Dr. STYLIANI KLEANTHOUS LOIZOU CURRICULUM VITAE

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1 Dr. STYLIANI KLEANTHOUS LOIZOU CURRICULUM VITAE Personal Details Name: Date of Birth: 21/06/1981 Nationality: Cypriot Marital Status: Married or Education Apostolos Varnavas Lyceum - Apolytirion Final Grade 16/ Intercollege, Cyprus - BSc Computer Science (GPA 3/4) University of Salford - MSc Information Systems (Distinction) Issues in Strategic Information Systems Electronic Commerce Knowledge Management Key Issues in Information Systems Development Research Methods Information Technology and Systems in Organisations Systems Development and Integration The Information Society MSc Thesis: E-Learning Strategies in Cyprus Higher Education University of Leeds - PhD User Modelling and User Adaptive Systems Thesis Title: Intelligent Support for Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Communities Achievements & Awards rd Prize awarded by the Cyprus Academy of Young Researchers (Project: Energy) 1999 Distinction by the Cyprus Academy of Young Researchers (Project: Physics in High School Education) 2005 MSc with Distinction by the University of Salford PhD Scholarship by the School of Computing, University of Leeds 2006 PROLEARN European Network of Excellence scholarship to attend 2006 PROLEARN Summer School, Bled Slovenia (Covering accommodation, travel and registration) 2007 Microsoft US $1300 Grant to attend 11 th International User Modelling Conference (Covering accommodation, travel and registration fees) 2007 PROLEARN European Network of Excellence grant to attend Professional Training Facts 2007, Fraunhofer IAO Stuttgart (Covering travel, registration and accommodation) 2010 UMAP US $1316 Grant to attend 18 th International User Modeling Adaptation and Personalization Conference (Covering travel expenses)

2 Work Experience Academic Administration Sep 2011 Jan 2012 Teaching Experience Quality Assurance Officer and Online Programme Development Officer at Intercollege - Larnaca Duties: Responsible for developing curriculum and new programme descriptions for online academic programmes delivered by UK Universities. I have among other duties, the responsibility for organising and attending group meetings, managing other group members and ensuring that the team is meeting set deadlines. Sep June 2012 Lecturer at Intercollege - Limassol Duties: Preparing and delivering lectures, tests projects and assignments for undergraduate students at the modules of Web Design I and Information Architecture Marking Assistant at the School of Computing, University of Leeds Duties: I was responsible for marking and grading coursework, assignments and programming exercises in the framework of the following modules: User Modelling and User Adaptive Systems People-Centred Information Systems Development Teaching Assistant at the School of Computing, University of Leeds Duties: Tutoring, Marking, Presentations. I was in charge of the support of a 30 member class, responsible for performing individual and group tutorials, for delivering lesson and lecturing on particular topics in the area of mathematical modelling. My duties also encompassed marking coursework related to mathematical modelling and delivering grades. Research Experience 4/2012 9/2012 Postdoctoral Research Fellow Cyprus University of Technology. Responsibilities: Responsible for analysing behavioural data of tourists and other related communities in the Mediterranean. Preparing research reports and publications and giving oral presentations related to the subject under study. 6/2010 3/2011 Research Assistant: Community modeling / semantic web researcher in the BRAIN project at the School of Computing, University of Leeds - Responsibilities: I am involved in the BRAIN project, which is funded by JISC, UK, and I am responsible among others for researching the social sciences field on how innovation can evolve through collaboration between researchers coming from different fields. My responsibilities include research report preparations, attending regular project meetings, and in collaboration with others involved to develop a tool that will support community innovation. Partners on BRAIN include researchers from: University of Leeds University of Coventry 9/ /2010 Research Assistant: DICODE project at the School of Computing, University of Leeds -

3 Responsibilities: DICODE project is funded by the EU and its goal is to facilitate and augment collaboration and decision making in dataintensive and cognitively-complex settings. My responsibilities include gathering user requirements from all partners that are involved as use cases in the project, researching and preparing reports regarding the state of the art in the area and investigating how technologies can inform the project goal. Partners on DICODE are coming from different parts of Europe: Research Academic Computer Technology Institute Greece University of Leeds UK Fraunhofer-Institut für Intelligente Analyse- und Informationssysteme Germany Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Spain Neofonie GmbH Germany Image Analysis Ltd UK Biomedical Research Foundation Greece Publicis Frankfurt GmbH Germany 9/ /2005 Researcher in the Edukalibre Project at the School of Computing, University of Leeds - Responsibilities: I participated in Edukalibre project, which was funded by the European Union, and I was responsible for the research preparation of a report on the deployment of ConDOR, the software developed at the School of Computing, University of Leeds. I became familiar with, and compose a technical report on how pedagogical and learning theories can be employed and used when developing systems to support e-learning and blended-learning approaches. As a participant I had the chance to work on a large-scale project, along with researchers from: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC) Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP) University of Karlsruhe (TH) Ustav teorie informace a automatizace (UTIA) School of Computing / Leeds University (SOC/LU) Universita della Svizzera Italiana / Institute of Communication Technologies (USI) Research Output Peer Reviewed Conference & Workshop Publications Kleanthous, S. and Dimitrova, V. (2010) Analyzing Community Knowledge Sharing Behavior, User Modeling, Adaptation, Personalization 2010, Hawaii, USA Kleanthous, S. and Dimitrova, V. (2009) Detecting Changes over Time in a Knowledge Sharing Community, The 2009 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence - WI'09, Milan, Italy Kleanthous, S. and Dimitrova, V. (2009) Semantically Enhanced Community Model for Identifying Relationships and Centrality in Virtual Communities, TEL-CoPs'09: 3rd International Workshop on Building Technology Enhanced Learning solutions for Communities of Practice Kleanthous, S. and Dimitrova, V. (2008) Modelling Semantic Relationships and Centrality to Facilitate Community Knowledge Sharing, 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia & Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH'08), Hannover, Germany

4 Kleanthous, S. (2007) Semantic-Enhanced Personalised Support for Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Communities, 11th International Conference on User Modeling, Corfu, Greece Kleanthous, S. and Dimitrova, V. (2007) A Semantic-Enhanced Approach for Modelling Relationships and Centrality in Virtual Communities, SociUM: 1st Workshop on Adaptation and Personalisation in Social Systems: Groups, Teams, Communities at 11th International Conference on User Modeling, Corfu, Greece Gonzalez-Barahona, J., Dimitrova, V., Chaparro, D., Tebb, C., Romera, T.,Canas, L., Matravers, J. and Kleanthous, S. (2006) Towards Community-Driven Development of Educational Materials: The Edukalibre Approach, 1st European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, Crete, Greece Kleanthous, S. and Dimitrova, V. (2006) Towards a Holistic Personalised Support for Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Learning Communities, 1st Workshop on TEL Communities of Practice, at 1st European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, Crete, Greece Journal Articles Kleanthous, S. and Dimitrova, V. (2012) Adaptive Notifications to Support Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Communities in User Modeling and User Adapted Interaction: Springer Netherlands (Available online from Springer) Kleanthous, S. and Bell, F. (2006) E-Learning Strategies in Cyprus, Pliroforiki Journal Vol. 15, Issue: December, pp , Cyprus Computer Society Reports Kleanthous, S., Dimitrova, V., Matravers, J., Tebb, C. (2005) Deployment of ConDOR, Edukalibre Deliverables, University of Leeds, UK Davis, E., Dimitrova, V., Tebb, C., Matravers, J., Kleanthous, S. (2005) Evaluation of ConDOR in an Undergraduate Course on Personalisation and User-Adaptive Systems at the University of Leeds, University of Leeds, UK Invited Talks Semantic - Enhanced Community Modelling to Support Knowledge Sharing, Presentation Given at FIT, Sankt Augustin, Germany Semantic-Enhanced Personalised Support for Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Communities, Presentation Given at Business School, University of Leeds. Organiser, PC Member & Reviewer for International Conferences 2007 Reviewer for International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED2007) 2007 PC Member & Reviewer for International Workshop on Building Technology Enhanced Learning solutions for Communities of Practice at European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL-CoPs'07) 2008 Reviewer for ACM International Conference on Computer Human Interaction (CHI2008) 2008 Reviewer for International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE2008 ) 2008 Reviewer for International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia (AH08 ) 2008 PC Member for PALETTE & PROLEARN Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning & Knowledge Management PC Member for JESS TEL - Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning 2009 Reviewer for International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED2009 )

5 2009 Reviewer for European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL2009 ) 2009 Member of the Organising Committee for International Workshop on adaptation and personalization for Web 2.0 at User Modelling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP) 2009 conference (AP-WEB 2.0 ) 2009 PC Member for the Special Session on Tags and Recommendations in Web 2.0 at the International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA) 2009 (TR-WEB 2.0 ) 2009 PC Member for Workshop on Social Information Retrieval for Technology-Enhanced Learning at the International Conference on Web-based Learning (SIRTEL'09 ) 2010 Member of the Organising Committee for International Workshop on Adaptation in Social and Semantic Web (SAS-Web) at the International Conference on User Modelling Adaptation Personalisation (UMAP) 2011 Reviewer for ACM International Conference on Computer Human Interaction (CHI2011) 2011 External Reviewer for International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalisation (UMAP 2011) 2011 PC member for E-Learning and Groupware Systems Track at the 5th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2011) 2011 PC member for ALT-C 2011 conference 2012 Reviewer for CHI Reviewer for ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2013) 2012 Reviewer and PC member for ALT-C conference Research Interests As a researcher, I have worked extensively on community and group modelling in order to create the appropriate context in which to focus on designing adaptive and personalised solutions for supporting knowledge sharing in virtual communities. In my Master s degree, I was given the opportunity to acquaint myself with technology support of E-Learning, acquire a deep interest in the field and complete a thesis on E-Learning Strategies in Cyprus Higher Education. My research interests further include collaborative work in virtual communities, and personalisation and user adaptive systems, supporting online and learning communities and large social networks. Through the BRAIN project I also became interested in modelling and supporting community collaboration for the creation of innovation in industry and academia. Furthermore, I would be interested to investigate the possibilities for how semantic web and Web 2.0 technologies can be exploited to support social systems and virtual communities especially in the processes of knowledge sharing and collaborative learning. Languages Greek: English: Native Fluent Programming Languages Java Advanced C++ Advanced Visual Basic Advanced

6 I have extensive experience in developing programs using the JAVA language and MySQL database and also developing programs that use and reason through semantic technologies (e.g. OWL ontologies). During my PhD work I had to design and develop algorithms that extracted information from databases, ontologies and mining graphs in order for support to be generated to community members. Databases MySQL Advanced Oracle Intermediate MS Access Advanced Web Design HTML Advanced Statistical Packages SPSS Advanced Attendance of Teaching Training Course University of Leeds Teaching Award 1 (ULTA-1) In the framework of this course I attended sessions and gained insight on the following aspects of university teaching: Assessing Student Work Learning and Teaching in Small Groups Learning and Teaching in Lectures Designing Learning Activities Evaluating & Developing your Teaching