Short Biography

Marios D. Dikaiakos is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus. He is the Founding Director of the Laboratory for Internet Computing. He also served as founding Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship of the University (1/2015-1/2021) and Head of the Computer Science Department (2010-2014). Dikaiakos received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University (1994), an M.A. degree from Princeton (1991), and a Dipl.-Ing. degree from the National Technical University of Athens (summa cum laude, 1988). He was a Research Associate at the University of Washington in Seattle (1994-1995) and has held short-term visiting positions at the Paris Research Lab of Digital Equipment Corporation, France, the University of Crete, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and Rutgers University, USA.

Research Activities

Dikaiakos’ research focuses on Distributed Computing Systems and applications of Machine Learning and Data Science, with recent work on energy-efficient cloud and edge infrastructures, LLM-based and agentic systems, systems management and automation, and computational approaches to misinformation, polarization, entrepreneurship, and ethnographic research. He has been a principal and co-principal institutional investigator or principal investigator for more than 30 projects funded by the European Union and the Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus, and has published over 200 papers in books, international scientific journals and refereed conference proceedings, and was in charge of the development of research software systems released internationally as open source. More information on ongoing projects, open research positions, past and future events can be found on the Web site of the Laboratory for Internet Computing.

Teaching Activities

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