People

WeSIS Lab people

Konstantinos Rantos (Director)

Dr K. Rantos is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the International Hellenic University and Director of the Web Services and Information Security Lab.

Konstantinos Rantos is an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department and Director of the Web Services and Information Security Lab at the International Hellenic University. In the past he held information security positions in the private and public sector. He participated in many national as well as research and development projects under EU ACTS, CIP LSPs, ARTEMIS JU, FP7, and H2020 programmes. He has more than 50 publications in journals, books and international conferences, and acts as a reviewer to a number of conferences and scientific journals. His research interests are in the areas of cybersecurity, cyber-threat management blockchains, authentication systems, and privacy.

Konstantinos Demertzis

Dr K.Demertzis is a military Officer and serves in Research and Informatics Corps of Hellenic Army.

Dr Konstantinos Demertzis is a military Officer and serves in Research and Informatics Corps of Hellenic Army. He holds Phd degree in the Environmental Informatics and Computational Intelligence at the Democritus University of Thrace and Master degree in the Communication & Computer Networking Technologies at the University of the Aegean. He is a Part-time Lecturer at the Computer and Informatics Engineering of the Eastern Macedonia & Thrace Institute of Technology, Research Associate at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Adjunct Faculty at the University of Peloponnese. He holds certifications in advanced computer skills, networking technologies and cyber security by CISCO, Open University UK, University of Georgia USA and University of Applied Sciences Gelsenkirchen. Also, is a Google Certified Partner. His research interests are in the fields of Computational Intelligence, Big Data, Network Security, Malware Analysis and Critical Infrastructure Protection.

Konstantinos Tsiknas

K.Tsiknas is currently employed at the Hellenic Ministry of Defense, where he is involved with the development and implementation of various projects for the Greek army in the fields of computer networks, telecommunication and electricity.

Konstantinos Tsiknas received his Ph.D. in 2015 from Democritus University of Thrace (Greece). His research interests lie in the area of TCP congestion control and performance analysis in computer networks. Konstantinos received his MSc degree in mobile and satellite communications from Surrey University, UK, in 2001. From 1995 to 2009 he worked as a software engineer in telecom industry in Greece and in UK. He is currently employed at the Hellenic Ministry of Defense, where he is involved with the development and implementation of various projects for the Greek army in the fields of computer networks, telecommunication and electricity.

George Ioannou

Dr George Ioannou is a Post-doctoral research fellow at the Computer Science Department, Brunel University, London.

Dr George Ioannou is a Post-doctoral research fellow at the Computer Science Department, Brunel University, London. He was awarded his PhD in Intelligence Fusion for Cyber Situational Awareness from the same department in 2016. His recent work within the Smart Money project, Brunel University London focuses on the feasibility of Distributed Ledger Technology for Central Bank Digital Currencies. George is also involved with the development of Counterfactual-reasoning based explainable-AI agents for Cyber Incident Response within the Human-Like Computing project held at Brunel University London. George has experience as an IT engineer and Information Security Officer and a lab instructor at Brunel University London and the International Hellenic University.

Dimitrios Chatziamanetoglou

Dimitrios Chatziamanetoglou is a Service Delivery Manager (Transmission Services and Network Element Management) in NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) as NATO International Civilian personnel.

Dimitrios Chatziamanetoglou is a Service Delivery Manager (Transmission Services and Network Element Management) in NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) as NATO International Civilian personnel. He is a retired Telecommunications (Signals) Officer (LtCol) having served the Hellenic Army for 25 years, mostly as a network engineer and as Information Security and CIS Security Officer. He received his MSc in Telecommunications Engineering and his second MSc in Informatics and Management from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He holds various certifications in Security (CISSP, CEH), in Risk Management (M_o_R), in Project Management (PRINCE2) and in IT Service Management (ISO/IEC 20000, ITIL). He is also a certified Radio Comms Engineer from the Hellenic Ministry of Digital Governance. He has an extensive experience in Cyber Security and Risk Management activities in both National and International environments. His interests are In the field of Cyber Security, Semantic Web, Blockchain and Radio Communications.