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George Stamou
Coordinator
Professor, Director of the AILS Lab / NTUA
Dr Giorgos Stamou is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, National Technical University of Athens, in the area of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. His research interests include description logics, logic programming, fuzzy logic, neural networks, ontologies, digital archives, semantic annotation and semantic interoperability. He has published more than 140 papers in scientific Journals and Conference Proceedings, co-edited a books (‘Multimedia Content and the Semantic Web’ published by Wiley) and two Conference Proceedings (Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on OWL Reasoner Evaluation (ORE-2015) CEUR Workshop Proceedings 1387, Reasoning on the Web in the Big Data Era – 10th International Summer School 2014, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8714, Springer 2014) and one monograph (Ontological Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, in greek), served as organiser or member of the organisation committees of Conferences, and has been working in more than 50 research projects, in the above areas. He was the W3C AC rep of NTUA in Rule Interchange Format WG, Web Ontology Language WG, Uncertainty Reasoning for the Web (URW3) XG and a Steering Committee member of RuleML co-chairing the Fuzzy RuleML Technical Group. From September 2011 to March 2012 he was an academic visitor of Oxford University, Information Systems Laboratory. He has >4200 citation and a 31 h-index (according to Google Scholar).
Anastasia Georgaki
Professor, Head of the Department of Music Studies, Head of the LabMat / NKUA
Anastasia Georgaki Since 2002, is a Professor in Music Technology at the Music Department of the University of Athens. Since 2008 she has taught three different Master programs at the University of Athens and the School of the Fine Arts. She has participated in many international computer music and musicological conferences and has published a number of articles concerning the synthesis of the singing voice, the interactive music systems, the Greek electroacoustic music (Xenakis, Adamis, Logothetis), physical modeling of instruments, music technology in education. She has chaired as a member of the organizing committee five symposia as: music and computers (Ionian University, 1998), First Greek Symposium on Music Informatics (Ionian University, 2000), International Symposium Iannis Xenakis (University of Athens, 2005), SMC07 (Lefkada, 2007) and Pythagorean views on music and mathematics (Pythagorion, 2009). She has collaborated also with the Greek research institute ILSP in music information retrieval European projects (Wedelmusic), with IEMA, with the Voice lab of the Computer science department, with the ONASSIS STEGI, with IRCAM, etc. Her research projects focus on the analysis and acoustics/psychoacoustics of the Greek singing voice, controlling synthetic voices through a MIDI-accordion, as also the development of tools for the application of new technologies in music creation and technology in education. She is a member of numerous committees in Greece and abroad. She is a professional accordion player and active musician.
George Kosteletos
Research Fellow / NKUA
Dr. George Kosteletos is Research Fellow at The NKUA Applied Philosophy Research Laboratory and academic fellow at the University Mental Health Research Institute (NKUA) where he conducts research in the field of Moral Psychology. He teaches Ethics of Artificial Intelligence as an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Neuroethics as an adjunct lecturer at the Open University of Cyprus. He holds a PhD in Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. His areas of interest include also Philosophy of Cognitive Sciences and Philosophy of Mind. He has published papers and articles in international peer-reviewed academic journals and edited collections.
Areti Andreopoulou
Assistant Professor / NKUA
Dr. Areti Andreopoulou is an Assistant Professor in Music Technology, at the Department of Music Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses pertinent to the scientific field of Music Technology. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music Studies from the Department of Studies, NKUA (2005) and a Master’s (2008) and a Ph.D degree (2014) in Music Technology from New York University. She conducts research as a member of the Laboratory of Music Acoustics and Technology (LabMAT) NKUA. Her fields of interest include but are not limited to 3D and spatial audio, the design and evaluation of immersive auditory environments, auditory displays, multimodal interactions, data sonification, acoustics, and audio signal processing.
Edmund Dervakos
Post-Doc Researcher / NTUA
Edmund Dervakos is a PhD student at the Artificial Intelligence and Learning Systems Laboratory lab at NTUA. His undergraduate thesis was “Automatic Audio Chord Estimation with Machine Learning Methods”. His current research revolves around “Creative Computer Systems” – using artificial intelligence to simulate human creativity – with the primary domain being Music. Emphasis is given on the human-computer interaction aspect of these systems and how humans can boost computers’ creativity and vice versa. To this end he is also broadly researching human-in-the-loop systems and areas such as Active Learning.
Natalia Kotsani
PhD Researcher / NTUA
Natalia Kotsani is a graduate of the School of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences of NTUA and a PhD candidate in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of NTUA, under the supervision of Prof. D. Fotakis. She completed the Masters Degree Program «Jazz Music Performance and New Technologies» of UOA, in 2019, and has since been in the team of Scientific Associates of the Music Acoustic and Technology Laboratory (LabMAT) of UOA. She studied singing techniques and vocal performance, music theory with Ch. Kanas, classical piano with D. Mallouchos and jazz piano with S. Lantsias. Since 2009 she has been an active musician and vocalist of the world music scene, having many concerts in Greece and abroad as well as numerous collaborations and two personal albums. Since 2011 she is a member of the band encardia.
Giorgos Filandrianos
PhD Researcher / NTUA
Giorgos Filandrianos was born in Kalamata, Greece in 1995. He graduated from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2019. Since then, he is a Ph.D Candidate at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. His research interests include Algorithms, Artificial Intelligent, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision.
Spyros Kantarelis
PhD Researcher / NTUA
Spyros Kantarelis is a graduate of the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering of NTUA and a PhD student at the Artificial Intelligence and Learning Systems Laboratory of NTUA, under the supervision of Prof. G. Stamou. His current research revolves around the applications of Artificial Intelligence in the Music domain, especially on automatic music analysis using symbolic music data. His research interests include Knowledge Representation and Reasoning and Ontology Engineering. He has studied Advanced Music Theory and accordion at the National Conservatory of Athens with K. Tsilidis, where he received his Fugue and Accordion diploma.
Vassilis Lyberatos
PhD Researcher / NTUA
Vassilis Lyberatos is a PhD student under the supervision of Dr Stamou. He is a researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Music Information Retrieval, since 2021. He research interests include also Explainable Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Graphs.
Kostas Katsantonis
Musicologist, Sound Engineering / NKUA
Kostas Katsantonis is a music technologist, music producer, music/electric guitar and music technology teacher. He studied at the Department of Music Studies and has a Master’s degree in ICT with a specialization in music pedagogy. He is an external collaborator at the Studio “Music Acoustics and Technology” of the University of Athens in the production of audiovisual material, and a teacher assistant (Mr. Anastasia Georgaki, deputy chairman of TMS, director of the Laboratory of Music Acoustics and Technology) in courses of sound recording, electronic orchestration, electronic composition, Cubase etc. He has collaborated with institutions such as the State House of Arts and Letters, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the National Opera (Experimental Stage), Documenta 14 etc., in the fields of sound recording, mixing and mastering. He has many years of experience in recordings of acoustic instruments and orchestra ensembles (ASON, Banda del Sol, Philarmonia etc) as well as in live sound at events of the Kapodistrian University and elsewhere.
Giotis Kiourtsoglou
Musician
Yiotis Kiourtzoglou started practicing guitar in 1981. His first influences were traditional, rock and soul music. In 1983 he turned to electric bass and started listening to jazz. He also studied Jazz Harmony and Theory with Theo Kapilidis. Along with Theo Kapilidis and Nikos Kapilidis, they created Electric Jazz Trio. In 1988 he attended the Musicians Institute of Los Angeles where he was taught the electric bass technique by great teachers such as Gary Willis, Bob Magnuson and Jeff Berlin. He also performed live in many clubs in L.A. While living in America he had the chance to watch great musicians and to appreciate their music, their technique and their philosophy of life and of the relationship between life and music. In 1989 he graduated from the M.I. and was awarded as “the most improved student of the year” while he was nominated as “the most outstanding player”. When he returned to Greece he performed with Electric Jazz Trio in the jazz club Mantato in Thessalonica with the saxophone player Manny Boyd and the trumpet player Danny Hayes. He is a member of the band Human Touch, performing in Greece and abroad, next to some of the greatest musicians of the world’s scene.
Akis Amprazis
Musician
Akis Ambrazis is a musician (Electric Bass), a member of Pyx Lax for the last two years. His many years of collaboration with Lavrentis Maharitsa (1999-2019) established him through the collaborations of the artist with the biggest names of the Greek music scene (D. Mitropano, G. Dalara, D. Savvopoulos, V. Papakonstantinou, E. Arvanitaki, D. Tsakni, G. Kotsira, M. Paschalidi, K. Makedona, G. Zouganeli, S. Boula, Kitrina Podilata etc.) as a musician and recording technician. Before 1999 he lived in the USA where he was a member of Mary Karlzen’s band, who was an Atlantic Records artist, doing a series of concerts that lasted 18 months all over the country. From 1986 to 1992 he lived in Lyon, France, as a musician and member of Parkinson Square, a band which had some resonance in the musical events of the country. From 1982 to 1986 he was a founding member of the band “Genia tou Chaous”, which had a relatively large impact on the then developing new music scene, with intense political and social action. He started from his birthplace Karditsa at the end of the 70s, playing with different local bands, as well as with unknown until then fellow citizen and “teacher” of Dionysis Tsaknis.