Andreas Aristidou is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, member of the Graphics & Extended Reality Lab, and a Research Fellow at the CYENS center of excellence with special interest in computer graphics and character animation. He completed his PhD as a Cambridge European Trust fellow at the Signal Processing and Communications Laboratory, University of Cambridge and holds an MSc in Mobile and Personal Communications from King's College London, where he graduated with honors. Dr. Aristidou also obtained a BSc in Informatics and Telecommunications from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He previously worked as a research fellow at Shandong University (China), IDC Herzliya (Israel), and the University of Cyprus, and participated in a number of EU funded projects. He is currently on the editorial board of The Visual Computer (TVC) and Heritage journals, and is a guest editor for the Frontiers in Virtual Reality and Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras (AACA) journals. He is a senior member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM, SM from 2020), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE, SM from 2019), and Eurographics. He is also a member of the Cyprus Scientific and Technical Chamber, where he previously served as a member of the Research Committee, while from 2020-2021, he was a member of the Cyprus Parallel Parliament for research, innovation, and digital governance. He has received numerous fellowships, distinctions, and research grants from highly competitive local, EU, and international agencies.
His main research interests lie at the intersection of computer graphics, virtual reality, and vision. He specializes in character animation (analysis, classification, and synthesis) and employs various techniques, including motion capture, inverse kinematics, and machine learning for virtual humans (deep and reinforcement learning). He is also actively involved in research related to digital heritage (intangible cultural creations), VR/AR/XR environments, and applications of conformal geometric algebra in graphics. He has published over 50 papers in top-tier journals and international conferences, including SIGGRAPH, ACM TOG, IEEE TVCG, and Eurographics. He participated in a number of EU funded projects, and he collaborates with EU creative industries to design innovative algorithm for motion synthesis and character retargeting.
International Program Committee: Eurographics 2022 (Award Jury Chair), ACM-SCA 2022, CGI2022, CASA2022, ENGAGE2022, ACM-SCA2021, CGI2021, CASA2021, ENGAGE2021, ENGAGE2020, ENGAGE2019, MIG2018, ENGAGE2018.
In collaboration with Prof. Yiorgos Chrysanthou, at the Real-time populated environments MRG group, CYENS centre of Excellence. We are looking for talented scholars with a strong interest in researching novel methods in computer animation, with emphasis on Virtual Humans. This project is in close collaboration with Huawei's Israeli R&D center. You can visit the link below for more information. If you are interested in joining our vibrant research team at the CYENS Centre of Excellence, please send me a message.
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In collaboration with Prof. Yiorgos Chrysanthou and Dr. Panayiotis Charalambous, at CYENS centre of Excellence. We are looking for talented scholars with a strong interest in researching novel methods in computer animation, with emphasis on Virtual Humans. You can visit the link below for more information. If you are interested in joining our vibrant research team at the CYENS Centre of Excellence, please send me a message.
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In collaboration with Prof. Yiorgos Chrysanthou and Dr. Panayiotis Charalambous, at CYENS centre of Excellence. We are looking for talented scholars with a strong interest in researching novel methods in computer animation, with emphasis on Virtual Humans. You can visit the link below for more information. If you are interested in joining our vibrant research team at the CYENS Centre of Excellence, and get a PhD degree from the Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, please send me a message.
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In collaboration with Dr. Fotis Liarokapis, at the Extended Experiences MRG group, CYENS centre of Excellence. Extended Experiences MRG focuses on virtual and augmented environments as well as human-machine interactions generated by computer technology and wearables. Advanced extended reality combines human senses, and it requires new strategies for the design and implementation of novel applications and systems. The goal of this MRG is to focus on three related broad areas including: (a) extended reality, (b) advanced interaction and (c) physiological interfaces.
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