Stefanos’ role

Stefanos has collaborated with the Centre of Culture and Creativity of the University of Lincoln since the end of 2016, in an interdisciplinary framework, providing the (computer science) expertise on intelligent & semantic aggregation, access and creative reuse of cultural content and metadata. He contributed as Program Co-Chair in the organisation of the Heritage Dot Conference in 2019 and in its selection as a European Year Cultural Heritage Event in 2018. He has also been Co-I in the set-up, the preparation and submission, and currently the implementation of the Creative Europe We Hope Project (2019-2022). He will be assisting C4CC based on his research and expertise in developing new challenging activities, especially based on the interweaving of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies with creative frameworks.

A bit of background

Stefanos has large expertise with relevant R&D contributions, in the fields of machine learning and (deep) neural networks, artificial intelligence, multimodal signal and data analysis, semantic cultural content analysis and metadata interoperability, emotion recognition and human computer interaction.

He is IEEE Fellow (since 2015, suggested by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society). He has been a member of the Executive Committee of European Neural Network Society, 2007-2016. Since 2019, he has been a member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on Cultural Heritage.

In the past, he has been a member of the EC (Creativity sector) Member State Expert Group for Content Digitization & Digital Preservation (MSEG 2007-2016, formerly in NRG 2004-2007) and a member of the High Level Representative Group of the EUREKA Programme (2012-16). He has also been a member of the Advisory Boards of European Commission for Learning Technologies, Multimodal Interfaces, Knowledge Technologies, Cultural Content Interoperability.

Since 2005 he has contributed to the research and technological developments of digital libraries, cultural content re-use and creativity technologies and the development of Europeana, the European Digital Library. In this framework they developed the MINT tool for metadata interoperability that has been used by Europeana and 25 European projects and was selected as one of six beta sprints (out of 38) and awarded by Digital Public Library of America in 2011. More than a fourth of the 60 million Europeana’s aggregated cultural objects have been aggregated through Mint.

He has published 110 papers in international journals and 300 papers in proceedings of international conferences. His research has attracted about 10,000 Citations, with an h-Index 46 (Google Scholar). He has supervised 42 Ph.D. students, 12 of whom are academic professors in Europe and USA. They have obtained many best conference paper awards. He has been General Chair of 6 International Conferences since 2000. He has been Key Note Speaker in many Conferences. He has been PI in 100 European research projects, with funding of more than 20MEuro. One fourth of them refers to Cultural Content Aggregation, Intelligent Analysis, Enrichment, Semantic Interoperability, and Cultural Content Creative Reuse.

And finally…

 ‘Presentation, at US National Archives, of the MINT (Metadata Interoperability) system, awarded by the Digital Public Library of America (Washington DC, 2011)’