ELPIDA TZAFESTAS
Associate Professor
Artificial Intelligence
Phone: +30-210-7275522
E-mail: etzafestas[at]phs.uoa[dot]gr
Electrical and Computer Engineer (NTU, Athens), M.Sc. and Ph.D. on Artificial Intelligence (Univ. Paris VI, France). She has been a senior researcher in the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (NTU, Athens) and has taught a number of undergraduate courses on computer science and graduate courses on intelligent, complex and biological systems. In the University of Athens she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, complex systems and modeling. She has been the principal investigator in numerous national and european R&D projects and has authored over a hundred articles in journals, books and conference proceedings, most of them as a single author. She serves on several editorial boards and is frequent reviewer for journals, conferences and research grants. Her research interests lie on the intersection of complex and cognitive systems and focus on modeling of social, biological and psychological behavior. She is also interested in generative art and sustainable development.