With more than 16 years of professional experience in the IT field, Spyridon Christopoulos holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from The American College of Greece and a Master of Science in Information Technology from the Hellenic American University. He is the Information Technology Manager of the Hellenic American University and the Senior Systems and Network Administrator of the Hellenic American Union. Mr. Christopoulos is a Cisco Certified Instructor Trainer and a Cisco Networking Academy instructor for a variety of courses (CCNA Routing and Switching, CCNA Security, etc.). He holds several Cisco Certifications (CCNA Routing and Switching, CCNA Security, CCNA Cyber Ops, CCNP), and has been awarded by Cisco with the Instructor Excellence recognition (worldwide). As of 2020, Spyridon is an adjunct faculty member and teaches in the BSIT and MSIT programs.
Ilias Gravalos received a Diploma in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras in 2008, as well as his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering in 2011 and 2016, respectively. He has participated in a multitude of EU-funded research projects focusing on computer and system networks (Passive Optical Networks - PON, Internet of Things – IoT) and has contributed to several publications in refereed international journals and conferences. Dr. Gravalos has held faculty positions at the Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece and at the Vocational Training Institute of Patras as Adjunct Assistant Professor. During his career he worked as a software engineer at the Computer Technology Institute and Press "Diophantus", Patras and as a system architect at NOKIA Hellas, Athens. Dr. Gravalos is an adjunct faculty member at Hellenic American University, where he teaches in the MSI program.
Ilias Vongelis holds a B.A. in Economics from AUEB, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Concordia University, Canada. Dr. Vongelis has worked as a lecturer in Economics and is a certified Portfolio Manager from the Hellenic Capital Market Committee a certified Trading Representative of the Athens and Cyprus Stock Exchange and a practicing accountant licensed by the Economic Chamber of Greece. He has held prominent positions in the financial sector for over twenty years, serving as General Manager, Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Executive Officer for Solidus Securities AEPEY, a leading retail non-banking investment firm, Chief Financial Officer in a firm devoted to renewable energy sources, and Credit Analyst in the Corporate Banking Division of the Bank of Cyprus. Dr. Vongelis is an adjunct faculty member at Hellenic American University and teaches in the BSBA program.
Ioannis Filippopoulos is an adjunct Professor in the Information Technology and Engineering Program at Hellenic American University. After receiving his undergraduate degree from the Hellenic Army Academy, he earned an MSc in Information Technologies from the Kapodistrian University of Athens and an MBA from Middlesex University of London. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Computer and Networks Engineering from the University of Thessaly. Before joining Hellenic American University, Dr. Filippopoulos was ICT Manager for the Hellenic Defense High Military Support Services and later Chief Information Officer for a major shipping group. He has served as adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Thessaly and lecturer at the Army’s General Staff’s Institute of Information Technology.
Sokratis Sofianopoulos graduated from the Department of Computer Science of the University of Ioannina in 2002, and holds a MSc in Distributed & Multimedia Information Systems from the Dept. of Computer Science of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (2003). He received his PhD degree from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2010, on research he conducted on Language Modeling for Machine Translation Systems and multi-objective optimization using evolutionary algorithms. Since 2005 he has served as research associate and software engineer at The Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP / "Athena" R.C.). His research interests include machine translation, machine learning with emphasis on evolutionary computation approaches, data modeling etc. He has worked in several European R&D programs in the field of NLP and machine translation (METIS-II (FP6-IST-003768), PRESEMT (FP7-ICT-248307), QTLaunchPad (FP7-ICT-296347)). He is an adjunct faculty member and teaches in the IT program.