Dr. Christos Chrysoulas, is an Associate Profesor in Software Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. He received his Diploma and his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the University of Patras in 2003 and 2009 respectively. His research interests include Smart Grids, IoT, Industrial Automation, Machine Learning and Big Data. The outcome of this effort was properly announced in more than 60 technical papers in these areas. Dr. Christos Chrysoulas also participated as Senior Researcher/Engineer in both European and National Research Projects.

INTERNATIONAL DISTINCTIONS

To disseminate research findings, Christos have published over 60 peer-reviewed papers. Apart from the above dissemination activities Christos have given several invited talks at other UK universities, international venues, and industry as follow:

- Chrysoulas, C., (2024). “SWAMs: A Smart Water Management System.” ICISS 2024, The 7th International Conference on Information Science and Systems. August 2024
- Chrysoulas, C., (2022). “GLASS: Towards a de centralized E Governance Model.” ICISS 2022, The 5th International Conference on Information Science and Systems. August 2022
- Chrysoulas, C., (2022). “Predictive maintenance approaches and how can potentially be used for the SOH for batteries and more” as part of the GXUST – ENU Research Collaboration Action. March 2022
- Chrysoulas, C., (2019). “Machine Learning in Communication Networks.” University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Chrysoulas, C., (2018). “IEC 61499 and what it is good for.” International Conference on Industrial Internet of Things and Smart Manufacturing IoTSM 2018, 5-6 September 2018, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Christos received the Best Paper Award from the prestigious IFIPSEC 2024 conference for his work on explainable AI in Cybesecurity.

Christos received the "Leading Light Innovation" 2022 award at the Scottish Cybersecurity Awards as the CO-PI for the GLASS EU Project.

Also received the Best presentation award for the ICISS 2021 conference.

RESEARCH LEADERSHIP

Christos has also contributed to the organisation of major scientific events. Christos actively participating in organising high impact conferences. During his Ph.D., he had the opportunity to serve as session chair for a plethora of Conferences like IWAN, CSNDSP, WEBIST. As a Postdoctoral researcher (2013-2014), Christos worked for the Centre of Real Time and Embedded Computing Systems (Portugal) in the "ARROWHEAD: Enable collaborative automation by networked embedded devices" Artemis European project in the area of Smart Grids and Energy harvesting and transporting, worth 60 million pounds. There he had the opportunity to work closely with pioneering academics and scientists, like Prof. Jerker Delsing and Prof. Valeriy Vyatkin. Also, as a Postdoctoral researcher (2014-2015), Christos worked on the "HIPA: High Integrity Process Automation”, COMPETE European Program, with world known Academics like Prof. Alois Zoitl, Prof. Mario de Sousa and Prof. Luis Almeida. From July 2015 till August 2017, Christos was working as a Postdoctoral researched in the University of Essex with Prof. Maria Fasli (holder of the prestigious UNESCO Chair in Analytics and Data Science) in the area of Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence.
Christos served as the Local Arrangements Co-chair for the 4th and 7th ACM International Conference on Information Science and Systems, that took place in Edinburgh. Christos have also been serving as an organizing and program committee member of major international conferences (INFOCOM, SIGCOM, ICC, RTCSA, ETFA, INDIN, WFCS, etc.)

SELECTED CURRENT PROJECTS:

* GLASS: SinGLe Sign-on eGovernAnce paradigm based on a distributed file exchange network for Security, transparency, cost effectiveness and truSt (EU, 2021 – 2024), co-PI
* PROFEEDBACK COST Action-funded project (EU, 2021 - 2025), PI

PAST PROJECTS:

* SWAM: Smart WAter Management System, (Internal fund, 2021), PI
* CATALYST: Improving community services for vulnerable people, (Higher Education Funding Council for England , 2015 - 2019), Researcher
* ARROWHEAD: Enable collaborative automation by networked embedded devices. Artemis European Project (2013-2016), Researcher