Georgios LEVENTIS

Education: Georgios is a member of the research group and PhD candidate at the Geospatial Analytics Research Lab of the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics at Cyprus University of Technology (CUT), directed by Prof. Phaedon Kyriakidis. Georgios conducted both his bachelor (BSc.) and postgraduate (MSc.) studies at the Dept. of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of Aegean. Georgios has received scholarship for his PhD studies, awarded by the Cyprus State Scholarships Foundation (IKYK) Scholarship.

Professional background / participation in funded projects: As a member of the Geospatial Analytics Research Laboratory of the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics at Cyprus University of Technology (CUT), Georgios is employed as a researcher in several National and European -funded projects with most recent: project SaRoCy: “Delineating probable sea routes between Cyprus and its surrounding coastal areas at the start of the Holocene: A simulation approach”, an “Excellence Hub”, funded by the Research and Innovation Foundation of Cyprus and the Horizon TEAMING project ‘EXCELSIOR’; ERATOSTHENES: EΧcellence Research Centre for Earth Surveillance and Space-Based Monitoring of the Environment.
Georgios acts also as external research associate at the “Sustainable Island Futures: Comparing Small Island States and Subnational Island Jurisdictions: Towards Sustainable Island Futures” project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) in collaboration with the Dept. of Geography at the University of Aegean. Georgios currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the Marie Curie Alumni Association Cyprus Chapter (MCAA-Cy).
In the past, he was awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship as part of the “Initial Training Network on Digital Cultural Heritage” (ITN-DCH) project, as well as he was involved in various projects relevant to his fields of expertise, such as iMARECULTURE (Advanced VR, Immersive Serious Games and Augmented Reality as Tools to Raise Awareness and Access to European Underwater Cultural Heritage) and MedSTACH (Eastern Mediterranean Science and Technology Centre for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage). During his studies at the University of Aegean, he started his research career as research associate at the Intelligent Multimedia and Virtual Reality research laboratory, focusing on Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs).
Georgios showcasing great interpersonal and organization skills has co-organized successfully several international conferences like EuroMed 2016 held in Nicosia (Cyprus), the 22nd AGILE Conference on Geoinformation Science organized in Limassol (Cyprus) and the CAA 2021 “Digital Crossroads” held online on 14-18 June; the 48th Conference of CAA international, the organisation for Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology. Georgios has teaching experience in spatial analysis-related undergraduate courses as teaching assistant.

Research interests:

Georgios’ research interests include Spatial Analysis, Agent-Based Modeling, Geostatistics, Data Mining, Neural Networks, Cultural Heritage.

Selected publications:

• Kyriakidis P., Kavroudakis D., Fayad P., Hadjipetrou S., Leventis G. & Papakonstantinou A. (2021): Promoting the adoption of agent-based modelling for synergistic interventions and decision-making during pandemic outbreaks, in: Proceedings of the 24th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science AGILE: GIScience Series, 2, 44. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/agile-giss-2-44-2021
• Georgios Leventis, “Spatial ABM to model maritime connectivity in the pre-historic Eastern Mediterranean” In: A. Kmoch, E. Uuemaa, D. Nüst (eds.): Proceedings of the 5th AGILE (Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe) PhD School 2019, Tartu, November 25-28, 2019. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3835766.
• Nikolaidis, E. Akylas, C. Michailides, T. Moutsiou, G. Leventis, A. Constantinides, C. McCartney, S. Demesticha, V. Kassianidou, Z. Zomeni, D. Bar-Yosef Mayer, Y. Makovsky, and Ph. Kyriakidis, “Modeling drift-induced maritime connectivity between Cyprus and its surrounding coastal areas during early Holocene”, Poster, EGU General Assembly, 2020. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-19782.
• Kyriakidis, A. Agapiou, V. Lysandrou, N. Kyriakides, G. Leventis, V. Kassianidou, G., Papasavvas, M. Dikomitou‐Eliadou, A. Charalambous, T. Moutsiou, M. Ieronymidou, D. Pilides, A. Kaldeli, P. Pantelides, A. Bevan, M. Altaweel, D. Nenova, A. Sarris, J. Donati, N. Papadopoulos, “Designing a Science and Technology Centre of Excellence for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean”, Poster, 3rd CAA-GR Conference “Spreading Excellence in Computer Applications for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage”, Limassol, Cyprus, 2018.
• Margarita Papaefthymiou, Vasiliki Nikolakopoulou, Georgios Leventis, Matevz Domajnko, Marinos Ioannides and George Papagiannakis, “Projecting our Past to the Future – Challenges and Results: The Case of Asinou church”, 15th Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage, Graz, Austria, The Eurographics Association, 2017. DOI: 10.2312/gch.20171310.
• Georgios Leventis, “Protecting Cultural Heritage from Wildfires: A Neural Network Approach”, Poster, ITN-DCH Final Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage, Olimje, Slovenia, 2017.
• Marinos Ioannides, Rob Davies, Pavlos Chatzigrigoriou, Eirini Papageorgiou, Georgios Leventis, Vasiliki Nikolakopoulou and Vasilis Athanasiou, Chapter 6 “3D Digital Libraries and their Contribution in the Documentation of the Past ” in Mixed Reality and Gamification for Cultural Heritage, Springer International Publishing, 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49607-8_6.
• Antonios D. Niros, George Leventis, Dimitrios Tsolakis, George E. Tsekouras and Michael Kenteris, “A Hierarchical Fuzzy Clustering Framework for Training RBF Networks”, Proceedings of IASTED International Conference, Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC 2011), pp. 248 – 254, 2011. DOI: 10.2316/P.2011.716-058.