Biography
Dr. Anastasios Karakostas received the Degree in Computer Science and the PhD degree in Computer Science Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece. He is a Researcher with ITI-CERTH. He has participated in numerous European and national research projects, as technical manager or WP leader, and is the author of more than 60 publications in refereed journals and international conferences. Currently, among other projects, he is deputy coordinator of the H2020 DRS project aqua3S (which supports safety and security in existing water networks), project risk and mitigation manager of the H2020 DRS project INGENIOUS, project innovation manager of the SC H2020 project SAFERS. Moreover, he was the deputy coordinator of the DRS H2020 beAWARE project, which was considered and evaluated as a success story from the EU. His research interests include decision support systems for disaster management, multimedia analysis, ontologies and semantic information modelling and reasoning. He has served as a reviewer in international Journals such as Computers and Education, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies and as Technical program committee in well reputed conferences and workshops such as CSCL, IEEE ICALT. He is a member of the EU Community of Users for Secure, Safe and Resilient Societies and the chair of the International Workshop on Intelligent Crisis Management Technologies for Climate Events (ICMT) in ISCRAM 2018, 2019 and 2021