Christos Kyrkou
Research Lecturer at KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence
Nicosia, Cyprus
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Top SchoolChristos Kyrkou is a Research Lecturer at the KIOS Research & Innovation Center with a PhD in Computer Engineering and roughly a decade of experience building real-time computer vision and deep learning systems. He has authored over 50 peer‑reviewed publications, won two best paper awards, and has a strong track record in EU and national R&D projects focused on efficient neural architectures and embedded vision. His work spans hardware-aware acceleration (FPGAs, custom accelerators) to applied solutions for emergency management, autonomous vehicles and drones, reflecting both theoretical and practical strengths. He also taught advanced computer vision at the University of Cyprus and holds a Udacity Self‑Driving Car Nanodegree plus industry deep learning certificates, underscoring a commitment to translating research into deployable systems. An understated strength is his long continuity within KIOS, progressing from graduate researcher to lecturer, which gives him deep institutional and project-level experience rare in academic engineers.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Engineering at University of CyprusCertificate, Fundamentals of AI at the Edge, Certificate, Fundamentals of AI at the Edge at UdacityCertificate, Deep Learning, Certificate, Deep Learning at NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute
Greek, English
Github Skills (35)
yolov510
pytorch10
ios10
machine-learning10
onnx10
coreml10
yolov810
deep-learning10
object-detection10
tflite10
ultralytics10
yolov410
computer-vision9
image-classification9
pose-estimation9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ckyrkou/CNN_Car_Detector
Oct 2018 - Sep 2021
Training a deep-learning classifier for aerial top view detection of vehicles.
Contributions:53 commits, 53 pushes in 2 years 11 months
ckyrkou/Hardware_Design_Cores
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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