Professor Nicolas Tsapatsoulis is the Vice Rector for Academic Affairs at Cyprus University of Technology. He holds a Ph.D degree, in Image Analysis and Synthesis, from the School of Electrical and Computer Eng. of the National Technical University of Athens (2000). He joined the Department of Communication and internet Studies in January 2008 where he is now a full Professor. His research interests include multimedia information retrieval, web data mining, recommender systems, collective intelligence and affective computing. He has published more than 160 papers in international journals, book chapters and proceedings of international conferences. His research has been recognised by the international research community through more than 4000 independent citations.
He served as a general chair for the SMAP 2019, IEEE CyberSciTech 2018, Sound and Music Computing 2018, and SMAP 2010 conferences and he is a member of the advisory committee of IEEE CyberSciTech and the steering committee of SMAP.