Ilan Englard is a prominent project manager and consultant in the semiconductor industry with over 26 years of experience.

Theo is an Associate Professor and the Department Chair at the ECE Dept at UCY and KIOS CoE. His research is focused on intelligent embedded systems, hardware acceleration of neural inference and tinyML.

Dr. ing. Merlijn Sebrechts is a senior researcher at imec and teaches at Ghent University in Belgium. He leads research on secure and robust systems in the cloud and on devices.

Vasilis Kapinas leads Satellite Communications Engineering in Research and Innovation at Hellas Sat. He holds a PhD in Wireless Communications from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Dr. Georgios Ellinas is a Professor of ECE at the University of Cyprus and Faculty Member at KIOS CoE. He holds 30 patents and has attracted over €40M in funding.

Charalampos Theodorou holds a BSc from the University of Cyprus and an MSc from the University of Twente. He has over five years of research experience across Erasmus+ and HORIZON projects.

Dr. Christiana Panayi is a quantum-secure communications specialist and space cybersecurity expert. She has worked on more than seven European-funded projects across ESA, Horizon Europe, and the Digital Europe Programme.

Lazaros Lazarou is a PhD Student at the KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence, University of Cyprus. His research focuses on Post-Quantum Cryptography and Cyber-Physical Systems.

Alexandros Papadopoulos is an Electrical and Computer Engineer and Research Assistant at CERTH since 2020, near completing his PhD on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces.

Angelos Tsanaktsidis is a researcher at the KIOS CoE working on post-quantum cryptography for resource-constrained embedded systems. He designed a cross-architecture PQC benchmarking framework under Zephyr RTOS.

Antonis Savva is a Research Associate at KIOS CoE. His research focuses on trustworthy AI systems, 3D semantic segmentation of LiDAR data, and resilient edge computing.

Ramsundar Kandasamy is a connectivity expert with over 18 years of experience in telecommunications, automotive systems, and software-driven innovation at Valeo and Ericsson.

Prof. Ioannis Krikidis (IEEE Fellow) is a Professor of ECE at the University of Cyprus. He holds an ERC Consolidator Grant and was named a Highly Cited Researcher (2017–2021).

Maria Charalambous is a Manager in Digital and Technology Consulting at KPMG Cyprus, with over 16 years of experience in Quality Assurance, fintech systems, and regulated digital environments.

Dr. Marios Thoma is a retired Signals Colonel with a PhD from the University of Cyprus (2018). He is an IEEE Senior Member and Director of Cyberecocul Global Services.

Rafaella Elia is a Research Associate at KIOS CoE, holding a PhD in Electrical Engineering (2024). Her research focuses on applied machine learning and data-driven signal analysis.

Thomas Eisenbarth is a Professor of IT Security and Director of the Institute of IT Security at the University of Lübeck. He received his PhD from Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

Guillaume Fumaroli is a senior cryptography and cybersecurity expert with over 20 years of experience spanning defence, automotive, finance, and embedded systems.

George Constantinou is a Senior Manager at KPMG Cyprus with expertise in project management, QA, testing strategy, Agile transformation, and software delivery across EMEA, APAC, and NALA.

Gerasimos Ntouskas leads Technology Consulting at KPMG Cyprus, covering Data and AI, Cyber and Digital Trust, and Digital Transformation. With 25 years of experience, he bridges industry and academia.

Adrian Marotzke completed his PhD in 2025 at Hamburg University of Technology in collaboration with NXP, focusing on secure hardware implementations of post-quantum cryptography.

Dr. Konstantinos Ntougias holds a PhD from Aalborg University. His research focuses on optimization of intelligent reconfigurable and multi-antenna systems and physical-layer security.

Ruben Bokobza is a Senior Solution System Security Architect at NVIDIA, currently leading the effort for Post-Quantum Cryptography implementation at NVIDIA.

Andrés Felipe Valencia Patiño is a researcher and engineer at CSEM. He holds a PhD specialising in lattice-based cryptography and side-channel analysis.

Damian Vizár is a cryptographer and cybersecurity expert specialising in embedded applications and IoT security. After his PhD at EPFL, he joined CSEM.