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Qualifications

PhD Candidate, University of Central Lancashire, 2018 – Present

BSc (Hons) Computing, UCLan Cyprus, 2018

Specialization

Computing, Software Engineering

Employment Track

Associate Lecturer, UCLan Cyprus (2019-Present)

Research Associate, UCLan Cyprus (2018-2019)

Research Interests

Software engineering, Distributed Systems, Real-time Systems, Cloud Computing, Game-based learning environments

Roles and Responsibilities (including past roles and responsibilities)

Teaching and Course Leadership 

• The Computing Challenge (2020-Present)
• Distributed Enterprise Systems (2022-Present)
• Introduction to Programming (2019-Present)
• Explorations in Computing (2021-Present)
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Selective Publications 

• Paspallis, N., Kasenides, N. and Piki, A., 2022, June. A Software Architecture for Developing Distributed Games that Teach Coding and Algorithmic Thinking. In 2022 IEEE 46th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC) (pp. 101-110). IEEE.
• Kasenides, N. and Paspallis, N., 2022. Athlos: A Framework for Developing Scalable MMOG Backends on Commodity Clouds. Software, 1(1), pp.107-145.
• Kasenides, Nicos  and Paspallis, Nearchos  (2021) aMazeChallenge: An interactive multiplayer game for learning to code. In: 29th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2021)., 8-10 September 2021, Valencia, Spain.
• Kasenides, N. and Paspallis, N., 2020, September. Multiplayer game backends: A Comparison of commodity cloud-based approaches. In European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (pp. 41-55). Springer, Cham.
• Kasenides, N. and Paspallis, N., 2019. A Systematic Mapping Study of MMOG Backend Architectures. Information, 10(9), p.264.

Selective Conference and Seminar Presentations 

8^th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2020) –  Multiplayer game backends: A Comparison of commodity cloud-based approaches

Scholarships/Awards

• ONEK (Cyprus Youth Organization) Scholarship (2018) for undertaking the MPhil/PhD research topic “Methods and Tools for Developing MMOG back-ends using Commodity Cloud Platforms”.
• ONEK (Cyprus Youth Organization) Scholarship (2017) for undertaking the project “aMazeChallenge”.