Dr Ioannis Karamitsos (B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.) has vast industry and research exposure over 30 years under a unique mix of academic research, industrial, and DOE lab R&D experience. Ioannis has worked both in the private and public sectors with European, Middle East and Chinese companies.

Since 2020 till present, Ioannis has been appointed as full-time Assistant Professor in Data Analytics at RIT University. From 2016 to 2020, Ioannis has joined the Department of Electrical Engineering as an Adjunct Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology Dubai. Ioannis is also a member of DSOA-Dubai Innovation Advisory Board and DTEC accelerator as a mentor.

His current research concerns telecommunication security systems and networks, post-quantum computing, cryptography, blockchain, AI, machine learning, next generation cloud networks, Big Data and Analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), Software defined networks (SDN), network modeling and performance analysis, Smart building services, and Smart Cities under the ICT and non-ICT convergence.

From 2010 to 2020, Ioannis was a Regional Digital Transformation Technologist- Blockchain Practice Lead at Orange Business Services in Dubai. As a blockchain practice lead, he collaborated with UAE public entities to conceptualize and implement blockchain and AI solutions, as well as defining a complete end-to-end digital enablement road-map.

He has conducted multiple digital innovation workshops, blockchain-smart contracts and POCs to identify digital disruption and associated business and technology transformation approaches. He was appointed as strategic advisor for developing the two smart cities in KSA, the Information Technology Complex (ITCC) and King Abdulaziz Financial Center (KAFD) and supported the strategy for developing a suite of smart city services.

As an avid learner, he also possesses executive certificates from Oxford Said Business School (Blockchain Strategy), MIT (Tackling the challenge of Big Data) and from Columbia Business School (Driving Strategic Impact Program).

Moreover, he is the author of a plethora of journal papers and book chapters; a member of IEEE since 1997, and he is serving as a reviewer in several engineering journals, and conferences.

Ioannis have several certifications such as: CBH, CISCO/CCNA Data Center, CEH v.9, ISO27002, PRINCE2, COBIT 5.0, IBM Certified Infrastructure Cloud Solution and IBM Cloud Computing Architecture, ITIL, TOGAF 9, and Scrum Master.

Last but not least, Ioannis holds a PhD in Computer Science from University of Sunderland, UK, a Master’s degree in Telematics Management from University of Danube Krems, Austria, and Bachelor’s degree (Laurea) in Electronic Engineering from University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy.

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