Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας- Διαδικτυακό φόρουμ
Το Τμήμα Ηλεκτρολόγων Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών του Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλίας διοργανώνει διαδικτυακό φόρουμ για την έναρξη της συνεργασίας του με το Αυστραλιανό ερευνητικό κέντρο SmartSat CRC , η οποία θα διεξαχθεί την Τετάρτη 15 Δεκεμβρίου 2021 και ώρα 11.00-13.00, στα Αγγλικά στο σύνδεσμο:
Διοργανωτές
Ασπασία Δασκαλοπούλου (aspassia@uth.gr) και Στηβ Μπακάλης (steve.bakalis@gmail.com)
To
φόρουμ απευθύνεται σε
μέλη ΔΕΠ, ερευνητές, μεταδιδακτορικούς ερευνητές, υποψήφιους διδάκτορες,
μεταπτυχιακούς φοιτητές και τελειόφοιτους προπτυχιακούς φοιτητές, όχι μόνο του
Τμήματος και όχι μόνο του Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλίας, αλλά και στην ευρύτερη
επιχειρηματική κοινότητα, με σκοπό την ενημέρωση σχετικά με τις δυνατότητες για
συνέργειες με το SmartSat CRC.
Το
Τμήμα Ηλεκτρολόγων Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών (ΗΜΜΥ)
του Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλίας , ξεκινά συνεργασία με το ερευνητικό κέντρο SmartSat CRC
στην Αυστραλία. Το SmartSat CRC, αριθμώντας περίπου 130 εταίρους, είναι η
μεγαλύτερη στην ιστορία της Αυστραλίας κοινοπραξία μεταξύ πανεπιστημίων,
ερευνητικών κέντρων και βιομηχανίας. Η κύρια αποστολή του είναι η έρευνα και η
ανάπτυξη τεχνολογίας για το διάστημα, αλλά τα ερευνητικά πεδία είναι, ως
γνωστόν, συγκοινωνούντα δοχεία: πολλές εξειδικευμένες περιοχές έρευνας
υποστηρίζουν την κεντρική δραστηριότητα του SmartSat CRC, και ταυτόχρονα πολλά
παράγωγα αυτής της έρευνας μπορούν να αξιοποιηθούν σε πλείστες άλλες περιοχές
εφαρμογών.
Στοχευμένη
ερευνητική δραστηριότητα του SmartSat CRC που περιλαμβάνει, μεταξύ άλλων, τις
προηγμένες τηλεπικοινωνίες και τα δίκτυα υπολογιστών, τα προηγμένα δορυφορικά
συστήματα, τα δίκτυα αισθητήρων, την τεχνητή νοημοσύνη, τη συλλογή και
αξιοποίηση μεγάλου όγκου δεδομένων παρατήρησης της γης από το διάστημα, θα
συνδεθεί με το επιστημονικό δυναμικό και την ερευνητική δραστηριότητα του
Τμήματος ΗΜΜΥ σε αντίστοιχες και συμπληρωματικές περιοχές, ώστε να ενισχυθεί η δημιουργία κρίσιμης μάζας
γνώσης και τεχνολογίας και να παραχθούν εφαρμογές, τόσο ενδιαφέρουσες όσο και
χρήσιμες για την εθνική, περιφερειακή αλλά και τοπική οικονομία.
Μια
πρώτη παρουσίαση του σκεπτικού για αυτή τη συνεργασία έχει δημοσιευθεί πρόσφατα
σε άρθρο των διοργανωτών στην εφημερίδα
Καθημερινή (22-11-2021).
Announcement – Invitation
The Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of the University of Thessaly is organizing a web forum to mark the
commencement of its collaboration with the Australian Collaborative Research
Centre SmartSat CRC. The forum will be conducted in English on the 15th December 2021 during the period 11.00-13.00 (ATH), at the
following MS-TEAMS link:
Organizers
Aspassia Daskalopulu (aspassia@uth.gr ) and Steve Bakalis (steve.bakalis@gmail.com)
The forum is intended for Academics,
researchers, postdoctoral researchers, doctoral researchers, postgraduate
students and final year undergraduate students, not only from the ECE
Department, and not only from the University of Thessaly, and also for the
broader entrepreneurial community, and its purpose is to inform interested
parties about the prospects for synergies with SmartSat CRC.
The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of
Thessaly is commencing collaboration with the Australian Collaborative Research
Centre SmartSat CRC, which brings together approximately 130 partners and is
the biggest collaborative effort between Universities, Research Centres and
Industry in Australian history. Though research and development in space technology
is the main mission of SmartSat CRC, since research areas are typically communicating
vessels, many specialist areas support its core activities and, conversely,
many derivatives of space research and technology may be deployed in numerous
other application areas.
Targeted research activity at SmartSat CRC that includes, among others, advanced
telecommunications and networks, advanced satellite systems, sensors, artificial
intelligence, the collection and mining of big data from earth observations from
space, can be associated with research activities and personnel in the ECE
Department, in respective and complementary areas, so as to promote the
creation of critical mass in terms of knowledge and technology and produce
applications that are both interesting and useful for the national, the
regional and the local economy.
The rationale for such collaboration
has been sketched in an article by the organizers, which was published recently in the daily national
newspaper Kathimerini (22-11-2021).
Πρόγραμμα ( Program)
11.00 |
Vision of an
Australian Space Cooperative Research Centre Prof Andy Koronios, CEO & Managing Director
SmartSat CRC and Emeritus Professor University of South Australia |
11.10 |
Promoting Research
Excellence and Innovation Prof Allison Kealy, Research Capability Coordinator
SmartSat CRC and Professor of Geospatial Science, RMIT |
11.20 |
Research Program:
Themes, Roadmap and Demonstrators Dr Carl Seubert, Chief Research Officer SmartSat
CRC |
11.30 |
Collaborative
R&D Enabling Industry Growth for Space and Spatial Sectors Mr Peter Kerr, Indo-Pacific Capability Demonstrator Leader
SmartSat CRC |
11.40 |
Questions / Comments Interval |
12.00 |
Defect Engineering
Strategies for Radiation Resistance CCDs for Space Prof Alexandros Chroneos, Professor of Computational
Modelling and Systems Simulation ECE |
12.10 |
Advanced Techniques
for Management of Big Geospatial Data Pro. Michael
Vassilakopoulos,
Professor or Spatial Databases ECE |
12.20 |
EDA Tools and
Methodologies Prof George
Stamoulis,
Professor of Digital VLSI Circuit Design ECE and Dean of Engineering
University of Thessaly |
12.30 |
Questions / Comments / Discussion |
Invited
participants include enterprise guests from Australia and Greece, who may
contribute with short (3-5 minute) interventions. Confirmed enterprise guest
list (to be updated):
- Dr Nicholas Begakis AO FAICD, Chairman Renew Adelaide
Short Bios of Invited
Speakers
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Professor Andy Koronios is the CEO and
Managing Director of the SmartSat CRC. Previously, Andy held the positions of
Dean: Industry & Enterprise and Head of the School of Information
Technology & Mathematical Sciences, at the He has extensive
experience in both commercial and academic environments and his research
areas include data quality, information management & governance, data
analytics and the strategic exploitation of information. Andy has led
the establishment of several research concentrations, labs & research
centres. He served as the Research Program Leader for System
Integration & Interoperability in the CIEAM CRC. He is
internationally known for his work in data quality, has been an adjudicator
for the European Corporate Data Quality Awards for several years and is the
Editor-In-Chief of the International Journal of Information Quality. He
has worked both as a consultant as well as a professional speaker on IT
issues in |
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Prof Allison Kealy is
Professor in Geospatial Science in the School of Science at RMIT University.
Allison is also the Research Capability Coordinator of the SmartSat
Cooperative Research Centre, an initiative comprising industry, research
institutions and government, and one of the most significant space industry
research concentrations in Australia. Allison is a Deputy Director of the Sir
Lawrence Wackett Centre, RMIT University’s defence research centre. She
is currently president of the International Association of Geodesy,
Commission 4 (Positioning and Applications) and co-chair of the International
Federation of Surveying (FIG) Working Group 5.5 on Multi-Sensor Systems. She
is a Fellow of both
the International Association of Geodesy, and the Royal Institute of
Navigation. She is a technical representative to the Satellite Division of
the US, Institute of Navigation. Allison holds a PhD in
Satellite Positioning and Geodesy from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne,
UK and a BSc in Land Surveying from the University of the West Indies,
Trinidad. Allison’s research interests cuts across a number of key industry sectors
including defence, emergency and disaster management, Space and near space
sensors and engineering, intelligent transport and autonomous
platforms. |
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Dr Carl Seubert joined SmartSat in May 2021, after
nine years at NASA JPL as Senior Aerospace Engineer. After graduating with a
First Class Honours in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Sydney,
Carl completed a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the
Missouri University of Science and Technology (USA) and a PhD in Aerospace
Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder (USA). As Nasa
JPL’s Manager – Formation Control Testbed and Guidance and Control Engineer,
Carl led research and technology development for spacecraft formation flight,
future Earth observation missions and precise planetary landing. This
includes designing the spacecraft pointing control algorithms and software
for the upcoming Europa Clipper mission and the next Mars lander mission. |
In his 30 years in Defence, Peter Kerr has carried out research on Jindalee/JORN, High
Frequency (HF) Communications, Communications Electronic Warfare, Signals
Intelligence and Satellite Communications, always focusing on radio frequency
technology and systems. Peter has been seconded to academia (UniSA),
diplomatic posting (Counsellor Defence Science, London) and Strategic Policy
and Intelligence Group (Defence Industry Division). He led the Satellite
Communications Discipline at DSTO until 2010 supporting the Australian
Defence Force through a research program in satellite IP networking,
satellite resource management, satellite vulnerability and mobile satellite
communications. He was DST’s Program Leader for Innovation during the initial
implementation of the Next Generation Technologies Fund. During this time he
worked across Defence and Government and provided key contributions to the
establishment of elements of the 2016 Defence Industry Policy Statement
including the Defence Innovation Hub, the Defence CRC program and the
USA-Australia Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (AUSMURI). In
July 2018, Peter moved to the role of Scientific Advisor to Chief of Joint
Operations Command, the principal scientific advisor to Headquarters JOC.
This position helps focus Defence S&T contributions to the planning and
execution of Defence Operations. |
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Prof Alex Chroneos is Professor in computational modelling at the University of Thessaly
and an Honorary Reader at Imperial College London. He previously worked as a Professor at
Coventry University, Lecturer in Energy at The Open University and as an
Intra-European Marie Curie Fellow at NCSR Demokritos. As a Research Associate he worked on energy
materials in Germany (University of Münster), the UK (Imperial College London and
Cambridge University) and at MIT (visiting researcher). He gained a PhD from
Imperial College London, an MSc in Theoretical Chemistry from Oxford
University, and a BSc in Materials Physics at Imperial College London. He is
presently working on numerous electronic and energy systems with applications
that include sensors and batteries. He is the author of more than 350 refereed
papers (with over 9300 cites; H-index 62), 3 book chapters, 100 conference
presentations and 19 invited or keynote presentations. |
Prof Michael Vassilakopoulos obtained a five-year Diploma in Computer Eng. and Informatics from
the University of Patras (Greece) in 1990 and a PhD in Computer Science from
the Department of Electrical and Computer Eng. of the Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki (Greece) in 1995. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of
Database Systems at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of
the University of Thessaly (Greece) and has been recently promoted to
Professor (pending appointment). He has taught for more than 25 years in
several higher institutes. Moreover, he has held several administrative
positions, including head of department, director of MSc studies and director
of research lab. He has published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed scientific
journals and conferences and several chapters in books and collections and
lemmas in encyclopedias and has co-edited a book on Spatial Databases. He has
been a member of the program committee / organizer of special tracks of
several conferences and program committee co-chair of the 25th Pan-Hellenic
Conference on Informatics (PCI 2021). He has also participated in / coordinated
several R&D projects related to Databases, GIS, WWW, Information Systems
and Employment. His research interests include Algorithms, Data Structures,
Databases, Data Mining, Recommender Systems, GIS, Parallel and Distributed
Computing and Big Data Management. |
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Prof George Stamoulis got
his Diploma from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the
National Technical University of Athens in 1989, and an M.S. and PhD from the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After one year as a Visiting Assistant
Professor at the University of Iowa, he joined Intel Corp. working on CAD
tools for power analysis and optimization as a senior CAD Engineer
(1995-1996), as lead of the PowerCAD group (1996-1998), as Manager of the
Santa Clara Annex of the Strategic CAD Laboratories (1998-1999) and as power
manager of the Pentium M project, which became the Centrino platform
(1999-2001). In 2001 joined the Department of Electronic and Computer
Engineering at the Technical University of Crete as Assistant Professor and
in 2003 he became Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and
Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Thessaly, where he became
Professor in 2009. From 2003 to 2007 served as Associate Head and from 2007
to 2011 as Head of the Department. From 2013 to 2018 he was the Head of the
newly formed Computer Science Department. Since 2018 he is the Dean of the
School of Engineering at the University of Thessaly. His research interests
focus on the analysis and optimization of average and maximum power of
integrated circuits, the analysis and optimization of the maximum voltage
drop on the power supply lines of integrated circuits, low power design,
reliability analysis and optimization, and the application of massively
parallel and deep-learning techniques to the aforementioned problems. He has
authored more than 200 papers in journals and major conferences, claims three
US patents and has more than 1500 references to his work. He has also founded
two startups in the high-tech area. He is a member of the IEEE and the
Technical Chamber of Greece and participates in the program and technical
committees of several international conferences. |
Short Bios of Enterprise Guests
Dr Nicholas Begakis has been involved in Australia’s
community and business landscape for four decades. His past involvements
include almost 20 years as Chair of the Women’s and Children’s Hospital
Foundation, inaugural Chair of The Australian Centre for Plant Functional
Genomics and past Chair of the Adelaide Central Market Authority. He is a
former Director of Business SA, past Chair of Statewide Super and a member of
the Environment Protection Authority (SA). Nicholas has an engineering degree
and has significant commercial experience across several sectors including
manufacturing, venture capital and merchant banking including M&A and
corporate recovery, academia, financial services and as a professional
company director. |
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Short
Bios of Organizers
Prof Aspassia Daskalopulu obtained her PhD in Computer Science at Imperial College of Science, Technology
and Medicine, University of London. She held academic positions in the UK at Brunel
University, the Open University and King’s College London, and was engaged in
collaborative research with Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories and the
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, before joining the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering at the University of Thessaly as Assistant Professor.
Her research interests lie in the area of dynamic normative systems,
multiagent systems and smart energy. |
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Prof Steve Bakalis is SmartSat CRC Ambassador to Greece. Steve completed his doctoral
studies at La Trobe University in the area of computable general equilibrium
modelling. His professional and research background includes the role of
international business and diaspora entrepreneurship/networks. He has also engaged
with the development and management of transnational education ventures and
projects, especially in the Asia Pacific region in Malaysia, China, and
Thailand. He worked for the Ministry of Higher Education in Oman and led the
establishment of a School of International Business, including the development
of international linkages and partnerships. He has held adjunct appointments
with the Australian National University, University of Adelaide, and is
currently an honorary professor at The Central University of Finance and
Economics (Beijing-China). |
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