Dr. Konstantinos Votis is a computer engineer and a senior researcher (Researcher Grade Β’) at Information Technologies Institute/Centre for Research and Technologies Hellas (CERTH/ITI) and Director of the Visual Analytics Laboratory of CERTH/ITI.

He is also a Visting professor at the De-montfort University in UK in the filed of Human Computer Interaction, Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR). He received an MSc and a Ph.D. degree in computer science and service oriented architectures from Computer Engineering and Informatics department, University of Patras, Greece. Also he holds an MBA from the Business School department in the University of Patras.

His research interests include Human Computer Interaction (HCI), information Visualisation and management of big data, knowledge engineering and decision support systems, Internet of Things, cybersecurity as well as pervasive computing, with major application areas such as mHealth, eHealth, and personalized healthcare. His PhD was in the domain of service Oriented Architecture and Information management systems in the einclusion and healthcare. Since 2001 he has published more than 100 international scientific articles on eHealth, mhealth, human-technology interaction visualisation (AR, VR, information visualisation with visual analytics), mobile and ambient technologies as well as human-centred design, etc.

Since 2001, Dr. Votis has participated in 29 Research and Development projects in the fields of HCI, IoT, information Visualisation and data analytics, personal health systems, cybersecurity, blockchain, Ambient Assisted Living, e-Inclusion and big data: of which 24 are funded by the EC (6 H2020, 11 FP7 ICT, 1 FP6 IST STREP, 4 FP5 IST, 2 structural/cross border), 2 are funded by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology, 2 are cross border, and 1 is subcontract from the industry), acting both as Scientific Responsible and as the Technical Coordinator of the whole European consortium (technical coordinator of the project in 3 projects – 1 FP7 ICT, 1 H2020, and 1 Greek National project).

Dr. Votis has strong expertise in managing EU and national projects especially in the ara of IoT, cybersecutiy, mHealth, as he was the technical coordinator of FP7 NoTremor, CaregiversPROMMD H2020, deputy coordinator myAirCoach H2020 (mHealth and self management), Greek pilot Leader and WP leader in Large scale IoT project ACTIVAGE in the Active and Healthy Ageing.