CURRICULUM VITAE DR. GEORGIOS A. DEMETRIOU

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1 GEORGIOS A. DEMETRIOU, PH.D. Zan Nt Ark Lemesos Cyprus Tel: s: Web: CURRICULUM VITAE DR. GEORGIOS A. DEMETRIOU AFFILIATION Dr. Georgios A. Demetriou Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Frederick University Cyprus Lemesos, Cyprus Tel: s: Website: CAREER OBJECTIVE To seek increasingly challenging positions in the Computer Science and Computer Engineering domain which require educational, research and developmental, organizational, and managerial skills. To lead and enhance University departments, research and development centers and develop interdisciplinary programs emphasizing research cooperation and collaboration between academia and industry. To seek challenging research and management positions in nationally/internationally recognized industrial research and development centers. CURRICULUM VITAE OUTLINE PART I: Career Summary - Professional and Administrative Experience PART II: Research Interests, Experience and Publications PART III: Academic and Teaching Experience PART IV: Professional Activities and other Academic Accomplishments PART V: References

2 PART I EDUCATION Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1998 University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL) Center for Advanced Computer Studies Ph.D. Dissertation Title: Hybrid Control Architecture for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) M.S. in Computer Engineering, May 1994 University of Louisiana at Lafayette Center for Advanced Computer Studies B.S. in Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering Option), December 1990 University of Southwestern Louisiana PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE University and Department Administrative Experience University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast (USM-GC) Long Beach, Mississippi, USA Coordinator of the Computer Science Graduate and Undergraduate Department. Director for the Robotics and Computer Graphics Laboratory. Teaching Experience Frederick University Cyprus Lemesos, Cyprus 2006 Present Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Purdue University, Fort Wayne (IPFW) Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering. University of Southern Mississippi (USM) Long Beach, Mississippi, USA Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Computer Science Department Coordinator. Computer Science Graduate Coordinator. 2

3 University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL) Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering Department (EECE) January May 1998 Adjunct Professor of Computer Engineering. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Learning Center Tutor of Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Physics. Industry Experience US Test, Inc. Broussard, Louisiana, USA November 1998 December 1999 Systems Engineer - Designed and developed testing equipment for underground gas tanks. The systems use ultra sound to perform the tests. Computer Consultant Computer Upgrades/Repairs, Software Installation, Networking, Systems Analysis. Military Ethnici Froura (Cyprus Military) First Lieutenant (Green Berets - Special Forces). Other Experience University of Louisiana at Lafayette Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS) Computer/Systems Administrator University of Louisiana at Lafayette Apparel and Computer Integrated Manufacturing Center Computer/Systems Administrator 3

4 PART II RESEARCH INTERESTS Intelligence Systems Modeling, control and coordination, integrated control and diagnostics of intelligent systems / robotic systems. Modeling, control, coordination and performance evaluation of distributed systems (including multi-operational production systems). Petri Net / Hybrid Petri Net / Modular Petri Net Theory and Applications. Robotic Systems Information / sensor fusion, control and coordination of multisensory robotic systems. Guidance, navigation, control and collision avoidance of robotic systems. Design and testing of controllers for autonomous robot vehicle navigation. Computer Graphics / Visualization / Virtual Reality Computer graphics implementation using the OpenGL API. Modeling and Simulation of real time systems. Virtual environments for training and education. Applications Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV), and Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV). Sensor based navigation of mobile robots. Virtual environment based modeling, control and simulation of robotic manipulators, mobile robots, AUVs and CIM systems. Virtual Environments for education. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE An Extensible Object Oriented Virtual Robotics Development Platform for use in Robotics Education and Research. VisiLogic: An Intelligent Tutorial for Teaching Logic Design. An Algorithm for Geolocation: Marine Buoys in a Fully Immersive Three Dimensional Bathymetric Environment. Design real-time Robotic Control Systems, using MatLab and MatLab Control Systems Toolbox. OpenRL: An Open Library API for Controlling Robotic Systems. Mobile robotic system used for the test and development of the OpenRL API. Robocub Soccer Simulator Middleware Code. Control Representation Formulation for Approximation of Classes of Swarm Behavior using Machine Learning. Development of the Control Architecture of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). Simulation of manufacturing cells with realistic constraints using the SILMA CimStation packages. This project received national award from Silma Inc. Tele-operation of the PUMA 560 and Adept robot arms using Virtual Reality models. Derivation of Dynamic Equations of motion for the Puma Robot Arm Mark II Series. Virtual Reality Environments for Teaching Biology and Environmental Sciences. 4

5 PROPOSALS/GRANTS ΠΔΕ Title: ΠΑΝΟΠΤΗΣ: Heterogeneous, Aerial-Ground Robot Vehicle Team Control, Coordination and Integration for Automated Surveilance, Search and Rescue Under Review DARPA BAA Title: Persistent Ocean Surveillance - Station Keeping CAREER NSF Proposal Number: Title: Development of a Robotics and Graphics Laboratory at the University of Southern Mississippi-Gulf Coast. CAREER NSF Proposal Number: Title: Virtual Environments for Biology and Environmental Education. Mississippi Department of Transportation. Title: Traffic and Intersection Simulation/Visualization. FUNDING University of Southern Mississippi Research Support Fund, Equipment Grant for Robotics Lab, amount $5,500, University of Southern Mississippi Research Support Fund, Equipment Grant for Graphics Lab, amount $3,000, Object Identification, Classification and Avoidance in 3-D Underwater Automated Surveillance, National Science Foundation, (BES ); amount: $270, for three years ( ). EDITED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Associate Editor for the Proceeding of the 2007 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI 07), Vol. I and II, June, 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Associate Editor for the Proceeding of the 2006 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI 06), Vol. I and II, June, 2006, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. PUBLICATIONS Ph.D. Dissertation 1. G. Demetriou, Hybrid Control Architecture for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Journal Papers 2. G. Demetriou, G. Simmons, VisiLogic: Digital Logic Education Through Interaction, The Cyprus Journal of Science and Technology, Vol. 5, No. 3, G. Demetriou, A. Lambert. An Extensible Object Oriented Virtual Robotics Development Platform for Use in Robotics Education and Research, IEEE Robotics and Automation, December G. Demetriou, C. Brown. An Algorithm for Geolocation: Marine Buoys in a Fully Immersive Three Dimensional Bathymetric Environment, Journal of Mississippi Academy of Science, Vol. 49, No. 1, January K. P. Valavanis, D. Gracanin, M. Matijasevic, R. Kolluru, G. A. Demetriou, Control Architectures for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, IEEE Control Systems, Vol. 17, No. 6, December

6 Conference Papers 6. G. Demetriou. Sensors for Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs), The 2006 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'06), June 26-29, 2006, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. 7. G. Demetriou, G. Simmons. Visual Transistors: An Intelligent Tutorial for Teaching Transistor Functionality for Digital Logic Students, The 2005 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications, June 23-26, 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. 8. C. Brown, G. Demetriou, L. Perkins. Geolocating Marine Buoys in a Fully Immersive Three Dimensional Bathymetric Environment, The 2004 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods, June 21-24, 2004, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. 9. G. Demetriou, G. Simmons. VisiLogic: An Intelligent Visual Tool for Teaching Digital Logic. The 2004 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications, June 21-24, 2004, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. 10. G. Demetriou, A. Lambert. VROBO: Virtual Robotics Development Platform for Use in Robotics Education and Research, Hawaii International Conference on Computer Sciences, January 15-18, 2004, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. 11. G. Demetriou, G. Simmons. Visual K-Map: An Intelligent Tutorial for Solving Karnaugh Maps, The 2003 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications, June 23-26, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. 12. G. Demetriou, K. P. Valavanis, A State Configured Sensor Based Control Architecture for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, 5 th IEEE Mediterranean Symposium on, New Direction in Control and Automation, Paphos, Cyprus, July D. Gracanin, K. P. Valavanis, G. Demetriou, R. Kolluru, "Development of a Virtual Reality Testbed and AUV Control Architecture for Coastal / Shallow Water Environments", Proceedings of COSU'97 Coastal Ocean Space Utilization, Vol. 2, pp: , Singapore, May G. Demetriou, M. Talley, D. Gracanin, K. P. Valavanis, A Virtual Reality Environment for Real-Time Tele-Robot Control: The AdeptOne/AdeptThree Case Study, 4 th IEEE Mediterranean Symposium on New Direction in Control and Automation, Chania, Crete, Greece, June 10-13,

7 PART III TEACHING INTERESTS Robotic Systems / Automated systems Intelligent Systems Control Systems Artificial Intelligence Computer Architecture Computer Graphics / Visualization / Virtual Reality Electronics Circuits Digital Design Computer Programming TEACHING EXPERIENCE Graduate Courses Mobile Robotics Robotics and Automation Computer Graphics Computer Architecture Computer Networks Undergraduate Courses Control Systems Computer Graphics Digital Design Microprocessors Assembly Language Circuits Data Structures using C/C++ Programming (C++, Java, Visual Basic) Other Chaired master s theses and projects. Directed study courses for graduate and undergraduate students. LIST OF GRADUATE AND GRADUATED STUDENTS Supervised many students for their M.S. thesis or project and B.S. project. Selected student and titles are listed: Graduated M.S. Students 1. Christopher Brown, MS in Computer Science, An Algorithm for Geolocation: Marine Buoys in a Fully Immersive Three Dimensional Bathymetric Environment, Spring Allan Lambert, MS in Computer Science, An Extensible Object Oriented Virtual Robotics Development Platform for use in Robotics Education and Research, Summer Tony Vann, MS in Computer Science, The Harmful Algal Blooms Observing System Weather Tool (HABSOS-WT), Summer

8 4. Michael Davide, MS in Computer Science, Spring Jack Summer, MS in Computer Science, Laboratory Information Management System For the Watson Electric Generating Plant, Summer Mary Steelman, MS in Computer Science, OpenGL and Java, Spring David Rodriguez, MS in Computer Science, Dry-docking Ballast Schedules Program, Summer Honor s Project for Bachelor of Science 1. Rondrell Flowers, BS in Computer Science, Visual K-Map: An Intelligent Tutorial for Solving Karnaugh Maps, Spring

9 PROGRAM REVIEWER / EVALUATOR PART IV Evaluator for the Information Society Technologies (IST) Work Programme in Advanced Robotics, May 29 th June 2 nd, 2006, Brussels, Belgium. Evaluator for the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CHAIR ACTIVITIES Chair, Unmanned Ground Vehicles, The 2007 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'07), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Chair, Sensor Based Navigation and Control of Unmanned Ground Vehicles, The 2006 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'06), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Chair, The 2004 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Chair, 2004 IEEE International Inference in Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2004), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Chair, The 2003 Multi Conference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Chair, The 2001 Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS), Key West, Florida, USA. PROGRAM COMMITTEE The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP 07), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP 06), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The 2002 Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS), Pensacola, Florida, USA. ACADEMIC ENRICHMENT Working with the Ministry of Education of Cyprus, to introduce Robotics as an elective course for high schools. In cooperation with the Association for Gifted Children Cyprus, seminars/workshops for robotics were organized for the Association for Gifted Children Cyprus Organized seminars/workshops for robotics for the local high schools in Lemesos, Cyprus. Restructured the computer science curriculum for the computer science department at the University of Southern Mississippi-Gulf Coast (USM-GC). Helped USM start the computer science Master s program at Stennis Space Center, St. Louis, Mississippi, USA. Facilitated the implementation of the Graphics Laboratory at USM-GC, Long Beach, Mississippi, USA. Developed the Robotics Laboratory at USM-GC, Long Beach, Mississippi, USA. Developed the graduate and undergraduate courses in Robotics at USM-GC, Long Beach, Mississippi, USA. Developed the graduate and undergraduate courses in Computer Graphics, at USM-GC, Long Beach, Mississippi, USA. Founded the local ACM Chapter at USM-GC, Long Beach, Mississippi, USA. Created and Facilitated High School Programming Competitions for the coastal counties of Mississippi, USA. 9

10 PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP Member IEEE Member of ASEE Member of ACM AWARDS Achievement Award: The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP 07) Achievement Award: The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP 06) SILMA Inc. National Award: Simulation of manufacturing cells with realistic constraints using the SILMA CimStation packages. 10

11 PART V REFERENCES Prof. Kimon P. Valavanis Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine Center for Robot-Assisted Search & Rescue Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler Avenue Tampa, FL Phone: or 4100 Fax: kvalavan@csee.usf.edu, k.valavanis@ieee.org Dr. Gene Simmons Department of Computer Science University of South Alabama FCW 20 Mobile, AL Phone: simmons@cis.usouthal.edu Dr. Nash Younis Department of Engineering Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne 2101 Coliseum Boulevard East Fort Wayne, IN Phone: Fax: younis@engr.ipfw.edu Dr. Bongsu Kang Department of Engineering Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne 2101 Coliseum Boulevard East Fort Wayne, IN Phone: Fax: kang@engr.ipfw.edu 11