ABOUT

Dr. Panagiotis Kikiras is the Deputy Head of Unit of Unit A1 “Excellence in AI and Robotics” at the AI office of the European Commission. He has more than 20 years of experience in computer and network engineering with strong emphasis in IoT, wireless sensors architectures and analytics, embedded systems, wearables, cyber defence, security and privacy and in mission critical C4ISR systems. 

He is a graduate of the Hellenic Army Military Academy and holds an MSc in Management and Economics of Communication Networks from the Univ. of Athens, an MSc and PHD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and has concluded a post-doc research at the University of Thessaly entitled “ AI ENABLED CYBER DEFENCE WITH EMPHASIS ON MILITARY APPLICATIONS”. 

Prior to the European Commission, Panagiotis hold a number of leading positons in industry, governmental agencies and in academia including the position of Head of Unit Technology and Innovation at the Research Technology and Innovation Directorate at the European Defence Agency (EDA). From his tenure in governmental agencies, he gained significant expertise in managing complex European and National projects in the areas of homeland security and defense and in the design, development and management of large scale sensor based mission critical IT Systems. In Academia he was an Adj. Assoc. Professor at Univ. of Thessaly in Greece, where he created, and was the Technical Director, of the Wireless Sensor Sensing Laboratory. In industry he held a leading management position at a research center of a leading innovative multinational company with track record of creating value both to customers, by delivering turnkey innovative solutions, and to research excellence by managing a research team which created new intellectual property and scientific knowledge in terms of patents and scientific publications. 

Panagiotis has published more than 80 papers in scientific peer-reviewed journals and conferences in the areas of IoT architectures and analytics, AI, cyber defence, security and privacy and is a Senior Member of the IEEE.