Athena Research Center

📢 We are thrilled to announce that AviSense.AI, a spin-off of the Institute of Industrial Systems (ISI) at the Athena Research Center, has achieved a remarkable victory at the EUSPA - EU Agency for the Space Programme Cassini Challenges. #AviSenseAI innovative solution, SpaceCAR/ AviSense AI, was named the winner of the Prototype Track.   🏆 This important award highlights the potential of EU Space technologies to enhance driver situational awareness in connected vehicles. By leveraging advanced augmented reality (AR) interfaces and space-assisted collaborative perception systems, AviSense AI is at the forefront of improving automotive safety and performance.     🙏 At Athena Research Center, we are particularly proud of the recognition of the AviSense AI team as it represents an important opportunity to contribute to the advancement of the automotive industry. ➡️ Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dTUe_YDj #AthenaRC #cassiniEU #EUSpace

🌐 Join us for an #OpenAIRE webinar on Open Science and Citizen Science initiatives, presented by Dr. Christos Papatheodorou, Professor of Library and Information Systems at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. 📅 This session, scheduled for Thursday, May 16, 2024, at 11:00 AM EET, will dive into educational actions stemming from the CIVIS - Europe's Civic University Alliance and their impact on current research and educational practices. ➡️ Learn more and register now! https://lnkd.in/g4VkjyPa #AthenaRC #OpenScience #CitizenScience

💥 Exciting news! France has been selected as the host for the future European Research Infrastructure dedicated to Industrial Biotechnology, IBISBA-ERIC, launching in 2026. 🇬🇷 From Greece, the Athena Research Center, in collaboration with the National Technical University of Athens, have already joined IBISBA, and strongly support and contribute to IBISBA-ERIC's launch and operation. For us, in Athena Research Center, is a challenge to promote the digitalization of Industrial Biotechnology, and contribute to the IT infrastructures needed to support the IBISBA computational services and operational data governance needs. We're excited about the opportunities this will bring to further our research and collaborations.     ➡️ Learn more: https://lnkd.in/d99Z7ZWC #AthenaRC #IBISBA #IndustrialBiotechnology #CircularEconomy #EuropeanResearch #EUInnovation #ResearchImpact

🗣️ Aggelik - Angeliki Fotopoulou, Director of Research at the Institute of Speech Processing at the Athena Research Center, will be the keynote speaker at the online seminar focusing on the challenges and prospects of equality in the workplace. 📅 The webinar will take place on Monday, May 13, 2024, from 10:00 to 11:00 AM. It is hosted under the auspices of Work Group 7 "Balancing Professional and Personal Life – Inclusive Environment" by the National Network of Equality Committees and Anti-Discrimination of Research Centers and Independent Research Institutes. 🖥️ The seminar will focus on 'Gendered Discourse', exploring discussions on the challenges and opportunities for equality in the workplace. The event is coordinated by the Equality Committee of the Hellenic Agricultural Organization-Demeter - ΕΛΓΟ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΑ. ➡️ Read more: https://lnkd.in/duiKemET #AthenaRC #GenderEquality #WorkplaceInclusion #OnlineSeminar

The Athena Research Center has signed a long-awaited contract for the construction of a new, energy-efficient building in Patras, costing €4.8 million. The building, to be constructed adjacent to the existing facility, will house the Institute of Industrial Systems among other activities, covering an area of 2,980 sqm. The contract was signed by Nektarios Farmakis, Governor of Western Greece, Ioannis Emiris, President and General Director of Athena, and Stavros Kamariotis, President of the contracting company, as part of the European "Greece 2.0" plan and is funded by Next Generation EU. ➡️ Read more: https://lnkd.in/dY-cSUC6 #AthenaRC #NewBuilding #Construction #Patras Region Of Western Greece Industrial Systems Institute / Research Centre ATHENA Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF / ΤΑΙΠΕΔ)

Georgia (Yuli) Koutrika, Director of Research at the Institute of Information Systems at the Athena Research Center, speaks with journalist Elektra Zargani at utopiazone about artificial intelligence (AI) in light of her participation at the Athens Science Festival 2024. She elucidates how AI is everywhere, impacting our lives and shaping our future. She explores the possibilities and risks associated with AI, citing examples such as content platforms and social networks where algorithms learn and analyze our preferences to offer tailored suggestions, albeit potentially creating restrictive "bubbles". ➡️ Read more: https://bit.ly/3UF347e #AthenaRC #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

OPEN POSITIONS FOR DOCTORAL CANDIDATES The SMARTECH department at Isi Athena offers 4 positions for Doctoral Candidates in the framework of two Doctoral Networks (EXACT-6G and EMPOWER-6G). The Doctoral Candidates will work in collaboration with other academic institutions and industrial partners with expertise in all 6G areas and will become memberσ of a competitive research team with reputation in top-notch publications and access to cutting-edge experimental facilities and a competitive salary. EXACT-6G 1️⃣  Title: Inter Distributed Intelligent Management Orchestrator (DIMO) intent and policy propagation and monitoring To design Service Level Agreement itent translation and intent propagation over DIMO solutions for 6G wireless networks. The expected results include, Intelligent mechanisms to translate SLA to intents, define a unified intent models to propagate over DIMO and service recomposition using intent and SLA monitoring. 2️⃣ Title: DRL driven Decision Engines for self-healing and self-managed microservices The objectives of this PhD position are to generate decisions that take the 6G system to the desired state fulfilling business intents in real time and to offer  auto-redundancy, load-balancing and self-healing capabilities for the extended edge infrastructure. The expected results include, to deliver a set of Decision Engines (DEs), one per compute continuum domain, that implement control loops towards decentralized zero-touch service management, to implement Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning algorithms within the DE control loop and to deliver coordinated operations between the DIMOs and the respective DEs to offer intent-to-policy translation and unification. EMPOWER-6G 1️⃣ Title: Regional network design for Cell-Free (CF) and hybrid mMIMO fronthauling To deploy the Operations-Central Unit-Control Plane (O-CU-CP) and, Operations-Central Unit-Control Plane (O-CU-UP), and Open RAN Distributed Unit nodes in the converged CF-based optical-wireless configuration and to determine algorithms for the optimal location of Radio Units (RU) and mMIMO antenna based on the optical components’ locations. 2️⃣  Title: Design of a multi-tier MEC federation paradigm To overcome the limitations of centralized ML-driven control approaches when applied to the multi-tier EMPOWER-6G configuration and to provide support to the elastic disaggregation, replication and migration of Cloud-Native MEC applications. Apply here For the EXACT-6G: https://lnkd.in/d9U6TeMn For the EMPOWER-6G https://lnkd.in/d98UjtHH European Research Executive Agency (REA) European Commission IEEE IEEE Vehicular Technology Society IEEE Communications Society IEEE Athena Research Center #PhDJob #PhDPosition #DoctoralJob #ResearchPosition #PostGraduateOpportunity #DoctorateDegree #AcademicJobs #PhDResearch #GraduateResearch #DoctoralCandidate #PhDStudents #PhDRecruitment #PhDOpportunity #6g #ai #ml #xai #5g #B5G #6GNetworks #3gpp #DeepLearning #federatedlearning

Ερευνητικές 🧠 Μονάδες που δημιουργούν κοινότητες συνεργασίας, κορυφαίων πρωτοβουλιών και ελπίδας για το κοινό μας μέλλον - αυτή είναι η αποστολή μας! Ο Timos Sellis γράφει για τους στόχους της Μονάδας ARCHIMEDES Research on AI, Data Science, and Algorithms του Ερευνητικού Κέντρου Αθηνά, για τη δέσμευση να "μεγαλώσει" μια νέα γενιά ελλήνων επιστημόνων δίνοντάς τους την ευκαιρία να συμμετάσχουν σε υψηλής ποιότητας #έρευνα. Στο σημερινό τεύχος του #opanews με το @tovimagr που επιμελείται ο Ion Androutsopoulos, γράφουν και άλλοι κορυφαίοι της #τεχνητήςνοημοσύνης, συνεργάτες της Μονάδας Αρχιμήδης: Κωνσταντίνος Δασκαλάκης, Χρήστος Παπαδημητρίου, Theodoros Evgeniou, Lilian Mitrou, Sophia Ananiadou. #AthenaRC Athens University of Economics and Business

👏 🥇 Congratulations AviSense.AI for the great achievement. We are proud to see the work of #athenaRC researchers getting the recognition it deserves. AviSense.AI is a spin-off company out of Industrial Systems Institute / Research Centre ATHENA. Aris Lalos and team, we are rooting for you, keep up the amazing work! EUSPA - EU Agency for the Space Programme