Venue

New Engineering Building (ΠΟΛ010) University of Cyprus

Elias Kyriakides Amphitheatre (B102)
Andreas Alexandrou Amphitheatre (B101)

Day 1

10:00 - 10:45 Introductions

Introductory remarks by

Prof. Stavros Malas, President of the Cyprus Institute,

&

Prof. Marina Neophytou, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Cyprus 

Prof. Stavros Kassinos – UCY

Lowering the Barrier: Teaching and Doing HPC+AI in a Fast-Moving Hardware–Software Stack

Prof. Constantine Dovrolis – CYI

Important milestones in the convergence of computational science and ML/AI over the last 10-15 years

10:45 - 11:45 - Keynote 1

Dr. Boris Bonev – NVIDIA

Next Generation Weather Forecasting with Geometric Neural Operators

11:45 - 12:45 - Session 1

Prof. Vasileios Vavourakis- UCY

Multiscale in silico models in cancer – from predictive modelling to surgical planning

Dr. Gregory Papagregoriou – BioBank

Digitalizing the Natural History of Rare Diseases: Longitudinal Machine Learning and Sub-Tissue Digital Twins for Precision Medicine applied in ADTKD-MUC1

Dr. Anna Onisiforou – UCY

Comparative Network Pharmacology Modeling for Prioritizing Approved Therapies Across Comorbid Diseases

12:45 - 14:00 - Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 - Session 2

Dr. George Spyrou – CING

A One Health Approach: Leveraging Systems Bioinformatics to Decode the Effects of Exposome Stressors on Human Health

Dr. Charalambos Chrysostomou – Eratosthenes COE

Scalable Earth Observation: Bridging Physical Constraints with Data-Driven Algorithms

Dr. Xenia Miscouridou – UCY

Statistical modelling of networks with dynamic overlapping communities

15:00 - 16:00 - Session 3

Prof. Dimokratis Grigoriades – UCY

Accelerating Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) with AI/ML: Challenges

Prof. Herodotos Herodotou – CUT

Data-Driven Insights into Coastal Dynamics: Leveraging Neural Networks for Eutrophication Assessment

Prof. George Pallis – UCY

GLASSLab: Simulating Sustainability and Scalability of Geo-Distributed LLMs in Data Centers

16:00-16:45 - Coffee break

16:45 -17:25 - Session 4

Dr. Georgios Zittis – CYI

Downscaling of climate models: an overview of physics-based and data-driven methods

Prof. Marios Zacharias  – CYI

Ab Initio HPC Approaches to Electron-Phonon Coupling and Anharmonicity

17:30 - 18:30 - Keynote 2

Dr. Awni Hannun – MLX/Apple Silicon

AI on Apple Silicon with MLX

Day 2

9:00 - 10:00 - Session 5

Prof. Panagiotis Kolios – UCY

Leveraging AI for pandemic preparedness and response

Prof. Loizos Michael – OUC

Unraveling the Induction-Instruction Entanglement

Dr. Myrianthi Hadjicharalambous – CYI

EuroCC and Pharos‑CY projects: Promoting the adoption of HPC and AI in Cyprus

10:00 - 11:00 - Session 6

Prof. Haris Papadopoulos – Frederick University

How to Make Your Models Honest: Distribution-Free Coverage Guarantees for Scientific Computing

Prof. Dimitris Drikakis – UNIC

AI methods and associated uncertainty and explainability in flows, the environment and medicine

Prof. Sotirios Chatzis – UCY

Beyond Determinism: Variational Inference for Physics-Informed Probabilistic Modeling

11:00-11:30 - Coffee Break

11:30-12:00 - Invited Talk

Dr. Alex Cheema – EXO Labs Platform

Title TBA

12:00-13:00 - Session 7

Prof. Vangelis Harmandaris – CYI

Physics-based & Data-driven Modeling of Complex Molecular Systems: A Journey Across Scales & Methods

Dr. Charalampos Konstantinou – UCY

Using Machine Learning to Inform Numerical and Experimental Studies of Fluid Flow in Porous Media

Dr. Mohammad Hadi Sedaghat – UCY

A Hybrid Immersed Boundary–Projection Framework for Multiphysics Simulation of Drug Transport in Airway Surface Liquid

13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 - Open Discussion

How can the computational science and ML/AI research and education communities in Cyprus work more closely together?

15:00 - 16:00 - Keynote 3

Prof. Paris Perdikaris – University of Pennsylvania

Physics-Informed Neural Networks: From Over-hyped Promise to Turbulent Reality

16:00 - 16:40 - Session 8

Prof. Giannis Koutsou – CYI

Revealing the structure of matter using large scale simulations of the strong force

Dr. Savvas Karatsiolis – CYENS

Decomposing Urban Heat Islands: A Hybrid Physics-Inspired and Data-Driven Modeling Framework

16:40-17:00 - Coffee Break / Wrap up