Dr. Christos A. Fidas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Patras, and a Research Associate at the HCI Group of the Interactive Systems Laboratory, University of Patras. He received a PhD from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Patras, Hellas. Understanding users and applying human-centred design methodologies in interactive systems design is the main focus of his research activities. Specifically, he is investigating the influence of human cognitive aspects in usable secure and cultural heritage informatics aiming to drive the development of personalized IT-solutions to the unique information processing characteristics of the end-users. In this context, he coordinated National and European research projects with an overall budget of (>1 MEUR) and has published papers in accredited academic journals and conferences, and patents, including best paper awards, best paper award nominations and honorable mentions. See more: http://www.cfidas.info
Dr. Ilias G. Maglogiannis is the Head of the Department and Director of the Computational Biomedicine Laboratory in the Dept of Digital Systems in the University of Piraeus (http://cbml.ds.unipi.gr). He received a Diploma in Electrical & Computer Engineering and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Informatics from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) Greece in 1996 and 2000 respectively, with scholarship from the Greek Government. From 1996 until 2000 he worked as a Researcher in the Biomedical Engineering Laboratory in NTUA (www.biomed.ntua.gr). From February of 2001 until June 2008 he was with the Dept of Information and Communication Systems Engineering in University of the Aegean (www.icsd.aegean.gr), from 2008 until 2013 he was Assistant Professor in the Dept of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics in the University of Thessaly (www.dib.uth.gr) and in the beginning of 2013 he joined the Dept. of Digital Systems in the University of Piraeus. He has been principal investigator in many European (i.e. H2020: PolicyCloud, CROWDHEALTH, UNCAP, AGILE, FP7: e-LICO, INHOME, FP6: UNITE, NOMAD, TELEMED, FP5: MOMEDA, INTRACLINIC) and National Research programs, while he has also served as external evaluator in R&D projects for the EU, the Botnar Research Center, the Government of Hong Kong, the Republic of Portugal, Czech, Cyprus and Greece. His scientific interests include Biomedical Informatics, Image processing and Computer Vision, Multimedia and Video processing, Mobile and Pervasive Healthcare Systems, Ambient Assisted Living.