George Kousiouris

George Kousiouris is an Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University of Athens. He holds a Ph.D. in Cloud Computing from the National Technical University of Athens (2012) and a Dipl. Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras (2005). His research focuses on Cloud Platforms, Serverless Computing (FaaS), IoT Infrastructure, and Performance Engineering.

He has led major EU-funded projects such as H2020 PHYSICS (lead architect), BigDataStack, and CloudPerfect, contributing to cloud service benchmarking, FaaS frameworks, and edge-cloud collaboration. His work emphasizes practical applications in healthcare, smart agriculture, and urban network analysis.

Over 70 publications highlight his expertise in cloud resource optimization, service-level agreements, and data-driven infrastructure management. His recent work explores sustainable computing, human-AI collaboration, and conversational AI for MLOps.

• Key Projects: PHYSICS, BigDataStack, CloudPerfect, SLALOM, COSMOS
• Research Highlights: FaaS performance benchmarking, IoT event processing, hybrid-cloud workflows
• Awards/Grants: Multiple EU H2020 and FP7 project leadership roles

He advises on cloud migration methodologies (e.g., ARTIST framework) and contributes to regulatory compliance frameworks like GDPR via semantic ontologies.