannis, 2023 European Alliance of Medical and Biological Engineering and Science (EAMBES) – Fellow Member.
  • First prize at the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition – Startups-Unipi and Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub Prize, Entrepreneurship and Development Activities, University of Piraeus, October 23, 2023 A. Meliones, K. Filios, P. Theodorou, K. Tsiligkos, MANTO 2.0: Autonomous Navigation Applications for the Blind in Outdoor and Indoor Spaces.
  • Prof. George Vouros, Elected as president or vice-president of the board of Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society (EETN) for the years 2023-2024, 2022-2023, 2009-2010, 2008-2009, 2) Member of the EURAMAS board 2016-2020 (currently emeritus member of the board), 3) Member of the TAILOR European Network for AI 2022 4) Member of the ELLIS European Network for AI 2022.
  • Prof. Athanasios Kanatas, 2022 – Editor of Journal IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, impact factor 10.9.
  • Prof. Stefanos Gritzalis is a Member of the Board of the Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (2020-2026
  • Prof. George Vouros, Member of Editorial Board of Information, MDPI -2022.
  • Best paper award among all workshops of the conference: Efthymios Oikonomou and Angelos Rouskas, “Selection of Service Nodes in Edge Computing Environments,” in the Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing Systems, Management, and Security (MCSMS-2020) in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS), Paris, France, Dec. 2020.
  • 3rd Young Scientist Award @SESAR Innovation Days 2022 for George Papadopoulos for his MSc in Artificial Intelligence Thesis on Conflicts’ Detection and Resolution with the use of deep reinforcement learning methods, under the supervision of Prof. George Vouros.
  • “Ralf H. Güting” Best Research Paper Award for the paper: P. Tampakis, D. Spyrellis, C. Doulkeridis, N. Pelekis, C. Kalyvas, A. Vlachou: A Novel Indexing Method for Spatial-Keyword Range Queries. 17th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD’21).
  • Prof. Stefanos Gritzalis is a Member of the Board of the Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (2020-2026).
  • Best paper award among all workshops of the conference: Efthymios Oikonomou and Angelos Rouskas, “Selection of Service Nodes in Edge Computing Environments,” in the Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing Systems, Management, and Security (MCSMS-2020) in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS), Paris, France, Dec. 2020.
  • Best paper award, for the paper: Christos Spatharis, Konstantinos Blekas, George A. Vouros, Apprenticeship learning of flight trajectories prediction with inverse reinforcement learning, SETN 2020: 241-249.
  • Best Paper Award, for the paper: S. Chen, G.L. Andrienko, N.V. Andrienko, C. Doulkeridis, A. Koumparos: Contextualized Analysis of Movement Events. 16th International Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA’19).
  • Best Presentation Award: P. Theodorou and A. Meliones, “User Requirements Analysis for the Development of Assistive Navigation Mobile Apps for Blind and Visually Impaired People,” International Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ICCA 2019), Austria, December 26-27, 2019.
  • International Society for Engineering Pedagogy (IGIP) Golden Nikola Tesla Chain Award for “International outstanding achievements in the field of Engineering Pedagogy” (September 2018) – Professor Demetrios Sampson
  • Prof. Demetrios Sampson, 2008-2011 & 2016-2018, Elected Chair, IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee Learning Technology (IEEE TCLT)
  • Best Paper Award for the paper: E.T. Michailidis, N. Nomikos, P. Bithas, D. Vouyioukas, A.G. Kanatas, “Outage Probability of Triple-Hop Mixed RF/FSO/RF Stratospheric Communication Systems,” The Tenth International Conference on Advances in Satellite and Space Communications, SPACOMM 2018, April 22-26, Athens, Greece.
  • Best Paper Award, for the paper: E.T. Michailidis, N. Nomikos, P. Bithas, Vouyioukas, A.G. Kanatas, “Optimal Relay Location and Oppοrtunistic User-Scheduling for Stratospheric Communications,” The Tenth International Conference on Advances in Satellite and Space Communications, SPACOMM 2018, April 22-26, Athens, Greece.
  • Best paper award, for the paper: Spatharis C, Kravaris T, Blekas K, Vouros GA. Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Methods for Resolving Demand – Capacity Imbalances, DASC 2018.
  • Best Full Paper Award in IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies ICALT17, Timisoara, Romania (July 2017) [S. Sergis, D. Sampson and M. Giannakos, “Enhancing student digital skills: Adopting an ecosystemic school analytics approach”] – Professor Demetrios Sampson
  • 1st Winner in the International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation 2017 (SemEval’17) – Task 4: Sentiment Analysis on Twitter. C. Baziotis, N. Pelekis, C. Doulkeridis: DataStories at SemEval-2017 Task 4: Bidirectional LSTM with Attention for Message-level and Topic-based Sentiment Analysis.
  • 2nd Winner in the International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation 2017 (SemEval’17) – Task 6: #HashtagWars: Learning a Sense of Humor. C. Baziotis, N. Pelekis, C. Doulkeridis: DataStories at SemEval-2017 Task 6: Siamese Bidirectional LSTM with Attention for Humorous Text Comparison.
  • 3rd Winner in the SIGSPATIAL Cup competition (GISCUP’16), ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016. P. Nikitopoulos, A.-I. Paraskevopoulos, C. Doulkeridis, N. Pelekis, Y. Theodoridis: BigCAB: Distributed Hot Spot Analysis over Big Spatio-temporal Data using Apache Spark.
  • Best Full Paper Award in IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies ICALT16, Austin, Texas, USA (July 2016) [S. Sergis and D. Sampson, “Towards a Teaching Analytics Tool for supporting reflective educational (re)design in Inquiry-based STEM Education”] – Professor Demetrios Sampson
  • Best Paper Award for the paper: Delibasis, K., Maglogiannis, I., & Plagianakos, V. (2016). Silhouette labeling and tracing in calibrated omnidirectional video sequences. Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) 2016, Corfu, Greece.
  • Best Innovation Paper Award: Α. Meliones, C. Filios, “BlindHelper: A Pedestrian Navigation System for Blinds and Visually Impaired,” In Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, June 29-July 1, 2016, Corfu.
  • Best Short Paper Award in IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies ICALT14, Athens, Greece (July 2014) P. Zervas, I. Kalimeris and D. Sampson, “A Method for Developing Mobile Virtual Laboratories”.
  • Best paper award, for the paper: Santipantakis G., Vouros G., Modularizing Ontologies for the Construction of E-SHIQ Distributed Knowledge Bases. SETN 2014.
  • Prof. Stefanos Gritzalis was the Rector of the University of the Aegean, Greece (2014-2018)
  • Best Paper Award, for the paper: K. Maliatsos, P. Vasileiou, and A.G. Kanatas, “Channel Estimation and Link Level Evaluation of Adaptive Beamspace MIMO Systems,” Global Wireless Summit, Wireless VITAE 2013, Atlantic City, USA, 24-27 June.
  • Golden Core Member, IEEE Computer Society in recognition of his contribution to the field of Learning Technologies (January 2013) – Prof. Demetrios Sampson
  • Prof. George Vouros, Invited Speaker for 1) WOMO 2013, La Coruna, Spain, 2) CLIMA 2013, La Coruna, Spain, 3) ICTAI 2014 Limassol, Cyprus, 4) IF&GIS 2007, Shanghai Maritime University, China, 5) HAISS & ACAI 2019 Summer School, Crete Greece, 6) Data Science Masters program summer school 2022, Santorini, Greece.
  • IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Service Award in recognition of “exceptional service as the Chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technologies and Chairing IEEE ICALT, IEEE DIGITEL and IEEE WMUTE Conferences 2007-2012” (July 2012) – Prof. Demetrios Sampson
  • OPAL Award 2011 for Quality and Innovation through Open Educational Practices, European eContent Plus Programme OpenScienceResources: Towards the Development of a Shared Digital Repository for Formal and Informal Science Education, Project Partner (December 2011) – Prof. Demetrios Sampson
  • Best Research Project Award, European Lifelong Learning Programme Leonardo Da Vinci, MW-TELL: Mobile and Wireless Technologies for Technology-Enhanced Language Learning Project, Project Director (November 2011) – Prof. Demetrios Sampson
  • Best Poster Paper Award in IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies ICALT11, Athens, Georgia, USA (July 2011), D. Sampson, P. Zervas and S. Sotiriou, “Learning Object Repositories for Science Education: The OpenScienceResources Repository”.
  •  Silver IMS Impact Award, European eContent Plus Programme OpenScienceResources: Towards the Development of a Shared Digital Repository for Formal and Informal Science Education, Project Partner (May 2011) – Prof. Demetrios Sampson
  • Βραβείο Καλύτερης Εργασίας 5ο Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Καθηγητών Πληροφορικής: “Η Πληροφορική στην Πρωτοβάθμια και Δευτεροβάθμια Εκπαίδευση – Ο ρόλος του καθηγητή Πληροφορικής στο νέο σχολείο” (1-3 Απριλίου 2011), Β. Καψιμάλη και Δ. Σάμψων, “Πιλοτική Μελέτη Περίπτωσης Αξιοποίησης του Εργαλείου Scratch στην Σχολική Εκπαίδευση”.
  • Best Paper Award in International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems INCOS 2010, Thessaloniki, Greece (November 2010), D. Sampson and P. Zervas, “Technology-enhanced Training for People with Disabilities: The eAccess2Learn Framework”.
  • Best Paper Award, for the paper: E. Michailidis and A. Kanatas, “On the Capacity of 3-D Space-Time Correlated HAP-MIMO Channels,” in Proc. Second International Conference on Advances in Satellite and Space Communications (SPACOMM) 2010, Athens, Greece, June 13-19.
  • Best Short Paper Award in IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies ICALT09, Riga, Latvia (July 2009), A. Kalamatianos, P. Zervas and D. Sampson, “ASK-LOST 2.0: A Tool for Social Tagging of Digital Educational Resources on the Web”.
  • Best Paper Award for the paper: Charalampos Doukas, Ilias Maglogiannis, “Human Distress Sound Analysis and Characterization using Advanced Classification Techniques,” 5th Hellenic Conference in Artificial Intelligence, SETN 2008, October 2-4, Syros, Greece.
  • Best Poster Paper Award in IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies ICALT07, Niigata, Japan (July 2007), D. Sampson, K. Götze and P. Zervas, “Delivering IMS Learning Design Activities via Mobile Devices”.
  • Καθ. Γεώργιος Βούρος, Κοσμήτορας Σχολής Θετικών Επιστημών, Παν. Αιγαίου, 2006-2008.
  • Best Full Paper Award in IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies ICALT04, Joensuu, Finland (August 2004), P. Karampiperis and D. Sampson, “Adaptive Instructional Planning Using Ontologies”.
  • Prof. Athanasios Kanatas, 2002 – Senior Member του ΙΕΕΕ.
  • Best Full Paper Award in IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies ICALT01, Madisson, USA (August 2001), V. Papaioannou, P. Karadimitriou, A. Papageorgiou, C. Karagiannidis and D. Sampson, “From Educational Metadata Authoring to Educational Metadata Management”.