National Technical University of Athens

Department Member, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Other Affiliations: IEEE, IEEE Greece

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Dr. Kostas Karpouzis graduated from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, of the National Technical University of Athens in 1998 and received his Ph.D degree in 2001 from the same University. His current research interests lie in the areas of human computer interaction, serious games for learning and e-health, emotion understanding and multimodal databases. Dr. Karpouzis has published more than 110 papers in international journals and proceedings of international conferences; he is also a co-editor of the 'Humaine Handbook on Emotion research', a contributor to the K. Scherer's 'Blueprint for an affectively competent agent' and a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Multimodal User Interfaces, the Journal of Research on Synthetic Emotions and the IEEE Trans. on Affective Computing. Since 1995 he has participated in more than twelve research projects at Greek and European level; most notably the Humaine Network of Excellence, within which he completed his post-doc in the field of mapping signals to signs of emotion and the FP7 Siren TeL STREP (Technical Manager). Dr. Karpouzis is an associate researcher at the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) and holds an adjunct lecturer position at the National Technical University of Athens, Computer Graphics. He is also a national representative in IFIP Working Groups 12.5 'Artificial Intelligence Applications' and 3.2 'Informatics and ICT in Higher Education' and a member of the Executive Committee of the Humaine Association. He is a member of ISRE (International Society for Research on Emotion) and EUCogII, an elected member of the Executive Committee of the Humaine Association and leads (along with G. Yannakakis – ITU) the Humaine Special Interest Group (SIG) on Emotion in Games and Entertainment.

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