Scholar
Christos Kyrkou
Google Scholar ID: yGs-pHEAAAAJ
KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence, University of Cyprus
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,861
H-index
20
i10-index
32
Publications
20
Co-authors
20
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published over 70 scientific publications, including two best paper awards. Supervised PhD student Shahid Siddiqui and the team achieved first place in the Generalization of NAS for 'Never Seen Before (Unseen)' datasets challenge organized as part of AutoML 2025 conference.
Research Experience
- Currently a Research Lecturer at the KIOS Research & Innovation Center of Excellence at the University of Cyprus. Actively involved in numerous National and European funded research and innovation projects, with applications in emergency management, traffic monitoring, autonomous vehicles, and surveillance.
Education
- Earned a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cyprus in 2014; graduated top of his class with a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering in 2008; completed an M.Sc. in Computer Engineering in 2010 with a full scholarship, all from the University of Cyprus.
Background
- Research interests: intersection of Computing, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision. Specialization: computation/data-efficient machine/deep learning design/search (e.g., Cascade SVM), and perception learning for vision systems (e.g., EmergencyNet, DroNet), particularly in recognition, detection, segmentation, and control.
Miscellany
- Served as Topic Chair for the 'Applications of AI Systems' track at DATE, and also serves as a reviewer for several computer vision and machine learning journals (e.g., IEEE Trans. PAMI, IEEE Trans. Artificial Intelligence) and conferences (e.g., CVPR, ECCV, ICCV).
