General Information about myself

Dr. Chairi Kiourt is Principal Researcher at the ATHENA - Research and Innovation Centre in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies - Xanthi's Division,  multimedia department since 2019. Also, as of 2018, Adjunct Faculty at the Computer Science Department, International Hellenic University, Greece, Teaching "Game Development" in the Mphil program Advanced Technologies in Informatics and Computers.

In 2007, he  received his BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the Electrical Engineering Department of the Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology, Greece. He also received an M.Sc. in System Engineering and Management in the specialty area: A.  Information and Communication Systems Management from the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. In 2017, received his PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering from the Hellenic Open University.  He has participated in several national and European research programs and co- authored to the writing of several scientific publications in international peer-reviewed journals and conferences with judges in the fields of collective artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning agents, virtual worlds, virtual museums and gamification.