Georgios Tsichrintzis is a Full Professor at the Department of Informatics of the University of Piraeus. He holds a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and a Master’s degree and a PhD from Northeastern University, USA.
From 2008 to 2012 he served as Deputy Head of the Department. From 2008 to 2016 he was Director of the Department’s Postgraduate Programme “Advanced Information Systems”. From 2012 to 2016 he was a member of the (first) Governing Council of the University of Piraeus. From 1 September 2016 he chaired the Department of Informatics for two consecutive terms, which ended on 31 August 2020. In 2018-2020 he served as Director of the Postgraduate Programme “Advanced Information Systems – Software Systems Development and Artificial Intelligence”. Over his more than 25 years of service at the University of Piraeus, he has served as Chair/Member of more than 50 committees of both the Department of Informatics and the University of Piraeus.
He has served as Chair/Member of evaluation committees for research proposals submitted to the General Secretariat for Research and Technology and to other Greek, European and international bodies. He also served as Alternate Member of the Governing Committee of the Hellenic Open University from 2009 to 2015.
His current research interests include: Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Decision Theory, Statistical Signal Processing and Computational Intelligence, as well as their applications in Multimedia Interactive Services, Software User Modelling, Knowledge-Based Software Systems, Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval. He has published more than three hundred and fifty (350) research papers in major international journals and conferences, and he is (co-)author of seven (7) monographs and (co-)editor of forty (40) edited volumes. He is Editor-in-Chief of the international scientific journals International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies (Inderscience) and Intelligent Decision Technologies (IOS Press), and a member of the editorial boards of 18 further international scientific journals. He has edited 19 special issues of major international scientific journals. He is co-founder and co-editor of the book series LEARNING AND ANALYTICS IN INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (https://www.springer.com/series/16172) and ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-ENHANCED SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (https://www.springer.com/series/16891) of the leading scientific publisher SPRINGER. He is co-founder and co-chair of the steering committee of the major annual international conference INFORMATION, INTELLIGENCE, SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS, whose proceedings are published by the leading scientific publisher IEEE. He has chaired more than forty (40) major international conferences. He has received major international best paper awards and has been invited as keynote speaker at major international scientific conferences.