Biography
My name is Michael Sioutis (Μιχαήλ Σιούτης in Greek) and, as of January 2023, I am a tenure-track Junior Professor of Hybrid Artificial Intelligence, affiliated with the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Montpellier, and the Laboratory of Computer Science, Robotics and Microelectronics of Montpellier. I will be working together with the Coconut team, and the rest of the lab, on the interplay between knowledge representation and machine learning, especially in the context of attaining spatiotemporally-informed AI frameworks.
Before returning to France, I was a Research Fellow (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in German) at the Faculty of Information Systems and Applied Computer Sciences of Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg in Germany from 2020 to 2022, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Computer Science of Aalto University in Finland during 2019, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Science and Technology of Örebro University in Sweden from May 2017 to December 2018.
In February 2017 I successfully defended my PhD Thesis, titled Algorithmic Contributions to Qualitative Constraint-based Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, and became a Doctor of Artois University in Computer Science. During my doctoral research I was advised by Professors Jean-François Condotta, Bertrand Mazure, and Yakoub Salhi.
Recent News
- I am a Senior Program Committee member of IJCAI 2023.
- I am a Program Committee member of KR 2023.
- I gave a tutorial on Hybrid AI Systems Grounded on Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Reasoning at MICAI 2022.
- I am a Program Committee member of WWW 2023.
- I am a Program Committee member of WSDM 2023.
- Tutorial on Hybrid AI Systems Grounded on Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Reasoning was offered by me and Z. Long at SETN 2022.
- I gave a keynote on Hybrid AI at the International Frontier Forum on Big Data Analysis and Intelligent Computing, organized by the School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Southwest Jiaotong University, China.
- Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Reasoning and Learning, co-organized by me, Z. Long, J. Stell, and J. Renz, was held at IJCAI-ECAI 2022.
More info at https://strl2022.github.io/. - I am a Program Committee member of FoIKS 2022.
- I was invited and participated in the Dagstuhl Seminar on Representing and Solving Spatial Problems.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Data Mining
- Linux System Engineering
- Logic Programming
- Semantic Web
PhD in Computer Science, 2017
Artois University
MSc in Computer Science, 2012
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
BSc in Computer Science, 2009
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens