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Ioannis Pitas
Ioannis Pitas Professor and Senior Researcher at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) and the Information Technologies Institute (ITI) of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) Ioannis Pitas is a Senior Researcher at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) and the Information Technologies Institute (ITI) of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH). He served as a Professor of Computer Science at AUTh from 1994 to 2025 and as the Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis (AIIA) Lab. He holds a Diploma and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from AUTh and bears the prestigious titles of IEEE Fellow, EURASIP Fellow, and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. According to Research.com (2022), he is ranked 1st in Greece and 319th globally in Computer Science, with an h-index of 94 and over 39,400 citations. His research focuses on Artificial Intelligence, autonomous systems, computer vision, and machine learning. He has published over 980 papers and 48 book chapters and has authored or edited 16 books. His international standing is marked by 171 invited talks, service as a visiting professor at 12 universities, and participation in the committees of 291 conferences. He plays a leading role in the scientific community as the Chair of the International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA) and the Coordinator of the Horizon Europe project TEMA. He was the founder and Chair of the IEEE Autonomous Systems Initiative and has served as the Principal Investigator (PI) for 47 of the 75+ research projects in which he has participated. In 2009, he was honored with the AUTh Research Award for having the highest number of citations.

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