The NCC’s seminar series invites distinguished speakers to present their work on a diverse range of topics, informing the community of their research and the latest developments in computational methods used for research and innovation.
These take place at the premises of The Cyprus Institute, but can also be viewed online via Zoom. Some of these are also recorded and available for later viewing on YouTube.
Date:Tuesday, 11 February 2025
Speaker: Dr. Mario Acosta, Leading Researcher, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)/Professor, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Date:Tuesday, 18 February 2025
Speaker: Prof. Arnau Folch, Professor, Geosciences Barcelona (GEO3BCN-CSIC)
Date:Tuesday, 04 February 2025
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Caviedes-Voullième, Team leader – Simulation & Data Laboratory Terrestrial Systems (SDLTS), Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) & Institute for Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3)
Date:Tuesday, 28 May 2024
Speaker: Prof. Fragkiskos Papadopoulos, Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Informatics at Cyprus University of Technology.

The Use of Machine Learning in Geophysical Problems
Date: Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Speaker: Prof. Eric Verschuur, Associate Professor, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Towards Engineering Trustworthy Learning-Enabled Systems
Date: Tuesday, 19 March 2024
Speaker: Prof. Simos Gerasimou, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of York, UK

Machine Learning for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Date: Tuesday, 13 February 2024
Speaker: Dr Maria Chli, Reader in Applied Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

Precision Medicine - A Personalized Systems Approach
Date: Tuesday, 6 February 2024
Speaker: Prof. George Mias, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Division Chief, Systems Biology, Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering, Michigan State University

Addressing the Problem of Data Sparsity with Generative Modelling
Date: Friday, 12 January 2024
Speaker: Dr George Vogiatzis, Reader, Computer Science, School of Science

A Tour of Self-Supervised Learning in Computer Vision
Date: Tuesday, 21 November 2023
Speaker: Asst. Prof. Nikos Komodakis, Computer Science Department, University of Crete

Computational Investigation of Underlying Disease Mechanisms and in Silico Drug Repurposing
Date: Tuesday, 14 November 2023
Speaker: Prof. George M. Spyrou, Bioinformatics ERA Chair, Professor & Head, Bioinformatics Department, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology & Genetics (CING), Nicosia, Cyprus

Personalized In Silico Modelling of Disease Progression and Treatment Outcome Prediction
Date: Tuesday, 24 October 2023
Speaker: Prof. Vasileios Vavourakis, University of Cyprus

A Data Science Pipeline for Big Linked Geospatial Data
Date: Tuesday, 17 October 2023
Speaker: Prof. Manolis Koubarakis, Director of Graduate Studies, Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Date: Tuesday 12 September 2023
Speaker: Professor Demetris Zeinalipour, University of Cyprus

Date: Friday 8 September 2023
Speaker: Professor Daniel Cohen-Or, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Date: Tuesday 25 July 2023
Speaker: Professor Andreas Efstathiou, Rector, European University Cyprus

Date: Tuesday 4 July 2023
Speaker: Assistant Professor Dimitris Giataganas, National Sun-yat Sen University, Taiwan

Date: Tuesday 13 June 2023
Speaker: Professor Costas Papanicolas, The Cyprus Institute, CEO CREF

Date: Tuesday 06 June 2023
Speaker: Assistant Professor Elena Mocanu, University of Twente

Date: Tuesday 30 May 2023
Speaker: Professor Decebal Constantin Mocanu, University of Luxembourg


Date: Tuesday 25 April 2023
Speaker: Professor Ribana Roscher, University of Bonn

Date: Tuesday 21 March 2023
Speaker: Dr. Manuel Gomez Rodriguez, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
