Kleanthis Thramboulidis received his MSc and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, in 1981 and 1989, respectively. He is a research and teaching staff Professor in software engineering in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at University of Patras, Greece, where he is leading the Software Engineering Group (http://seg.ece.upatras.gr/seg). Visiting professor Technische Universitat Munchen (2014). Visiting professor at Saarland university Germany (2010-2011). Visiting professor at TKK Finland (Aug 2009-Jan 2010). He teaches courses as Software Engineering, Programming Languages, Advanced Programming Techniques, Software Engineering for Embedded Systems, etc.

Kleanthis Thramboulidis has authored seven books on programming and modeling (in Greek) and contributed 3 book chapters. He has proposed a constructivism based approach to teach object oriented programming (Teaching OOP). He has been using the Object-Technology since 1989 and has successfully applied it with great success in many research and development projects, in many different application domains during his participation in European and National research and development projects (ESPRIT, ESSI, IST, etc.).

Kleanthis Thramboulidis has extensive engineering experience working as an analyst and design engineer in many different application domains. He is the designer of REDOM, an OO Language to define and on-line manipulate regulations in the resource (re)scheduling problem used in the airline domain, and CORFU, a framework for the unified development of distributed control systems (http://seg.ece.upatras.gr/corfu/).

He has proposed Model Integrated Mechatronics (MIM), a new paradigm for the model driven development of Mechatronic Manufacturing systems.

He has organized several Special Sessions in the domain of Factory automation and industrial informatics. Research areas cover:

• Software Engineering

• Industrial Engineering and Automation

• Cyber-physical systems

• Internet of Things

• Mechatronics

• model driven development, meta-modeling,

• service oriented architectures,

• component and service based development,

• distributed control and automation systems,

• Industrial Process Measurement and Control Applications

• embedded systems,

• semantic web

He is a member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, the Association for Computing Machinery, the IEEE IES Technical Committee on Factory Automation, and the IEC WG7-TC65-SC65B.

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