Honors, Awards and Scholarships

  • Best Paper Award – SouthCHI 2013: "Towards the Personalization of CAPTCHA Mechanisms based on Individual Differences in Cognitive Processing", Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Human Factors in Computing & Informatics (SouthCHI 2013), Maribor, Slovenia, July 1-3, 2013.
  • PhD Academic Award - EWSN 2012: "KSpot+: A Network-aware Framework for Energy-efficient Data Acquisition in Wireless Sensor Networks", European Wireless Sensor Network Conference, Trento, Italy, 2012
  • Best Student Paper Award – AH 2008: "User-centered Profiling on the basis of Cognitive and Emotional Characteristics: An Empirical Study", Proceedigns of the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems, Hannover, Germany, July 28 – August 1.
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE – ICDE'99: "Mobile Agents for WWW Distributed Database Access", 15th International Data Engineering Conference, Sydney, Australia, March 1999.
  • eHealth Award: The system DITIS (Telemedicine via Mobile Devices) has been ranked among the best 20 e-Health projects (out of 179 EU projects) and has been presented at the e-Health Ministerial conference 2003.
  • World Summit Award (WSA): DITIS was ranked seventh among over eighty products at the World Summit Award (WSA) Competition. October 2003
  • IBM Appreciation Awards in recognition of technical publication of excellence (total of 25), 1992 - 1996
  • IBM Appreciation Award in recognition of APPC Bulletin Board Set-up to Support the Opening of the IBM SNA Network Solution Store, July 92
  • IBM Achievement award for first Patent Application, Nov. 1991
  • R.P.I Research and Teaching Scholarships from 1983 to 1989
  • Honor award for Excellence from Computer Science Department at R.P.I., Spring 1984.
  • Scholarship from Cyprus - American Association for Graduate Studies in Computer Science at R.P.I, 1982.
  • Honor and Scholarship Award for first Rank in the School of Mathematics. Received for the Sophomore, Junior and Senior year, University of Athens, Greece
  • Greek National Foundation Award, 1978 to 1982, Athens, Greece
  • Undergraduate Scholar Fellowship, September 1978 - September 1982, Cyprus Government.