Research by School of Sciences

(Irene Polycarpou, Josephina Antoniou, Nearchos Paspallis, Panayiotis Andreou, Marios Raspopoulos, Andriani Piki, Louis Nisiotis, Panagiota Nikolaou, Christoforos Charalambous, Christiana Ioannou, Christoforos Christoforou, Nicos Kasenides).

• Educational Technology (Irene Polycarpou, Andriani Piki, Nicos Kasenides)
  • Educational Software
    • Educational games for STEM subjects
    • Simulations for STEM subjects (e.g., virtual laboratories)
    • Instructional software for STEM subjects
    • Independent Learning software for STEM subjects
    • Practice software for STEM subjects
    • Interactive multimedia for education
    • E-learning
    • Educational 3D Virtual Worlds and XR Environments
  • Use of technologies (e.g., smart mobile devices, tablets, wikis, blogs, podcasts, videoconferencing, and social media) in education (Andriani Piki)
    • Use of technologies to aid instruction of STEM concepts
    • Use of technologies to aid independent learning of STEM concepts
    • Impact of technology adoption in education
    • Student engagement with technology (Andriani Piki)
    • Immersive Learning Technologies
    • Computer supported collaborative work
    • Virtual Learning Communities
  • K-12 education
    • Use of educational technologies for K-12 mathematics and science
    • Development of educational software for K-12 STEM subjects

• Computer Science Education (Irene Polycarpou, Andriani Piki, Nearchos Paspallis)
  • Computer science curriculum
    • Investigation into students’ difficulties with specific computer science concepts
  • Female participation in computer science
    • Recruitment and retention of female students into the field of computer science

• Networks (Josephina Antoniou)
  • Wireless and Mobile networks (Christoforos Christoforou)
    • Wireless networks technology enhancements
    • Context-Aware Session Management/Radio Resource Management in mobile networks, security concerns
  • Mathematical modelling for networks
    • Modelling for decision-making (game theory, Bayesian principles, cooperative strategies)
  • Topics in emerging technologies (cloud computing, IoT, smart systems) (Christoforos Christoforou, Christiana Ioannou, Nicos Kasenides )
    • Privacy Concerns & Tactical Decisions (content owner/content user)
    • Advanced content manipulation (creation, management, delivery)
    • Responsible development and use
  • Wireless Sensor Networks (Christoforos Christoforou)
    • Energy-efficient communication
    • Mobility
    • Fault Tolerance
  • 5G/6G Mobile Networks and Innovative Concepts (Christoforos Christoforou)
    • The UE-VBS Computing Concept
    • Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) in 6G Mobile Networks
    • Decentralized and intelligent cellular infrastructures.

• Cybersecurity (Josephina Antoniou, Andria Procopiou)
  • Cybersecurity curriculum design
  • Cybersecurity education & educational technologies
  • Wireless, mobile, ad-hoc and sensor network security
  • Cryptography/Information Security
  • Hate Speech Detection and Analysis on Social Media Platforms
  • Internet of Things (IoT)/Smart Cities Security, Privacy and Safety(also Christiana I.)
  • Intrusion Detection using Machine Learning and AI techniques (also Christiana I.)
  • Metaverse Security, Safety and Privacy
  • Ethical Hacking using AI
  • Intrusion Prevention Techniques using AI

• User Experience in ICT (Josephina Antoniou)
  • Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT
  • Ethics in Smart Information Systems
  • User Experience Design (Nicos Kasenides)
  • Usable Security
  • Human Computer Interaction (HCI) (Andria Procopiou, Nicos Kasenides)
  • User Authentication and Security in Mixed Reality
  • Human Interaction Proofs
  • Intelligent User Interfaces
  • User Modelling and Quality of User Experience

• Artificial Intelligence applications (Andria Procopiou)
  • Intrusion Detection in IoT and Smart City networks using ML/DL techniques (also Christiana I. )
  • Hate Speech Detection and Analysis on Social Media
  • Sports Data Analytics: Analysis and Visualisation
  • Sports Injuries Risk Prediction and Prevention using ML/DL
  • Sports Performance Optimisation using ML/DL
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence
  • Penetration Testing using ML/DL approaches

• Social Computing and Social Technology (Andriani Piki)
  • Social Interaction Design
  • Social and Collaborative Technologies
  • Engagement with Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL)
  • Human Factors, emotional, cognitive, and behavioural engagement with social technologies
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), User Experience (UX) Design (Nicos Kasenides)
  • Contextual and mobile learning (mLearning) (Nicos Kasenides)
  • Informal learning, microlearning, games-based learning and educational gamification (Nicos Kasenides)
  • Smart and intelligent workplace learning environments
  • Inclusive and accessible educational technologies (Nicos Kasenides)
  • Digital wellbeing,
  • Social intelligence and wellbeing education
  • Community-based innovation and learning
  • Management of Information Systems (MIS)
  • Social impact of ICT
  • Inclusivity and gender equality in computing
  • Social and learning skills
  • Employability and transferable skills development in computing

• Immersive Technologies and Games (Louis Nisiotis)
  • eXtended Reality (XR)
    • Virtual Reality (VR)
    • Augmented Reality (AR)
    • Mixed Reality (MR)
  • Intelligent Reality
    • Cyber-Physical Social Systems
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Immersive Technologies
    • XR environments converging real and artificial agents

• Virtual Agents
• Multi-User 3D Virtual Worlds
• User Engagement, Human Computer Interaction, Collaboration, Sociability, Presence and Immersion in Intelligent Reality Environments

• • Games
    • Games
    • Games Research
    • Serious Games (Nicos Kasenides)
    • Gamification (Nicos Kasenides)
  • Computer Graphics
    • 3D Computer Graphics
    • Advanced Rendering Techniques
    • 3D Data Capture, Reconstruction, Visualisation

• Software Engineering (Nearchos Paspallis, Nicos Kasenides)
  • Mobile and Distributed Systems
    • Software Architectures
    • Software Patterns
  • Ubiquitous Computing
    • Context-awareness
    • Self-adaptation
  • Middleware
    • Pluggable architectures
    • Model-driven development
  • Online Games
    • Educational Games
    • Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG)
  • End-User Development
    • Assistive Technology
    • Gamification

• Data Management and Analytics (Panayiotis Andreou)
  • Data Management and Analytics in Systems and networks
    • Intelligent Systems
    • Adaptive Interactive Systems
    • Big Data and Analytics
    • Wireless Sensor Networks

• Computer Vision & Machine Learning (Christoforos Charalambous)
  • Video analytics
  • CCTV analysis
  • Crime forensics
  • Security and surveillance applications
  • Biometrics
    • Gait recognition
    • Gait verification
  • Behaviour analysis
  • Human motion analysis
    • Human pose analysis

• Gait Analysis for sports

(Marios Raspopoulos, Stelios Ioannou, Panagiota Nikolaou, and Josephina Antoniou, Nearchos Paspallis)

• Telecommunications and Mobile Technologies (Marios Raspopoulos, Christoforos Christoforou))
  • Radio Propagation/Radio Channel Modelling (Marios Raspopoulos, Christoforos Christoforou))

• Radio Propagation Measurements
• Deterministic and Empirical Channel Modelling
• Narrowband, UWB and mmWave Radio Propagation
• Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
• MIMO Technologies

• • Indoor Localization, Positioning and Navigation (Marios Raspopoulos, Nearchos Paspallis)
  • Modern Wireless Communication Systems (Marios Raspopoulos, Josephina Antoniou, Christoforos Christoforou))
    • Physical/link layer technology Enhancements
    • Physical and Network Mobility in wireless networks
    • Planning/dimensioning & adaptability for optimum energy efficiency, spectrum utilization, coverage, capacity user experience, quality, etc.
    • Heterogeneous and Multi-standard wireless Communication
  • Human Exposure to Electromagnetic Radiation (Marios Raspopoulos)
  • Internet of Things (IoT) (Marios Raspopoulos, Stelios Ioannou, Panagiota Nikolaou)
  • Multi-Disciplinary application of ICT

•  Renewable Energy Systems (Stelios Ioannou)
  • Electricity load profiles and load management
  • Weather parameters in Photovoltaic system design
  • Storage for Photovoltaic systems
  • Long term performance of Photovoltaic systems
  • ICT for Energy Management – Smart Grid: Management of Renewable Energy Sources (Monitoring/optimizing energy production, utilization and storage)

• Computer Engineering (Panagiota Nikolaou)

• Data analysis and modelling for performance, power and reliability prediction
• Performance analysis in real systems for ensuring sustainability
• Total cost of Ownership analysis and optimizations for Cloud and Edge computing
• Reliability analysis and prediction of critical infrastructures (e.g., embedded devices, UAVs) based on fault injection and analytical models
• Fault tolerance techniques
• Reliability prediction when operating at lower voltage
• Knobs exploration and tuning for servers that run micro-services

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (Stelios Ioannou, Marios Raspopoulos and Panagiota Nikolaou)
  • Computer Vision (Stelios Ioannou, Marios Raspopoulos and Panagiota Nikolaou)

(Demetres Christofides, Milto Hadjikyriakou, and Christina Savvidou)

• Combinatorics (Demetres Christofides)
  • Extremal graph theory
  • Extremal combinatorics
  • Random graphs
  • Probabilistic methods
  • Random Cayley graphs

• Probability & Statistics (Milto Hadjikyriakou)
  • Dependent Random Variables
  • Probability and Moment Inequalities
  • Asymptotic Laws
  • Stochastic Orders
  • Stochastic Ageing Orders
• Permutations and Patterns (Christina Savvidou)
  • Patterns in Words
  • Wilf Equivalence

(Kalypso Iordanou, Lilia Psalta, Militsa Nikiforou, and Vasiliki Christodoulou)

• Children’s problem behaviour (Militsa Nikiforou)
  • Bullying and victimization
  • Cyberbullying
  • Delinquency and Antisocial Behaviour
• Parenting (Militsa Nikiforou)
  • Parental Involvement
  • Attachment
  • Sources of parental Knowledge
  • Parental Style
  • Childhood and Adolescence
  • Parental burn-out and its consequences on parents and their children
• School Wide Positive Behavioural Interventions and Supports (Militsa Nikiforou)
  • Prosocial Behaviour in children in primary and elementary schools

• The influence of media in youth’s lives (Militsa Nikiforou)
  • Use of Facebook and its impact on emotional state and anxiety levels
  • Use of mobile phones and their impact on emotional state and anxiety levels

• Cognitive Development (Kalypso Iordanou)
  • Argumentation skills
  • Scientific Thinking
  • Cognitive and Metacognitive processes in Learning
  • Intellectual Values
  • Developing and Implementing Intervention Programmes
• Evaluating knowledge claims (Kalypso Iordanou)
  • Epistemic engagement with (mis)information on social media
  • Epistemic emotions and online information evaluation

• Beliefs (Kalypso Iordanou)
  • Epistemological Beliefs
  • Theory of Mind
  • Belief Change

• Face Processing (Lilia Psalta)
  • Studying face perception with Thatcher Illusion
  • Face perception of trustworthiness
  • Attentional biases in face recognition
  • The perception of Facial identity and expression
  • Processing Inverted faces – Face Inversion Effect
  • Configural and featural processing

• Implicit learning using computer tasks (Lilia Psalta)
  • Implicit measurement for the diagnosis of paedophilia
  • Assessments for implicit sexual associations
  • Implicit theories of child sexual exploitation
• Factors associated with ghosting intention and behaviour in adult relationships (Lilia Psalta)

• Sexual orientation and desire – Impact in relations (Lilia Psalta)
  • Attachment styles impact
• Relationship satisfaction (Lilia Psalta)
  • Sexual fluidity (categorical or fluid)
  • Shifts of sexuality during COVID-19 lockdown
  • Pornography and sexually explicit material in relationship satisfaction
• The impact of Grief (Lilia Psalta)
  • Anticipation of grief
  • Impact of Grief
  • Prolong grief disorder
  • Non-Death Grief (i.e., divorce, loss of job, health, economical statues)
• Forensic Psychology (Lilia Psalta and Vasiliki Christodoulou)
  • Ghosting
  • Online Sexual Exploitation
  • Cyber Violence
  • Psychopathic traits
  • Sex Offenders and victimisation
  • Pornography and Sextortion
  • Addiction (e.g., drug, internet)
  •  Corruption
  • Divorce mediation
  • Prejudice, violence and discrimination

• Prevention Science (Vasiliki Christodoulou)

• • Acceptance and Commitment Training (interventions for adolescents)
  • Acceptance and Commitment Training (interventions for young adults and organisations) (Panagiota Nikolaou)
  • Relational aggression and Interpersonal violence in young adults
  • Improving interpersonal communication in pre-release offenders
  • Intervening as a bystander in relational aggression and IPV
  • Personal values as motivators for pro-social and anti-social behaviour.

(Marcos Michaelides, Koulla Parpa, Efstathios Christodoulides and Konstantina Intziegianni)

• Exercise Physiology (Koulla Parpa and Marcos Michaelides)
  • Respiratory compensation
  • VO2 max
  • Gas changes and blood analysis
  • Heart rate Variability

• Exercise and Physical Activity (Koulla Parpa and Marcos Michaelides)
  • Changes in performance parameters before and after training
  • Fitness testing in special populations
  • Disease prevention and physical activity
  • Body composition changes and physical activity

• Injuries and Rehabilitation (Konstantina Intziegianni)
  • Sport related injuries, prevention and rehabilitation of overuse injuries
  • Post-surgery rehab
  • Musculoskeletal pain
  • Overuse syndromes
  • Diagnostic musculoskeletal ultrasound, electromyography, isokinetic dynamometer

• Physical Literacy, Sports and Social Sciences (Efstathios Christodoulides)
  • Physical literacy and culture cultivation
  • Role of sport and physical activity in contemporary society
  • Social issues, sports and physical activity
  • Physical activity and mental health in societal wellbeing.
  • Advances and future perspectives in Physical education