Short biography
Christos Tjortjis was born
in Ioannina, Greece
, where he completed his
primary and secondary education. He was awarded a DEng(Hons) in Computer Engineering
and Informatics (5 year studies) from the Department of Computer Engineering &
Informatics at the University of Patras,
and a BSc(Hons) in Law (4 year studies) from the Law School at the Democritus University of Thrace, in Greece. After
completing his National Service (19 months), he gained industrial experience as
a consultant working for Dodoni
S.A.. He also gained academic experience working as a
researcher for the Department of Mathematics at
the University of Ioannina.
He then moved to Manchester, U.K.,
for an MPhil in Computation at UMIST, and subsequently a PhD in Informatics at
the University of
Manchester
. He has worked
as a researcher on the ESPRIT HYPERBANK project for UMIST, and as Research
Associate to the Pro Vice-Chancellor Prof. P.J. Layzell.
He was awarded an Honorary Lectureship in 2001, and was elected and appointed to a
Lectureship in 2002, with the Department of Computation, UMIST, which became
the
School of Informatics
, University of Manchester
in 2004. His appointment was later confirmed (granted tenure). He
transferred to the School
of Computer Science in 2006, where he worked until 2008. He then returned
to Greece to an adjunct Senior Lectureship with the University of Western Macedonia, Dept.
Engineering Informatics and Telecommunications and an
adjunct Senior Lectureship with the University
of Ioannina, Dept. of
Computer Science, maintaining an honorary Lectureship with the School of Computer Science at
Manchester. Christos also acted (2004-2012) as External Moderator for
the Nottingham Business School,
Nottingham Trent University. He was elected
(3/2011) and appointed (12/2013) Assistant Professor in Decision Support and
Knowledge Discovery systems at the International Hellenic University
(IHU), School of Science & Technology. He was elected (9/19) Associate Professor and Professor (11/23) in Knowledge Discovery and Software Engineering systems. He was the Dean of the School of Science and Technology, and Chair of the Department of Science and Technology International Hellenic University (2021-23). He is Programme Director for the MSc
in Smart Cities and Communities, the MSc in Data Science, the MSc in ICT systems, the MSc in Mobile and Web Computing: Internet of Things Applications, and the MSc in Cybersecurity, at IHU.
He is Associate Editor for the IET Smart Cities Journal.
He led a number of research projects on software
quality assurance using data mining, as well as on strategic maintenance and
evolution of software. He was also involved as a principal investigator or
co-investigator in a number of software and knowledge management projects. He
has published over 120 papers in international referred journals and conferences
and has been PC member in over 120 international conferences. He leads a team of
PhD students and researchers in the areas of code,
biological, text, social media and data mining, as well as smart cities and spoirts analytics.
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