The Department of Computer Science invites you to a seminar, titled “Building Greater Situational Awareness: Data Fusion, Agile Intelligent Systems, Security, and the Blockchain” with Dr Ioannis Kyriakides.
Modern societies face challenges that are either unprecedented or occur in greater magnitudes than ever before. Such challenges include massive irregular migration, attacks on civilians, large scale destruction of the environment, accidents, and attacks on cyber-physical systems supporting critical infrastructure. Appropriate response to these challenges requires the use of sophisticated software and hardware technology. This talk provides an overview of novel technological methods and tools that have the potential to handle large volumes of information, fuse heterogeneous data from multiple sensing systems, and take fast decisions at critical turning points. It is proposed that, in order to reach their full potential, these methods and tools need to be combined and organized into systems of autonomous agents. Such systems will then naturally evolve towards achieving true decentralized intelligence.
About Dr Ioannis Kyriakides
Dr Ioannis Kyriakides received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2003 from Texas A&M University. He received his M.S. and PhD degrees in 2005 and 2008 respectively from Arizona State University. He held a research associate position throughout his graduate studies, funded by the Integrated Sensing and Processing program and the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative of the USA Department of Defence. In his final year of his PhD work he received the University Graduate Fellowship of the Arizona State University. His research interests include Bayesian target tracking, sequential Monte Carlo methods, heterogeneous data fusion. His research work includes localization of multiple RF sources, tracking surface vehicles using passive acoustic sensing, tracking multiple targets with constraints in motion, tracking multiple targets using heterogeneous sensors with on-board processing capabilities. He has been the coordinator of a Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation funded project on the use of Automated Sonar-Thermal Monitoring for Sea Border Security, CY-RPF, (funding: € 180 K) under the University of Nicosia Research Foundation. Dr Kyriakides is currently an Associate Professor at the Engineering Department at the University of Nicosia. He participates in the Department of Engineering Quality Assurance Committee and the University of Nicosia Environment, Health, and Safety committee. He is a member of CapTech Information of the European Defence Agency.
