A Panel Discussion on Careers, Inclusion and Equality
Date: Friday, 14 June 2024
Time: 10:30-12:30
Venue: University of Cyprus, Library – Stelios Ioannou Learning Resource Center, Amfitheatre Filippos Tsimpoglou (Room 012)
Panel’s Registration: link
What lies ahead? Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on the Transformation of Work, the Future of Computing Careers, Inclusion and Equality
Participants
Dr. Margarita Chli
Professor of Robotic Vision and the director of the Vision for Robotics Lab at the University of Cyprus and ETH Zurich.
Bio: Margarita Chli is a Professor of Robotic Vision and the director of the Vision for Robotics Lab, at the University of Cyprus and ETH Zurich. Her work has contributed to the first vision-based autonomous flight of a small drone and the first demonstration of collaborative monocular SLAM for a small swarm of drones. Margarita has given invited keynotes at the World Economic Forum in Davos, TEDx, and ICRA, and she was featured in Robohub’s 2016 list of “25 women in Robotics you need to know about”. Recently, she won the ERC Consolidator Grant, one of the most prestigious grants in Europe for blue-sky research, to grow her team at the University of Cyprus to research advanced robotic perception.
Prof. Panagiota Fatourou
Professor of Computer Science, Dept of Computer Science, University of Crete and Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH).
Bio: Panagiota Fatourou is a Professor at the University of Crete and the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH). She has worked as a Marie-Curie Individual Fellow at Université Paris Cité, as a visiting Professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and as a visiting researcher at the University of York and the University of Toronto. She has been a postdoc at Max-Planck Institut für Informatik and at the University of Toronto, and a visiting postdoc at the University of Brown. Her research interests focus on all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. P. Fatourou has served as the chair of the ACM Europe Council (October 2019 – June 2021). Since July 2015, she is an elected member of the Council, currently serving as the Past Chair. She has served as the editor of the Distributed Computing Column of the Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (BEATCS), and as the General Chair of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2013). She has also served as a member-at-large of the steering committees of PODC and OPODIS. She has been the PC co-Chair of the 20th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2016), and of the 19th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2017). She has served as an ACM Distinguished Speaker and a Featured ACM Member. She has received several awards and distinctions for her work.
Ms. Eftychia Frangeskou
Senior Technology Software Sales Manager for Cyprus & Malta, Computer Science & Management Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Bio: Eftychia graduated from the University of London with a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Management Studies. She has been working for Oracle Cyprus since 2008 and is currently the Senior Technology Software Sales Manager for Oracle Cyprus & Malta. Prior to her tenure at Oracle, she spent seven years at IBM Cyprus as the Software Account Manager. With over 26 years of experience in the IT industry, Eftychia has a profound understanding of Data Management, Maximum Availability Architecture Strategies, Digital Transformation, and Systems Integration. Her expertise spans primarily the Financial Services sector, but she is also well-versed in the Public sector. Eftychia is actively involved in the business community, serving as a Member of the American Chamber (AmCham) Women in Business Subcommittee and the CITEA’s Women in Tech Committee, representing Oracle.
Dr. Antonia Michael
General Manager of IBM Cyprus. Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, Imperial College London.
Bio: Graduated from the University of London in Computer Science B.Sc. with first class honors. Holds an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence with merit from Imperial College London. She has worked on AI scientific research at Imperial College and at the University of Cyprus, with publications and presentations in international conferences and journals. Antonia is the general manager of IBM in Cyprus since 2021. She worked in the Business Consulting unit of IBM Greece and then Cyprus for over 20 years and has led the unit in Cyprus for 5 years. She has extensive knowledge and experience around Digital Transformation Strategies, Business Automation, Systems Integration and Artificial Intelligence. She poses many years of experience in the Public, Healthcare and the Banking sectors. She is a Board Member of the American Chamber (AmCham), Cyprus Chamber of Industry & Commerce (OEB) and KEBE, representing IBM.
Dr. Xenia Miscouridou
Lecturer, Dept of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Cyprus. Honorary Visiting Lecturer at Imperial College London and Imperial X.
Bio: Xenia Miscouridou is working in the broader area of Statistical Machine Learning combining statistics and machine learning for the development of explainable yet efficient methodology. Her focus is on (graph) network modelling, explainable neural networks and spatiotemporal modelling. Xenia was listed as one of the Forbes under 30 in Europe in the sector of Science and Healthcare in 2022 and has recently won a Marie Curie EU fellowship. She obtained her PhD from the University of Oxford during which she held research visits and appointments with NYU, the Alan Turing Institute in London and Google Zurich, and subsequently worked as a Machine Learning Scientist at Investments AI, in AIG.
Moderator
Prof. Elpida Keravnou-Papailiou
Professor of Computer Science, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Cyprus
Bio: Elpida Keravnou-Papailiou is Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus. Undergraduate studies at Brunel University, UK (B. Tech. in Computer Science, 1982). Graduate studies at Brunel University, UK (Ph.D. in Cybernetics, 1985). She has taught at University College London, UK (Lecturer, 1985-1991; Senior Lecturer, 1991-1992). She is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Elsevier) since the launching of the journal in 1989, and of the open access journal Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience (Hindawi Publishing Corporation –www.hindawi.com/journals/aai). During the period 2003-2005 she served as Chair of the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe (AIME) Board. Her research interests include Knowledge Engineering, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Expert Systems, Deep Knowledge Models, Diagnostic Reasoning, Temporal Information Systems in Medicine, Temporal Reasoning and Temporal Data Abstraction, Hybrid Decision Support Systems. In addition to her publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings she has (co)authored seven scientific books published by Springer, Elsevier, Kluwer, Kogan-Page, Chapman and Hall, Abacus Press, and the Greek Open University. She has guest-edited or co-guest-edited ten special issues of the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, the latest (co-guest edited with T. Chen and G. Antoniou and published in 2021) being a thematic issue on Medical Analytics for Healthcare Intelligence: Recent advances and future directions.She has served as a Member of the Governing Board (June 2012 –June 2018) and of the Executive Committee (July 2014 –June 2018) of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT-www.eit.europa.eu). She is a Fellow of the 2021 class of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics.