PASIPHAE’s academic mission is to support the undergraduate and postgraduate (MSc) educational activities of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the Hellenic Mediterranean University, through a number of taught lectures, laboratory-based training, internship placements, as well as via the supervision and guidance of final-year theses.
PASIPHAE’s staff is also actively involved in the advisory and supervisory boards of Doctoral research, which nowadays sum-up 8 PhD candidates. To this extent, and as part of Life Long Learning framework, PASIPHAE staff is actively involved in a number of training and teaching activities under the umbrella of ERASMUS, such as the recent Intensive Programme on Pervasive Networks and Service Infrastructures “PERSEUS”, which is funded by the State Scholarships Foundation of the Greek Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs.
Nikolaos Astyrakakis has a Master in Informatics Engineering and is currently working as an Associate Researcher and Cloud Engineer in the R&D Laboratory, Pasiphae Lab, of the Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU) in Crete, Greece. His research is mainly focused on cloud technologies, internet of things, computer network security, telecommunications and cognitive radio. Additionally, he is taking part in various European Horizon 2020 research projects, that focus on Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs), Medical and Health Supportive Systems, Virtualized Network Functions (VNF) and more.
Evangelos-Polynikis Nikas has a B.Sc in Computer Engineering from the Technical Educational Institute of Heraklion. He is a M.Sc student in Informatics Engineering of Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU) and is currently working in the R&D laboratory Pasiphae Lab of the HMU as a member of the DevOp.
Manos Rompogiannakis has a Bachelor of Engineering with Integrated Master in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Crete (TUC). He is currently working as an Associate Researcher in the R&D laboratory Pasiphae Lab of the HMU a member of the Back-end Development Team and DevOps Engineering Team, while taking part in several EU-funded research projects.
Konstantina Pityanou received her B.Sc. degree in Informatics Engineering – Software Engineering from Technological Educational Institute of Crete in 2019. In 2022 she received her M.Sc. degree in Informatics Engineering from the Hellenic Mediterranean University in Crete. She currently works as an Associate Researcher in the R&D Pasiphae Lab at the Hellenic Mediterranean University, and participates in EU-funded research projects, such as the 101070214 Eu-funded Research Project TRUSTEE and 101008701 Eu-funded Research Project Emerge.
Kalliopi Meladaki studied Mathematics at the University of Crete and acquired a Master Degree in Cognitive Science from the National and Kapodistrian University. Currently, she is a member of Pasiphae Lab as a research associate working on TRUSTEE project.
Dimitra Papatsaroucha has a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics from the University of Thessaly (UTH), and an M.Sc in Informatics Engineering from the Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU). She is currently working as an Associate Researcher in the R&D laboratory Pasiphae Lab of the HMU, acting as the Team Leader while also taking part in several EU-funded research projects, such as the HORIZON EUROPE CL4-DATA-2021-01-02 TRUSTEE project for which she is a member of the Technical Coordination Team. She is also a member of the Mataroa team of volunteers, acting as an Information Technology Instructor for the Coding Bees Programme that brings technology closer to women. Her research interests focus on human vulnerability assessment and risk assessment in cybersecurity, network intrusion detection systems, and user experience in emergency communications.
Xenofon Vourakis has a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Crete (UOC). He is currently working as a Research Associate in the Pasiphae Lab R&D laboratory of the Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU) and taking part in several EU-funded research projects. His main interests are full stack development, IoT and Cyber-Security.