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Vangelis Karkaletsis

Director and Chairman of the Board of the NCSR “Demokritos”. Representative of Greece to the European AI Board. Member of High Level Advisory Committee on AI to the Greek Prime Minister. Member of the National Commission for Bioethics & Technoethics.

Previously Director of the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications (IIT) at NCSR “Demokritos”, Member of the National Council for Research and Innovation (ESETEK) and Head of the Software & Knowledge Engineering Lab (SKEL The AI Lab) at IIT. Coordinator, scientific and technical manager of many European and national projects and organiser of numerous scientific international conferences, workshops and summer schools. Responsible for the Institute’s educational activities for more than 10 years, initiated the joint PhD scholarship programme with several Universities abroad, launched the new MSc in Data Science and MSc in Artificial Intelligence programmes for NCSR “Demokritos”, and set up the new educational programme for primary and secondary schools. Research interests are in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, content analysis, big data management, knowledge representation, human-machine interaction.

Work Experience

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2025-Today

Director and Chairman of the Board, NCSR “Demokritos”

2024 - Today

Representative of Greece to the European AI Board

2023 - Today

Member of the High Level Advisory Committee on AI to the Prime Minister

2021 - Today

Member of the National Commission for Bioethics and Technoethics

2019 - 2025

Director of the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, NCSR “Demokritos”

2019 - 2023

Member of the National Council for Research and Innovation (ESETEK)

2007 - Today

Research Director

2004 - 2019

Head of Software & Knowledge Engineering Laboratory (SKEL The AI Lab), Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, NCSR “Demokritos”

2016 - Today

Committee Member, Attica Technology Park “Lefkippos”

2010 – Today

Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

2008 – 2025

Responsible for Educational Activities, Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, NCSR “Demokritos”

2008 – 2013

Research Council member, NCSR “Demokritos”

2004 – 2010

Scientific Council member, Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications

2003 – 2007

Senior Researcher

2001 – Today

Organising and lecturing in post-graduate courses

1999 – 2003

Researcher, Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, NCSR “Demokritos”

1997 – 1999

Post-doctoral fellow, Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, NCSR “Demokritos”

1995 – 1997

Research Associate, Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, NCSR “Demokritos”

1995 – 1996

Military Service

1993 – 1995

Research Assistant, Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, NCSR “Demokritos”

1991 – 1994

Software developer mainly on data base applications. Worked also in an industrial research project (PABE 88ΒΕ-224) on information retrieval from textual bases for the company INFOGROUP

1990 – 1998

Teaching in a large number of Informatics seminars

1990 – 1993

Worked at the Informatics Institute of the Hellenic Productivity Center on the organization of Informatics seminars, preparation of feasibility studies for the computerization of public sector organizations, scientific management of national and international R&D projects, submission of proposals for funding

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Dr. Vangelis Karkaletsis
Director and Chairman of the Board, NCSR “Demokritos”

I am a graduate of the Department of Computer Engineering & Informatics, University of Patras (1989), with an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London (1990) and a PhD in knowledge representation and information extraction from the Informatics & Telecommunications Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (1995).

I got a post-doc scholarship at NCSR “Demokritos” (1997-99), and elected as Researcher for the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications (IIT) of NCSR “Demokritos” in 1999, Senior Researcher in 2003, and Research Director in 2007.