Athanasios Tsipis

Supervisor: Assistant Professor Vasilios Komianos
(start: September 2023)

Dr. Athanasios Tsipis received in 2015 his B.Sc. in Informatics with a specialization in the field of “Information Systems” from the Dept. of Informatics of the Ionian University (IU), Greece. Two years later, in February 2017, he received his M.Sc. in Informatics with honors in the scientific route of “Information Technology and Information Systems”, for which he was awarded a full tuition-free scholarship. In January 2021, Athanasios completed his doctoral studies, receiving his Ph.D. in Informatics with honors at the aforementioned Department. His Ph.D. dissertation is entitled “Network Resource Optimization in Cloud Computing Environments”.

As a Ph.D. student, Athanasios was employed at the Directorate of Informatics & Networks as well as the Dept. of Music Studies of the IU, and has contributed to the assistance and teaching of a number of courses for the Dept. of Informatics and the Dept. of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpretation. Since 2015 and to this day, Athanasios is a researcher at the “Networks, Multimedia and Security Systems Laboratory” (NMSLab). During this time, he has been involved in several R&D projects, funded by both EU and national resources, and has co-authored a series of similar research proposals and scientific publications. In 2021, he was with the Dept. of Informatics, IU, as an Academic Scholar in the subject area of "Data and Information Analysis", while in 2022 he was with the Dept. of Tourism, IU, as an Academic Scholar in the subject area of "Applications and Services of New Technologies in Tourism". Currently, Dr. Tsipis serves Postdoctoral Researcher at the the Dept. of Audio and Visual Arts, IU, as well as an Adjunct Lecturer at the Dept. of Digital Media and Communication, IU, for the Masters Program "New Media of Communication and Digital Marketing" and at the Dept. of Environment, IU, for the Interdepartmental Masters Program "Preservation and Management of Cultural Heritage".

He is a reviewer of numerous international conferences and scientific journals in the area and a guest editor for special issues targeted at the intersection of networking and immersive systems for digital culture and gaming technologies. In 2021 he was the recipient of the best paper award from the 26th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), while in 2024 he was honored with the "Best Paper Award" from the 5th Panhellenic Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage (EuroMed 2023). His current research interests are reflected in a plethora of research articles and papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and international conference proceedings, and include subjects relating to the convergence between digital culture and extended reality (virtual, augmented, mixed), user interaction design (user interface, experience, behavior, immersion and assessment), gamification and serious games, cultural informatics and educational applications, as well as artificial intelligence and performance optimization in video games and multimedia networking systems.

Selected articles in scientific journals / conferences:

(Google Scholar)

• Τσίπης, Α., Φαναριώτη, Σ., Κοντοπανάγου, Α. Κ., και Κομιανός, Β., "Εναλλακτικές Πραγματικότητες και Ψηφιακές Εφαρμογές για την Ανάδειξη Αρχιτεκτονικής Κληρονομιάς: Η Περίπτωση της Κέρκυρας και του Έργου v-Corfu", in the 5ο Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Ψηφιοποίησης Πολιτιστικής Κληρονομιάς - EuroMed 2023 (in English: 5th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage), 06-09 Μαρτίου, Λάρισα, Ελλάδα, 2024. 
  
  
• Kontopanagou, K., Tsipis, A., and Komianos, V., "Fostering Cultural Awareness in Museums and Monuments by Employing Extended Reality", Global Journal of Archaeology and Anthropology, vol. 13, no. 4, 555870, 2024. DOI: 10.19080/GJAA.2024.13.555870.
  
  
• Tsipis, A., Komianos, V., Oikonomou, K., and Stavrakakis, I., ‘‘Towards Fairness and QoE-Based Edge Allocation for Multiplayer Virtual Reality Applications in Edge Computing’’, ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 854-873, 2022. DOI: 10.52953/VAVY1919.
  
  
• Tsipis A., and Oikonomou, K., ‘‘Joint optimization of social interactivity and server provisioning for interactive games in edge computing’’, Computer Networks, vol. 212, p. 109028, 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2022.109028.
  
  
• Tsipis A., and Oikonomou, K., ‘‘ARPA: An autonomous renderer placement algorithm in distributed multimedia fog networks with delay guarantees’’, ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 81-108, 2021. DOI: 10.52953/TSDT6782.
  
  
• Tsipis, A., and Oikonomou, K., ‘‘Player Assignment in MEC Gaming for Social Interactivity and Server Provisioning Optimization’’, in 2021 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (IEEE ISCC), pp. 1-7, IEEE, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/ISCC53001.2021.9631480.
  
  
• Kontopanagou, K., Tsipis A., and Komianos, V., ‘‘A Framework for Exploring Churches/Monuments/Museums of Byzantine Cultural Influence Exploiting Immersive Technologies in Real-Time Networked Environments’’, Technologies, vol. 9, no. 3, 2021. DOI: 10.3390/technologies9030057.