Professional, Academic and Public Service

Academic Journals

• Associate Editor. Computing, Springer.
• Associate Editor. ACM Computing Surveys, ACM.

Conference, Workshop and Seminar Organization

• Program co-Chair. 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (EuroPar), 28 August – 1 September 2023.
• Track Chair. 19th IEEE International Conference on e-Science, October 9-13, 2023.
• Steering Committee Member. IEEE Global Conference on Internet of Things (IEEE GCIOT), 2019-2022.
• General co-Chair. 19th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium in Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2019), Larnaca, Cyprus, May 14-17, 2019.
• Track Chair, "Web of Data" track, IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, 20-23 October 2019
• General Chair, 4th Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum 2019. April 19, 2019, Nicosia, Cyprus.
• Steeting Committee Member. IEEE Global Conference on Internet of Things (IEEE GCIOT), Alexandria, Egypt, 2018.
• General co-Chair. 3rd Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum 2017. November 28, 2017, Nicosia, Cyprus.
• General Chair, 5th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS 2015), Limassol, Cyprus, July 2015.
• Workshop Organizer, Information and Communication Technologies in the Horizon 2020 Opportunities and Challenges for Cyprus, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, December 2, 2013.
• General co-Chair, Annual Privacy Forum 2013 (organized by ENISA, the E.C. and the U. of Cyprus, under the auspices of the Cyprus Presidency of the European Council). Limassol, Cyprus, October 10-11, 2012.
• Program Committee Vice-Chair, Autonomic Computing and Cyberinfrastructure. The 13th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2013), Delft, The Netherlands, 2013.
• General Chair, Cloud Computing in Cyprus: Opportunities and Challenges, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, May 23, 2012.
• Local Chair and Program Committee Member, Support Tools and Environments Track, 18th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2012), Rhodes, Greece, 2012.
• Local Organizing Committee co-Chair, European Wireless 2005, Nicosia, Cyprus.
• Co-chair, Internet Data Management Track, 2004 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2004).
• Program Committee Chair and Local Organizing Chair, 2nd European Across Grids Conference and 2nd IST Concertation Meeting on Grid Research, Nicosia, January 28-30, 2004.
• Chair of the Organizing Committee, CrossGrid Annual Conference 2004.
• Chair, ANWIRE Winter School on Middleware, Nicosia, January 20-23, 2004.
• Chair, Cyprus Grid Day , Nicosia, March 26, 2003 and APART Workshop, Larnaca, March 27-28, 2003.
• Prorgam Committee Chair, Mobile Services Workshop, 8th Pan-Hellenic Conference of Informatics, Nicosia, Cyprus, Nov. 8, 2001.
• Chair, Research Funding under the 5th Framework Program, University of Cyprus, Nov. 6th, 1998.
• Chair, Information Society: Views and Perspectives, University of Cyprus, Winter Semester, 1996.

Conference Committee Participation

• Program Committee Member. 31st International Symposium on the Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2023).
• Program Committee Member. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2023).
• Program Committee Member. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2022).
• Program Committee Member. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2021). Online Conference.
• Program Committee Member. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2020). Online Conference.
• Program Committee Member. 2019 IEEE International Congress on Big Data (IEEE BigData Congress 2019).
• Program Committee Member. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data. December 10-13, 2018, Seattle, WA, USA.
• Program Committee Member. 2018 IEEE International Congress on Big Data (IEEE BigData Congress 2018). July 2-7, 2018, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Program Committee Member. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data. December 11-14, 2017, Boston, USA.
• Program Committee Member. 6th IEEE International Congress on Big Data (BigData Congress 2017). June 25 - June 30, 2017, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
• Program Committee Member. 5th IEEE International Congress on Big Data (BigData Congress 2016). June 27-July 2, 2016. San Francisco, USA.
• Vice Chair, Datacenters and Cyberinfrastructure Track. IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2016: 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing. Cartagena, Colombia, May 16-19, 2016.
• Program Committee Member. The First Workshop on Data Mining for Smart Cities (DMCITIES2015). In conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining 2015. Atlantic City, NJ, USA.
• Program Committee Member. 21st International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2015), Vienna, Austria, 2015.
• Program Committee Member, 15th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE) 2014, Thessaloniki, Greece, October 2014.
• Program Committee Member, First International Workshop on Elasticity Mechanisms for Software-Defined Environments (EMSE’14). In conjunction with ICDCS 2014.
• Program Committee Member, 11th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2014), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, June 27-July 2 2014.
• Program Committee Member, 5th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2013), Kyoto, Japan, 25–27 November 2013.
• Program Committee Member, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Silicon Valley, California, USA, October 6-9, 2013.
• Program Committee Member, IWCMC2013-Mobile Computing (2013 Mobile Computing Symposium. 9th IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference. Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, July 2013.
• Program Committee Member, The 4th International Conference on Social Informatics, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2012.
• Session Chair. 18th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2012), Rhodes, Greece, 2012.
• Program Committee Member, First IEEE International Conference on Internet Operating Systems, Irvine, California, March 2012.
• Program Committee Member, European Grid Initiative Community Forum 2012, Garching, Munich, March 2012.
• Program Committee Member, The Third International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo'11), Singapore.
• Program Committee Member, COMSWARE 2011, Verona, Italy.
• Program Committee Member, PDP 2011 - The 19th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing, Ayia Napa, Cyprus.
• Program Committee Member, 9th Hellenic Data Management Symposium 2010, Ayia Napa, Cyprus.
• Program Committee Member, Panhellenic Conference on Informatics 2010.
• Program Committee Member, Panhellenic Conference on Informatics 2009.
• Program Committee Member, BADS 2009: Workshop on Bio-Inspired Algorithms for Distributed Systems, in conjunction with the 6th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing Barcelona, Spain, June 15-19, 2009.
• Program Committee Member, 9th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing 2009,Taipei, Taiwan.
• Program Committee Member, 3rd International Workshop on High Performance Grid Middleware - HiPerGrid, Bucharest, Romania, May 28, 2009.
• Program Committee Member, 2nd International Workshop on High Performance Grid Middleware - HiPerGrid, Bucharest, Romania, November 21-22, 2008.
• Program Committee Member, Panhellenic Conference on Informatics 2008.
• Program Committee Member, 3rd Workshop on the Use of P2P, GRID and Agents for the Development of Content Networks (UPGRADE-CN'08), in conjunction with HPDC 2008.
• Topic Chair and Program Committee Member, Track on Support Tools and Environments, 14th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2008).
• Program Commitee Member, 8th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2008).
• Program Commitee Member, HiPerGRID - High Performance Grid Middleware Workshop (in conjunction with PACT 2007).
• Program Commitee Member, International Symposium on Grid computing, high-performance and Distributed Applications (GADA'07).
• Program Committee Member, CoreGRID Symposium (in conjunction with Euro-Par 2007).
• Vice-Chair and Program Committee Member, Track on Support Tools and Environments, 13th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2007).
• Program Vice Chair, IEEE 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-07) (Special track on Internet Computing and Web Applications).
• Program Commitee Member, 2006 ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM06).
• Program Commitee Member, International Symposium on Grid computing, high-performance and Distributed Applications (GADA'06).
• Program Vice Chair for Wireless and Mobile Computing, Second International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-06).
• Program Committee Member, 11th International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments HIPS 2006, held in conjunction with IPDPS 2006, Rhodes, Greece.
• Program Committee Member, The 2005 Int.Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-05), Sorrento, September 2005, Italy.
• Program Committee Vice Chair, 2005 International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS-05), Track on Middleware and P2P Computing , Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, December 2005, P.R. China.
• Program Committee Member, PDP06 Conference (14th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network based Processing) , Montbéliard-Sochaux, February 2005, France.
• International Technical Program Committee Member, 2005 High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPC&S'05) Conference (in conjunction with the 19th European Simulation Multiconference, ESM 2005).
• Vice-Chair and Program Committee Member, Track on Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing, Euro-Par 2005.
• Program Committee Member, European Grid Conference 2005.
• Local Organizing Committee Chair, 6th European Wireless Conference ( EW2005), April 2005.
• Program Committee Member, 6th European Wireless Conference ( EW2005), April 2005.
• Program Committee Member, IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2005).
• Program Committee Member, International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-04), August 16-28, 2004, Aizu, Japan.
• Technical Papers Committee Member, Supercomputing 2003.
• Program Committee Member, 1st ANWIRE International Workshop on "Wireless, Mobile and Always Best Connected" (in conjunction with 5th IEE EPMCC 2003 Conference).
• Program Committee Member and International Advisory Board Member, 1st Across Grids Conference, February 2003.
• Program Committee Member, International Conference on the World-Wide Web 2003.
• Session Chair, Euro-Par 2001.
• Program Committee Member, Euro-Par 2001.
• Vice-Chair, Core Topic: "Support Tools and Environments," Euro-Par 2001.
• Workshop Chair, Workshop on Mobile Services, 8th Panhellenic Conference of Informatics, November 2001.
• Program Committee Member, 8th Panhellenic Conference of Informatics, November 2001.
• Session Chair, PADDA 2001: International Workshop on Performance-oriented Application Development for Distributed Architectures, April 19, 2001.
• Program Committee Member, PADDA 2001: International Workshop on Performance-oriented Application Development for Distributed Architectures.
• Workshops' General Chair & Chair, Workshop on New Business Development, Re-engineering Cyprus for the Digital Age: New Businesses and New Jobs  (December 1999, Nicosia, Cyprus).
• Organizing Committee Member, Re-engineering Cyprus for the Digital Age: New Businesses and New Jobs  (December 1999, Nicosia, Cyprus).
• Technical Program Committee Member, Melecon '2000: 10th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference.
• Web-site Chair, International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT '99).
• Program Committee Member, International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT '99).
• Session Chair, Euromednet '98 Conference, Nicosia, Cyprus, March 1998.  

University Service

• Member of the Council for Entrepreneurship, Univ. of Cyprus (5/2022)
• Director, Centre for Entrepreneurship, Univ. of Cyprus (2015-2021)
• Member of the University's Senate, Univ. of Cyprus (elected by the Council of the School of Pure and Applied Sciences, 2017-2021).
• Head, Computer Science Department, Univ. of Cyprus (elected, 11/201011/2012; re-elected, 11/2012-11/2014).
• Vice Chairman of Computer Science, Univ. of Cyprus (elected, 5/2008-11/2010).
• Member of the School Council, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Cyprus (ex officio representative of the Department of Computer Science, November 2010-today).
• Member of the Senate’s Ad-Hoc Committee on IT User Policy, University of Cyprus (appointed by the Senate of the University of Cyprus, 2012-2013).
• Member of the Senate’s Ad-Hoc Committee on University Electoral System, University of Cyprus (appointed by the Senate of the University of Cyprus, 2012-2013).
• Member of the Senate’s Ad-Hoc Committee on the University Web Site, University of Cyprus (appointed by the Senate of the University of Cyprus, 2011-today).
• Member of the Senate’s Committee of Graduate Studies, University of Cyprus (2006-2008).
• Graduate Studies Coordinator, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Cyprus (2005-2008).
• Chairman, Departmental Committee for reorganization of M.Sc. Programs and the Computer Science Department (2007).
• Member of the School Council, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Cyprus (elected by the Department of Computer Science Board, February 2003-2005).
• Member of the Ad-Hoc Committee on eLearning, University of Cyprus (appointed by the Senate of the University of Cyprus, November 2002-2003).
• Member of the Senate's Committee on Post-Graduate Studies, Univ. of Cyprus (appointed, 3/2007-3/2009).
• Member of the Senate's Committee on Student Problems, Univ. of Cyprus (appointed, 2007).
• Coordinator of Graduate Studies, Department of Computer Science, Univ. of Cyprus (9/2005-6/2008).
• Member of the Senate's Ad-Hoc Committee on e-Learning, Univ. of Cyprus (2004).
• Board Member, School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Cyprus (2003-2004).

Public Service

• Member, Advisory Board, National Advisory Committee for the Information Society, Ministry of Communications and Works, Republic of Cyprus (April 2012-2015).
• Member, Advisory Council, Cyprus State Library, Nicosia, Cyprus (appointed by the Council of Ministers, Republic of Cyprus, May 2009-May 2012).
• Member, Evaluation Committee, Cyprus Council for the Recognition of Higher Education Qualifications (KY.S.A.T.S.), Republic of Cyprus (appointed by the Board of Directors, Spring 2010).
• Member, Scientific Board, Center of Interactive Learning – L. Pouroullis Center, Panycprian Lyceum, Nicosia, Cyprus (appointed by the Minister of Education and Culture, March 2010-June 2012).
• Member, Board of Directors, Intensive Care Forum (NGO), Nicosia, Cyprus (2007-2009).
• Founding Director, SafeWeb Hotline against illegal content on the Internet, Nicosia, Cyprus (2005-2008).
• National Delegate of Cyprus, Managing Committee of the Information Society and Technologies Programme (IST Committee - ISTC), Framework Programme 5, European Union (appointed by the Minister of Finance, Republic of Cyprus, February 2000-July 2002).

Parliamentary Testimonies

• "Testimony to the Parliamentary Committee of Law on the Freedom of Speech in Blogs and the Extent of Law Enforcement in these Media." House of Representatives, Republic of Cyprus, June 3, 2010 (pdf).
• "Testimony to the Parliamentary Committee of Institutions, Values and Citizens' Advocate on Electronic Gambling and Measures Against it." House of Representatives, Republic of Cyprus, March 29 and April 2, 2009.
• "Testimony to the Parliamentary Committee of Criminality on the problem of child pornography and other illegal content distribution on the Internet." House of Representatives, Republic of Cyprus, April 18, 2007.
• "Testimony to the Parliamentary Committee of Education on the problems that may arise because of the use of Internet by pupils and required protective measures." House of Representatives, Republic of Cyprus, October 3, 2006.