Dimitris Zisis

Associate Professor Dimitris Zisis leads the Smart Move Laboratory at the University of the Aegean's Department of Product & Systems Design Engineering, focusing on autonomous vessels and marine robotics. His research spans maritime informatics, trajectory analytics, and Big Data applications. He has published over 80 works with 3,900+ citations, including a top-0.1% cited paper on cloud computing security.

As a Horizon Europe National Representative for Cluster 4 (Digital, Industry, Space), he advises EU digital policy. He previously led BDVA's Data Science/AI Task Force and participated in EU High-Level Expert Groups on B2G data sharing. He chairs the IEEE's maritime systems committees and edits Elsevier's Future Generation Computer Systems journal.

• Projects: Horizon 2020 VesselAI, INFORE, BigDataOcean
• Awards: Top 2% scientist in Information Systems (2019-2021)
• Memberships: IEEE Senior Member, Hellenic Institute of Marine Technology Fellow

His lab develops advanced maritime systems, including the Accu-Waves platform for port safety and the Ro-Boat Race for autonomous vessel innovation. Recent work emphasizes federated learning for vessel location forecasting, scalable maritime event detection, and digital twin applications.