Home page of Vassilis Kostakos

Vassilis is more or less a nice guy. He holds a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Madeira, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Previously he was a Research Associate at the University of Bath. He designs Pervasive Systems, and he conducts research on ubiquitous and pervasive computing, usable security and trust, social and dynamic networks. Despite his ups and downs, he still plays basketball. He now lives on a tiny island in the Atlantic. Last but not least, he is a Maniot. [Research bio] [CV]

News

• 15 Sep 2010: Invited lecture at 2010 IEEE ANDESCON in Bogota, Colombia.
• 13 Sep 2010: Keynote at I2COMM (with IEEE Latincom) in Bogota, Colombia.
• 1 Jul 2010: Scientific American talks about our work on crowd behaviour and manipulation.
• 10 Jun 2010: Spending summer with my team in Oulu for fieldwork.
• 31 May - 4 June 2010: Teaching Urban Social Network analysis at the 1st UBI Summer School.
• 4 May 2010: Became a mentor of the New Scholars Research Grant recipients in Thailand.
• 1 May 2010: Received an IBM Faculty Award.
• 30 Mar 2010: Became a Fellow of the Finland Distinguished Professor programme.
• 15 Feb 2010: Chairing demos at TEI 2011. Make sure to submit!
• 10 Feb 2010: Chairing workshops at Ubicomp 2010. Make sure to submit!