Panagiotis Zervas

Panagiotis Zervas serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Peloponnese since June 4, 2020. His academic career includes prior appointments as Assistant Professor at the Department of Music Technology and Acoustics, Hellenic Mediterranean University (2015–2020) and Technological Educational Institute of Crete (2015–2019), and as Lecturer at the same department of the Technological Educational Institute of Crete (2008–2015).

His research spans Natural Language Processing applications for text analysis, Large Language Models for structured data extraction, audio signal processing, and music information retrieval using machine learning. He specializes in developing AI-driven systems for knowledge mining from multimodal information, with applications in social protection and intelligent audio systems. His work integrates Retrieval-Augmented Generation techniques and focuses on embedded systems for IoT audio applications.

Zervas leads major European research initiatives including EU-ALMPO (2025–), Train4Blue (2025–), GROWTH4BLUE (2024–), and MICROIDEA (2024–) as Principal Investigator or Deputy Scientific Director. Since 2023, he collaborates with the World Bank as a Short-Term Consultant, first implementing Greece's National Skills Framework with AI-based skill profiling (2022–2024), and currently developing an AI-driven job matching portal for the Pacific Islands Network for Employment.

His teaching portfolio includes Signals & Systems, Digital Signal Processing, Statistical Processing & Learning, Audio & Music Technology, Machine Learning, and Educational Technology. He completed his PhD in 2007 at the University of Patras' Department of Electrical Engineering on Greek language modeling for text-to-speech systems, and has published in journals like Acoustics and Mathematics while presenting at conferences including Web Audio Conference (WAC2022) and Forum Acusticum 2023.