Dr. Christos Rodosthenous holds a Ph.D. in Information and Communication Systems, with specialization in Computational Cognition / Artificial Intelligence, from the Open University of Cyprus (OUC). He also holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics with a major in Computational Mathematics and Informatics and an M.Sc. in Computational Mathematics and Informatics in Education with a major in Information Technologies and Communications in Education, both from University of Patras, Greece. His research contributes to key areas of Artificial Intelligence, Commonsense Knowledge Acquisition and reasoning,  Natural Language Understanding, Story Understanding, Crowdsourcing, eLearning, gamification, and distance education.

Currently, he works at the eLearning and Digital Content Management Sector at the Open University of Cyprus and teaches at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering and Informatics at the Cyprus University of Technology. He previously worked at the Information Systems and Technology Services of the Cyprus University of Technology and the Computer Technology Institute and Press “Diophantus”. He is involved in numerous National and European projects involving Language Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, Gamification, Web Technologies, eLearning technologies, Digital repositories, Open Access and Open Data initiatives.

He is an advocate of Free and Open source software and actively participates in many actions for promoting its usage in the public sector.

[News and Updates]

1. [30/11/2024] The 8th National Competition SkillsCyprus 2024 on Web Development is completed. Congratulations to all winners and to the excellent team of experts I had the opportunity to coordinate.
2. [30/09/2022] Best Paper Award (Full Paper Runner-Up) for our work titled “Creating Environmental Awareness in Education through IoT and Gamification” presented at ICL2022.
3. [10/09/2019] Our system with Elektra Kypridemou titled FoodDB: A Graph Visualization Interactive Tool was awarded the 2nd place in its category.