Dr. Maria Virvou

Associate Professor

Department of Informatics

University of Piraeus,

Greece

Maria Virvou is an Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus in Greece. She received a degree in Mathematics from the University of Athens, Greece, a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University College London, UK and a D.Phil. degree from the University of Sussex, UK (1993). Her D.Phil was funded by the Greek Foundation of State Scholarships.

She has been a member of Faculty at the Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus since 1994 when she was first elected as a lecturer. She was elected an Assistant Professor in 1999 and has been elected an Associate Professor since 2004. Her research interests are in the areas of user modelling , human computer interaction, knowledge-based software engineering, artificial intelligence in education, adaptive systems, e-commerce, interactive TV, affective computing. She is Director of the Software Engineering Lab at the Department of Informatics. She is also Director of the M.Sc. Conversion Course in “Informatics” offered by her Department. She teaches several undergraduate courses: Software Engineering, Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Human Computer Interaction, Computers in Education, Compilers, Computer Assisted Software Engineering Tools. She also teaches 6 post-graduate courses. She has supervised over 100 fourth year student project-dissertations. Moreover she has supervised 4 Ph.D. students who have successfully completed their respective Ph.D.s. She is currently supervising 7 Ph.D. students. She has published over 140 articles in international journals, books and conferences. A lot of these papers have been cited by many researchers and have been included in the short lists of the most downloaded papers of the respective journals where they have been published. She has served as the project leader and/or project member in over 10 R&D projects. Finally, she has served as a member of program committees of many international conferences and has been a reviewer in many conferences and journals. In the year 2008 she is the General co-chair in the international conferences: 1. Joint conference on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering (JCKBSE 2008). 2. KES Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services (KES IIMSS 2008). In the year 2003-2004 she received the first research award from the Research Center of her University as the member of faculty (among 200 colleagues of hers) having the highest number of research publications in high quality research journals.