Konstantinos Kotis

Konstantinos Kotis is an Associate Professor and Team Leader at the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean, and a Research Associate at the AI Lab of the University of Piraeus. He leads the Semantic Web of Things group and directs the Postgraduate Studies in Cultural Informatics. Kotis has held roles including IT Manager at regional governmental bodies (2000–2018) and committee member for entry-level exams and procurement since 2019. He is also Deputy Manager for student placements in industry and government sectors.

Education: BSc in Computation from the University of Manchester, UK, and PhD in Information Management (Knowledge Representation/Management) from the University of the Aegean, Greece. Postdoctoral roles include positions at the University of the Aegean’s AI Lab (2010–2015), VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland as an ERCIM fellow (2011–2012), and the University of Piraeus’s AI Lab (2013–2018).

Research interests span Knowledge Engineering, Semantic Web technologies, Semantic Data Management, and IoT. He focuses on ontology development for domains like healthcare (e.g., Wear4PDmoveOnto for PD patient monitoring), cybersecurity in IoT (IoT Trust Ontology), and semantic integration of cultural heritage data. Kotis has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications (h-index 21) and contributed to projects such as Grid4All (FP7, 2008), iCore (FP7, 2012), and Time Machine (H2020, 2019).

Scientific awards include the ERCIM ‘Allain Bensoussan’ post-doctoral fellowship (2011–2012). His work bridges academic research and practical applications, emphasizing semantic interoperability, fairness in AI, and ontology-driven decision support systems. He actively supervises graduate/postgraduate research and collaborates on ontology frameworks like the Semantic Social Network of Things.