Andreas Aristidou          

Assistant Professor

Graphics & Extended Reality Lab, University of Cyprus
a.aristidou@ieee.org
Motion Capture, Motion Synthesis and Analysis, Character Animation, Machine Learning, Inverse Kinematics, Digital Heritage, Geometric Algebra

       

Andreas Aristidou is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, member of the Graphics & Extended Reality Lab, and a Senior Research Fellow at the CYENS centre 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 2024 (STARs Chair), SIGGRAPH Asia 2023, Pacific Graphics 2023, CASA 2023 (Program Chair), IMET 2023, Eurographics 2022 (Award Jury Chair), ACM-SCA 2022, CGI 2022, CASA 2022, ENGAGE 2022, IMET 2022, CAIP 2022, ACM-SCA 2021, CGI 2021, CASA 2021, ENGAGE 2021, ENGAGE 2020, ENGAGE 2019, MIG 2018, ENGAGE 2018.