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Το Τμήμα Ηλεκτρολόγων Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών του Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλίας διοργανώνει διαδικτυακό φόρουμ για την έναρξη της συνεργασίας του με το Αυστραλιανό ερευνητικό κέντρο SmartSat CRC .
Θα διεξαχθεί την Τετάρτη 15 Δεκεμβρίου 2021 και ώρα 11.00-13.30, στα Αγγλικά στο σύνδεσμο:
MS-TEAMS LINK
(προσέλευση από 10.45)
Διοργανωτές
Ασπασία Δασκαλοπούλου (aspassia@uth.gr) και Στηβ Μπακάλης (steve.bakalis@gmail.com)
To φόρουμ απευθύνεται σε μέλη ΔΕΠ, ερευνητές, μεταδιδακτορικούς ερευνητές, υποψήφιους διδάκτορες, μεταπτυχιακούς φοιτητές και τελειόφοιτους προπτυχιακούς φοιτητές, όχι μόνο του Τμήματος και όχι μόνο του Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλίας, αλλά και στην ευρύτερη επιχειρηματική κοινότητα, με σκοπό την ενημέρωση σχετικά με τις δυνατότητες για συνέργειες με το SmartSat CRC.
Το Τμήμα Ηλεκτρολόγων Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών (ΗΜΜΥ) του Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλίας, ξεκινά συνεργασία με το ερευνητικό κέντρο SmartSat CRC στην Αυστραλία. Το SmartSat CRC, αριθμώντας περίπου 130 εταίρους, είναι η μεγαλύτερη στην ιστορία της Αυστραλίας κοινοπραξία μεταξύ πανεπιστημίων, ερευνητικών κέντρων και βιομηχανίας. Η κύρια αποστολή του είναι η έρευνα και η ανάπτυξη τεχνολογίας για το διάστημα, αλλά τα ερευνητικά πεδία είναι, ως γνωστόν, συγκοινωνούντα δοχεία: πολλές εξειδικευμένες περιοχές έρευνας υποστηρίζουν την κεντρική δραστηριότητα του SmartSat CRC, και ταυτόχρονα πολλά παράγωγα αυτής της έρευνας μπορούν να αξιοποιηθούν σε πλείστες άλλες περιοχές εφαρμογών.
Στοχευμένη ερευνητική δραστηριότητα του SmartSat CRC που περιλαμβάνει, μεταξύ άλλων, τις προηγμένες τηλεπικοινωνίες και τα δίκτυα υπολογιστών, τα προηγμένα δορυφορικά συστήματα, τα δίκτυα αισθητήρων, την τεχνητή νοημοσύνη, τη συλλογή και αξιοποίηση μεγάλου όγκου δεδομένων παρατήρησης της γης από το διάστημα, θα συνδεθεί με το επιστημονικό δυναμικό και την ερευνητική δραστηριότητα του Τμήματος ΗΜΜΥ σε αντίστοιχες και συμπληρωματικές περιοχές, ώστε να ενισχυθεί η δημιουργία κρίσιμης μάζας γνώσης και τεχνολογίας και να παραχθούν εφαρμογές, τόσο ενδιαφέρουσες όσο και χρήσιμες για την εθνική, περιφερειακή αλλά και τοπική οικονομία.
Μια πρώτη παρουσίαση του σκεπτικού για αυτή τη συνεργασία έχει δημοσιευθεί πρόσφατα σε άρθρο των διοργανωτών στην εφημερίδα Καθημερινή (22-11-2021).
UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Sekeri – Cheiden Str, Pedion Areos, ECE Building, 383 34 Volos, Greece
Announcement – Invitation
The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Thessaly is organizing a web forum to mark the commencement of its collaboration with the Australian Collaborative Research Centre SmartSat CRC. The forum will be conducted in English on the 15th December 2021 during the period 11.00-13.30 (ATH), at the following MS-TEAMS link:
MS-TEAMS LINK
(join from 10.45 onwards)
Organizers
Aspassia Daskalopulu (aspassia@uth.gr ) and Steve Bakalis (steve.bakalis@gmail.com)
The forum is intended for Academics, researchers, postdoctoral researchers, doctoral researchers, postgraduate students and final year undergraduate students, not only from the ECE Department, and not only from the University of Thessaly, and also for the broader entrepreneurial community, and its purpose is to inform interested parties about the prospects for synergies with SmartSat CRC.
The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Thessaly is commencing collaboration with the Australian Collaborative Research Centre SmartSat CRC, which brings together approximately 130 partners and is the biggest collaborative effort between Universities, Research Centres and Industry in Australian history. Though research and
development in space technology is the main mission of SmartSat CRC, since research areas are typically communicating vessels, many specialist areas support its core activities and, conversely, many derivatives of space research and technology may be deployed in numerous other application areas.
Targeted research activity at SmartSat CRC that includes, among others, advanced telecommunications and networks, advanced satellite systems, sensors, artificial intelligence, the collection and mining of big data from earth observations from space, can be associated with research activities and personnel in the ECE Department, in respective and complementary areas, so as to promote the creation of critical mass in terms of knowledge and technology and produce applications that are both interesting and useful for the national, the regional and the local economy.
The rationale for such collaboration has been sketched in an article by the organizers, which was published recently in the daily national newspaper Kathimerini (22-11-2021).
UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Sekeri – Cheiden Str, Pedion Areos, ECE Building, 383 34 Volos, Greece
Program
| 10.45 | Join-in and Opening Remarks
Aspassia Daskalopulu & Steve Bakalis |
| 11.00 | Vision of an Australian Space Cooperative Research Centre
Prof Andy Koronios, CEO & Managing Director SmartSat CRC and Emeritus Professor University of South Australia |
| 11.10 | Promoting Research Excellence and Innovation
Prof Allison Kealy, Research Capability Coordinator SmartSat CRC and Professor of Geospatial Science, RMIT |
| 11.20 | Research Program: Themes, Roadmap and Demonstrators
Dr Carl Seubert, Chief Research Officer SmartSat CRC |
| 11.30 | Collaborative R&D Enabling Industry Growth for Space and Spatial Sectors
Mr Peter Kerr, Indo-Pacific Capability Demonstrator Leader SmartSat CRC |
| 11.40 | Questions / Comments /Enterprise Guests Interventions |
| 12.00 | Defect Engineering Strategies for Radiation Resistance CCDs for Space
Applications Prof Alexandros Chroneos, Professor of Computational Modelling and Systems Simulation ECE |
| 12.10 | Advanced Techniques for Management of Big Geospatial Data
Prof Michael Vassilakopoulos, Professor or Spatial Databases ECE |
| 12.20 | EDA Tools and Methodologies
Prof George Stamoulis, Professor of Digital VLSI Circuit Design ECE and Dean of Engineering University of Thessaly |
| 12.40 | Introduction to the Computer Systems Lab
Prof Spyros Lalis, Professor of Operating and Distributed Systems Software Technology, ECE |
| 12.50 | Earth-Observation Assisted Methodology in Precision Agriculture for Irrigation Water and Nitrogen Requirements
Prof Nicolas Dalezios, r. Professor Professor of Agrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of Thessaly |
| 13.00 | Questions / Comments / Enterprise Guests Intervention /Discussion |
| 13.30 | Closure |
UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Sekeri – Cheiden Str, Pedion Areos, ECE Building, 383 34 Volos, Greece
Invited participants include enterprise guests from Australia and Greece, who may contribute with short (3-5 minute) interventions. Confirmed enterprise guest list (to be updated):
▪ Dr Nicholas Begakis AO FAICD, Chairman Renew Adelaide
▪ Prof Ioanna Sapfo Pepelasis, Department of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Visiting Professor University of Athens, Scientific Coordinator of the Project
Charting Greek Startups diaNEOsis
▪ Antonis Tzounis, Centaur Analytics
▪ Dimitri (Jim) Evangelopoulos, Founder and General Manager of Augmenta Agriculture
Short Bios of Invited Speakers
Professor Andy Koronios is the CEO and Managing Director of the SmartSat CRC. Previously,
Andy held the positions of Dean: Industry & Enterprise and Head of the School of
Information Technology & Mathematical Sciences, at the University of South Australia. Andy
is a Professor of information systems and holds academic qualifications in Electrical
Engineering, Computing and education as well as a PhD from the University of Queensland.
He has extensive experience in both commercial and academic environments and his
research areas include data quality, information management & governance, data analytics
and the strategic exploitation of information. Andy has led the establishment of several
research concentrations, labs & research centres. He served as the Research Program
Leader for System Integration & Interoperability in the CIEAM CRC. He is internationally
known for his work in data quality, has been an adjudicator for the European Corporate
Data Quality Awards for several years and is the Editor-In-Chief of the International Journal
of Information Quality. He has worked both as a consultant as well as a professional
speaker on IT issues in Australia and South East Asia and has over twenty five years’
experience in the academic environment. He is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society,
a Founding Fellow of the International Institute of Engineering Asset Management and a
Distinguished Speaker of the ACM.
Prof Allison Kealy is Professor in Geospatial Science in the School of Science at
RMIT University. Allison is also the Research Capability Coordinator of the
SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre, an initiative comprising industry,
research institutions and government, and one of the most significant space
industry research concentrations in Australia. Allison is a Deputy Director of
the Sir Lawrence Wackett Centre, RMIT University’s defence research
centre. She is currently president of the International Association of Geodesy,
Commission 4 (Positioning and Applications) and co-chair of the International
UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Sekeri – Cheiden Str, Pedion Areos, ECE Building, 383 34 Volos, Greece
Federation of Surveying (FIG) Working Group 5.5 on Multi-Sensor Systems. She
is a Fellow of both the International Association of Geodesy, and the Royal
Institute of Navigation. She is a technical representative to the Satellite
Division of the US, Institute of Navigation. Allison holds a PhD in Satellite
Positioning and Geodesy from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and
a BSc in Land Surveying from the University of the West Indies, Trinidad.
Allison’s research interests cuts across a number of key industry sectors
including defence, emergency and disaster management, Space and near space
sensors and engineering, intelligent transport and autonomous platforms.
Dr Carl Seubert joined SmartSat in May 2021, after nine years at NASA JPL as Senior
Aerospace Engineer. After graduating with a First Class Honours in Aerospace
Engineering from the University of Sydney, Carl completed a Master of Science
degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Missouri University of Science and
Technology (USA) and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Colorado
Boulder (USA).
As Nasa JPL’s Manager – Formation Control Testbed and Guidance and Control
Engineer, Carl led research and technology development for spacecraft formation
flight, future Earth observation missions and precise planetary landing. This
includes designing the spacecraft pointing control algorithms and software for the
upcoming Europa Clipper mission and the next Mars lander mission.
In his 30 years in Defence, Peter Kerr has carried out research on Jindalee/JORN,
High Frequency (HF) Communications, Communications Electronic Warfare, Signals
Intelligence and Satellite Communications, always focusing on radio frequency
technology and systems. Peter has been seconded to academia (UniSA), diplomatic
posting (Counsellor Defence Science, London) and Strategic Policy and Intelligence
Group (Defence Industry Division). He led the Satellite Communications Discipline at
DSTO until 2010 supporting the Australian Defence Force through a research
program in satellite IP networking, satellite resource management, satellite
vulnerability and mobile satellite communications. He was DST’s Program Leader for
Innovation during the initial implementation of the Next Generation Technologies
Fund. During this time he worked across Defence and Government and provided key
contributions to the establishment of elements of the 2016 Defence Industry Policy
Statement including the Defence Innovation Hub, the Defence CRC program and the
USA-Australia Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (AUSMURI). In July
2018, Peter moved to the role of Scientific Advisor to Chief of Joint Operations
Command, the principal scientific advisor to Headquarters JOC. This position helps
focus Defence S&T contributions to the planning and execution of Defence
Operations.
UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Sekeri – Cheiden Str, Pedion Areos, ECE Building, 383 34 Volos, Greece
Prof Alex Chroneos is Professor in computational modelling at the University of
Thessaly and an Honorary Reader at Imperial College London. He previously worked as a Professor at Coventry University, Lecturer in Energy at The Open University and as an Intra-European Marie Curie Fellow at NCSR Demokritos. As a Research Associate he worked on energy materials in Germany (University of Münster), the UK (Imperial College London and Cambridge University) and at MIT (visiting researcher). He gained a PhD from Imperial College London, an MSc in Theoretical Chemistry from Oxford
University, and a BSc in Materials Physics at Imperial College London. He is presently working on numerous electronic and energy systems with applications that include
sensors and batteries. He is the author of more than 350 refereed papers (with over 9300 cites; H-index 62), 3 book chapters, 100 conference presentations and 19 invited or keynote presentations.
Prof Michael Vassilakopoulos obtained a five-year Diploma in Computer Eng. and
Informatics from the University of Patras (Greece) in 1990 and a PhD in Computer
Science from the Department of Electrical and Computer Eng. of the Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki (Greece) in 1995. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of
Database Systems at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the
University of Thessaly (Greece) and has been recently promoted to Professor
(pending appointment). He has taught for more than 25 years in several higher
institutes. Moreover, he has held several administrative positions, including head of
department, director of MSc studies and director of research lab. He has published
over 100 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and conferences and several
chapters in books and collections and lemmas in encyclopedias and has co-edited a
book on Spatial Databases. He has been a member of the program committee /
organizer of special tracks of several conferences and program committee co-chair of
the 25th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI 2021). He has also participated
in / coordinated several R&D projects related to Databases, GIS, WWW, Information
Systems and Employment. His research interests include Algorithms, Data Structures,
Databases, Data Mining, Recommender Systems, GIS, Parallel and Distributed
Computing and Big Data Management.
Prof George Stamoulis got his Diploma from the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens in 1989,
and an M.S. and PhD from the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After one year as
a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa, he joined Intel Corp.
working on CAD tools for power analysis and optimization as a senior CAD
Engineer (1995-1996), as lead of the PowerCAD group (1996-1998), as Manager
of the Santa Clara Annex of the Strategic CAD Laboratories (1998-1999) and as
power manager of the Pentium M project, which became the Centrino platform
(1999-2001). In 2001 joined the Department of Electronic and Computer
Engineering at the Technical University of Crete as Assistant Professor and in
2003 he became Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and
Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Thessaly, where he
became Professor in 2009. From 2003 to 2007 served as Associate Head and
from 2007 to 2011 as Head of the Department. From 2013 to 2018 he was the
Head of the newly formed Computer Science Department. Since 2018 he is the
UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Sekeri – Cheiden Str, Pedion Areos, ECE Building, 383 34 Volos, Greece
Dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Thessaly. His research
interests focus on the analysis and optimization of average and maximum
power of integrated circuits, the analysis and optimization of the maximum
voltage drop on the power supply lines of integrated circuits, low power design,
reliability analysis and optimization, and the application of massively parallel
and deep-learning techniques to the aforementioned problems. He has
authored more than 200 papers in journals and major conferences, claims three
US patents and has more than 1500 references to his work. He has also founded
two startups in the high-tech area. He is a member of the IEEE and the
Technical Chamber of Greece and participates in the program and technical
committees of several international conferences.
Prof Spyros Lalis received his Diploma and PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from
ETHZ. He is a Professor at the ECE Department of the University of Thessaly, Greece. His
interests are in the areas of runtime environments, operating systems, distributed systems, network computing, and ubiquitous computing. His work includes dynamically
reconfigurable systems, significance-aware and approximate computing, VM scheduling,
personal area network systems, wireless sensor/actuator networks and drone-based
systems. He has published over 100 papers in international journals and conferences. He
has attracted significant funding from European and national competitive calls, has
participated in the technical management of several R&D projects and has coordinated a
FET project.
Prof Nicolas R. Dalezios is a Professor of Agrometeorology and Remote Sensing at
the University of Thessaly. He is a member of the Greek Agricultural Academy and
founding Director of the Laboratory of Agrometeorology, University of Thessaly,
Volos Hellas (1991–2011). He holds postgraduate degrees in Meteorology (Athens,
1972) and in Hydrological Engineering (Delft, 1974) and a PhD in Civil Engineering
(University of Waterloo, Canada, 1982). He is the author of Remote Sensing
Applications in Environmental and Earth Systems Sciences (Taylor & Francis Group,
2021) and Environmental Hazards: Methodologies for Risk Assessment and
Management (IWA Publishing, 2017)
UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Sekeri – Cheiden Str, Pedion Areos, ECE Building, 383 34 Volos, Greece
Short Bios of Enterprise Guests
Dr Nicholas Begakis has been involved in Australia’s community and
business landscape for four decades. His past involvements include almost
20 years as Chair of the Women’s and Children’s Hospital Foundation,
inaugural Chair of The Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics
and past Chair of the Adelaide Central Market Authority. He is a former
Director of Business SA, past Chair of Statewide Super and a member of
the Environment Protection Authority (SA). Nicholas has an engineering
degree and has significant commercial experience across several sectors
including manufacturing, venture capital and merchant banking including
M&A and corporate recovery, academia, financial services and as a
professional company director.
| Prof Ioanna Sapfo Pepelasis (Born in the USA), a graduate of Harvard and the London School of Economics, is Professor Emerita in the Department of Economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) and currently a visiting Professor at the University of Athens. She has co-edited Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks: Four Centuries of History, (Berg, 2005), Entrepreneurship in Theory and History (Palgrave, Macmillan 2005) and Country Studies in Entrepreneurship – A Historical Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). She has published articles –on diverse aspects of economic history and the history of enterprise/entrepreneurship of the Diaspora and Greece (18th-21st centuries)- in several international edited volumes and prestigious international refereed journals, among them: Business History, Business History Review, Financial History Review, Journal of European Economic History, Journal of Applied Economics, Managerial and Decision Economics. She received in 2003 a prize from the Ottoman Bank Archive for an article on Greek Diaspora Bankers. She has served on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Maritime History and Business History and has been a referee for the aforementioned and other journals, as well as for Routledge and Oxford Bibliographies. She participated in the first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) in Greece: ‘Entrepreneurship Beyond Silicon Valley: The Greek story’. She heads the following two research projects at AUEB: ‘Entrepreneurial history and History of Institutions’ and ‘The mapping of the startup ecosystem in Athens during the recent economic crisis years’. With her initiative and supervision, a team of undergraduate, post graduate and young alumni of AUEB have created the largest historical data base in these areas. She is also Scientific Coordinator for the Project of diaNEOsis on the Charting of the Greek Startup ecosystem. She has also served as a member of: The Councils of the European Business History, Association and the European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy. In addition, she has also served on the Board of Directors of the Greek Center for Planning and Economic Research and the National School of Dance. She is the initiator and Co-founder of TAKEOFFGREECE. an initiative for the support of 40+/60+ start-uppers in Greece that undertook mentoring and workshops (2015-2018). She is also a Senior Research Fellow at ELIAMEP (Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy) specializing in the Diaspora and Entrepreneurship. |
UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Sekeri – Cheiden Str, Pedion Areos, ECE Building, 383 34 Volos, Greece
Antonis Tzounis is working as Customer Success and field operations lead for Centaur
Analytics. Antonis has a background in informatics and holds an MSc in Computer Science and Networks from the University of the Aegean and the University of Thessaly respectively, and, he is an active Ph.D. student. He joined Centaur back in 2016 as an embedded systems engineer, and also served as a product lead. Over the years he has contributed to the development and testing of the company’s homebrew IoT solutions. This work is today realized in a commercial, patended IoT and cloud analytics product that is able to scale, operate safely and stably in the challenging environments of industrial grain storage facilities, ship holds, rail cars, in more than 30 countries globally.
Dimitri (Jim) Evangelopoulos is a Computer engineer (graduate of ECE, University
of Thessaly), Farmer, Entrepreneur, and Founder & General Manager of Augmenta
Agriculture. The Augmenta system has been awarded EIMA’s First Prize for
‘Technological Innovation’ and the ‘Outstanding Agricultural Aspects Blue Award’ for
2020/21. Along with his co-founder George Varvarelis they used their academic
training in electronics and their farming backgrounds to create the Augmenta System
– the world’s first real-time, camera and AI based VRA hardware platform. Retrofitted
to pre-owned farming equipment and fully supported by a full range of operational
analytics, reports, fleet management tools etc. via the Augmenta Web Portal.
Short Bios of Organizers
Prof Aspassia Daskalopulu obtained her PhD in Computer Science at Imperial College of
Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London. She held academic positions in
the UK at Brunel University, the Open University and King’s College London, and was
engaged in collaborative research with Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories and the
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, before joining the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at the University of Thessaly as Assistant Professor. Her research
interests lie in the area of dynamic normative systems, multiagent systems and smart
energy.
UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Sekeri – Cheiden Str, Pedion Areos, ECE Building, 383 34 Volos, Greece
Prof Steve Bakalis is SmartSat CRC Ambassador to Greece. Steve completed his doctoral studies at La Trobe University in the area of computable general equilibrium modelling. His
professional and research background includes the role of international business and diaspora entrepreneurship/networks. He has also engaged with the development and management of transnational education ventures and projects, especially in the Asia Pacific region in Malaysia, China, and Thailand. He worked for the Ministry of Higher Education in Oman and led the establishment of a School of International Business, including the development of international linkages and partnerships. He has held adjunct appointments with the Australian National University, University of Adelaide, and is currently an honorary professor at The Central University of Finance and Economics (Beijing-China).