Invited Speakers

Dionissios Hristopulos is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technical University of Crete (TUC) in Greece and director of the Master’s program in Machine Learning and Data Science since 2022.  He holds a Diploma in Electrical Engineering (National Technical University of Athens) and a PhD in Physics from Princeton University. He has held appointments in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada (FPInnovations).  Dionissios returned to Greece in 2022 as associate professor in Geostatistics in the School of Mineral Resources Engineering at TUC.  He is a Senior member of the IEEE, member of the American Physical Society, and life member of the International Association of Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG). In 2003 he received jointly with Tetsu Uesaka the Johannes A. Van den Akker International Prize for Advances in Paper Physics. Recently, Dionissios was awarded the 2024 Georges Matheron lectureship by the IAMG. He serves on the editorial boards of Computers & Geosciences and Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. Dionissios is the author of the book titled «Random Fields for Spatial Data Modeling: A Primer for Scientists and Engineers» (published by Springer in 2020).  His current research interests include spatiotemporal statistics, statistical physics, machine learning and applications in problems related to the environment, energy, natural resources and neuroscience.

Dr. Kyriakidis’s research interests include geostatistics, geocomputation, and geoinformatics, as well as their applications to geographic information science and systems, remote sensing, earth, atmospheric and environmental sciences, as well as public health and archaeology. He has co-authored more than 65 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and has made numerous contributions in conference proceedings and edited volumes. He has co-authored (with Andre Journel) the book entitled “Evaluation of Mineral Reserves: A Simulation Approach”, published in 2004 by Oxford University Press. He has received a best full paper award (with Rui Zhu and Krzysztof Janowicz from UCSB) for his 2017 AGILE conference paper on quantifying spatial patterns in geographic fields, a best paper award in the journal Mathematical Geosciences for his 2013 publication (with Petros Gaganis from the University of the Aegean) on efficient simulation of (log)normal random fields for hydrogeological applications. He has also been an invited keynote speaker in several international workshops and conferences, the most recent one being the “Scale and Spatial Analytics Workshop” organized in February 2020 by the Spatial Analysis Research Center of the Arizona State University in the USA. His research has been funded by the US National Science Foundation, NASA, NOAA, the Greek Secretariat for Research and Technology, as well as (more recently) by the European Commission and the Research and Innovation Foundation of Cyprus. He is currently the Principal Investigator (PI) on two research projects coordinated by CUT, and the CUT-PI on two other projects, all funded by the Research and Innovation Foundation of Cyprus.

Dr. Kyriakidis has served on the Scientific Committees of numerous international conferences and has reviewed manuscripts and proposals for a wide spectrum of scientific journals and international funding agencies, respectively. He is currently a member of the Editorial Boards of Cartographica (since 2018), and of Spatial Statistics (since 2012). He has served as an Associate Editor for Geographical Analysis (2014-2107), a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Geographical Information Science (2007-2017), as well as a Board Member of the Hellenic Geographic Information Systems Society (2015-2016). He is a member elect (since 2018) of the Council of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE), and was the Chair of the Scientific Committee of AGILE 2019, the 22nd AGILE Conference on Geoinformation Science organized at CUT’s premises in Limassol in June 2019.