Elias N. Houstis

E.N. Houstis is currently a full Professor of Computer Engineering and Communications department at University of Thessaly. Most of his academic career is associated with Purdue University. He has been a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Computational Science & Engineering Program of Purdue University. He has served as acting and associate Head of the Department of Computer Sciences for several years. He participated in several ESPRIT European projects in the area of information technologies. The most recent ones are VHF (An environment for a virtual hypermedia factory) and NANOS (Effective integration of fine-grain parallelism exploitation and multiprogramming). Houstis is a member of several research group in USA and Japan including ICER - The Indiana consortium for e-commerce research, NSF- Agent based modeling framework for scalable interdependent markets and organizations, Japan - NSF - Global grid computing and environments for science and technology, ICER- Indiana consortium on telemedicine. Houstis is in the editorial board of several journals. Houstis' current research interests are in the areas of portals, networking computing, enterprise systems, computational intelligence, computational finance, e-business, and e-learning. He has published several books and over 140 technical articles. He has participated in the organization of 10 conferences. He has supervised 19 Ph.D. students and tens of MS students. His research has been supported by the NSF, AFOSR, ARO, DARPA, DOE, ESPRIT, INTEL, IBM, AT&T, Kozo-Japan, Purdue University, Greek Research Foundation.

• EnvKids: Environmental Sustainability Training for Children through on-line Simulation, Exploration, and Collaboration, Comenius Action (Life Long Learning) project 2009-2011, coordinator CERETETH, partner UTH, Department of Computer Engineering (total project grant 300K) http://envkids.net
•  cMinds: Teaching Programming towards the Early Development of Analytical Structural and Critical Minds, Comenius Action (Life Long Learning) project 2010-2012, coordintor UTH, Department of Computer Engineering (total project grant 300K) http://cminds.org
• TALETE: Teaching Math through Innovative Tools, coordinaor University of Marconi, partner UTH, Department of Computer Engineering (total project grant 300K) http://project.unimarconi.it/talete/index.php/el/news/82-welcome-to-talete-project
• SEGAN: Serious Games Network, KA3 (Life Long Learning) project 2010-2013, coordinator Instituto Superior de Egnenharia do Porto, partner UTH, Department of Computer Engineering (total project grant 300K)
• Communication, Empowering, Integration, Experience for Senior Age Volunteers, Grunding Senior Mobility (Life Long Learning) project, coordinator Vytatutas Magnus University, partner UTH, Department of Computer Engineering (total project grant 50K approximately)
•  siLang: Serious Games for Situated Learning of Vehicular Languages addressing Work Needs, KA2 (Life Long Learning) project, 2012-2014, coordinator UTH, Department of Computer Engineering (total project grant 300K)
• iLike: Identifying the Logic structure of languages by use of new Interactive services, new diagnostic training methods for development of Key competences, and new Evaluation methods introducing assessment for learning practices, coordinator HiST, partner UTH, Department of Computer Engineering (total project grant 300K)