About

PhD Candidate: Mr. Philip Fayad
Philip Fayad is currently a PhD researcher at the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics of the Cyprus University of Technology. He holds a bachelor’s degree in surveying engineering and an MSc in Geoinformatics, both with honors from Cyprus University of Technology. His main research interests focus in geoinformatics, geostatistics, spatial analysis, remote sensing, human mobility and GIS.

Advisory Committee

Prof. Phaedon Kyriakidis – Dept. of Civil Eng. & Geomatics, Cyprus University of Technology
Phaedon Kyriakidis is a professor of Geoinformatics at the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics of the Cyprus University of Technology. Dr. Kyriakidis obtained his BSc (1994) from the Department of Geology of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, his PhD (1999) from the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences of Stanford University, USA, with specialization Geostatistics in the Earth Sciences. He also worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow (1999-2000) at the Hydro-Climate Research Group of the Earth Sciences Division of Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, where he also held a Faculty Staff appointment (2001-13). Dr. Kyriakidis’s research interests include geostatistics, geocomputation, and geoinformatics, as well as their applications to geographic information science and systems, remote sensing, earth, atmospheric and environmental sciences, public health, and archaeology.

Associate Prof. Dimitris Kavroudakis – Dept. of Geography, University of the Aegean
Dimitris Kavroudakis is an associate professor of Geographical Analysis at the Geography Department of the University of the Aegean. He has studied computer info systems in the American College of Greece (DEERE), Geography in The University of the Aegean and he obtained his MSc in GIS from the University of Leeds, UK. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Sheffield, UK and has worked as post-doc researcher in UCL (CASA), University of Sheffield and University of the Aegean. Dr. Kavroudakis has been involved in research concerning web-GIS, visualization, spatial statistics, EU population inequalities, spatial economics and open-source GIS development. He is an experienced programmer and a Linux/open-source supporter utilizing open hardware such as Raspbery-PI and Android OS. His research interests include spatial analysis, graph theory – spatial network analysis, spatial optimization, agent-based modelling, spatial data mining and geostatistics.

Assistant Prof. Constantinos Tsioutis – School of Medicine, European University Cyprus
Constantinos Tsioutis is an assistant professor of Internal Medicine at the School of Medicine of the European University Cyprus, Chair of the Clinical Training Committee and Coordinator of the MSc “Infectious Diseases: Prevention and Control”. Additionally, he is the head of the Cyprus National Scientific Advisory Committee for the COVID19. Dr. Tsioutis graduated from the Medical School of the University of Crete, where he also acquired his PhD and specialized in Internal Medicine. He was also trained in infection prevention and control, applied epidemiology and antimicrobial stewardship at the University Hospital of Crete, the Rollins School of Public Health (Atlanta, GA, USA) and the University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands. His research and clinical interests focus on diagnosis and management of infections, management of complex patients, medical investigations and diagnosis and post-COVID19 management.

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