Achievements
Awards & Honors
- Mammocheck (MDL/FU Spinoff) - Second Place CEO Alexandra Demetriadou, AmCham EU Youth Entrepreneurship Awards 2023
- Home Breast Cancer Examination (MammoCheck) - Selected in the 3rd Cycle of the Cyprus Seeds Program, 2023
- Digitalisation in Sustainable Cultural Tourism 3rd Prize - European Cultural Tourism Network, 2022
- Bronze Medal Cyprus Education Leaders Awards – Hellenic Bank of Cyprus 2019, “TechForGood”, applying technology for the good of society
- Best of MDM 2018, ``Decaying Telco Big Data with Data Postdiction'', 19th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'18), Aalborg, Denmark, June 26 - June 28, 2018 (Geinformatica - Springer - journal invitation).
- Microsoft Imagine Cup National Award (Category: Innovation), "Autonomous Research & Guard Oversea System (ARGOS)", 2016.
- Microsoft National Hackathon Award, "Emotion Detection Smartphone Application", 2016.
- Microsoft Imagine Cup National Award (Category: World Citizenship), "Smart Ecological Cultivation System", 2015.
- Microsoft National Hackathon Award, "Education POI smartphone application", 2012.
- Awarded the Research Endowment Fund of Electronic Systems Engineering Department, University of Essex, 2006:
- for remarkable achievements in first year PhD studies , 2006-2008.
- Postgraduate Research Scholarship awarded by the Electronic Systems Engineering Department, University of Essex, 2005-2008.
- PhD Student Scholarship awarded by the University of Essex, 2005-2008.
- Studentship awarded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Committee Fund (EPSRC), 2005-2008.
Academic Performance
- MSc with Distinction in Engineering:
- awarded by the Electronic Systems Engineering Department, University of Essex, 2005.
- overall weight 74.6%, ranked in top 3 out of around 65 MSc students.
- BSc with Honors in Engineering:
- awarded by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2004.
- ranked 1st out of around 45 BSc students.
- Reduction of fees awarded by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics:
- BSc 8th Semester, January-June, 2004.
- BSc 7th Semester, September-December, 2003.
- BSc 6th Semester, January-June, 2003.
- Certificate of Merit awarded by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics:
- BSc Fourth (Final) Year 2004.
- BSc Third Year 2004.
- Student of the year awarded by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics:
- BSc Fourth (Final) Year 2004.
- BSc Third Year 2003.
Civil Awards
- Awarded the position of second-lieutenant by the Cyprus National Guard, 2002.
- Awarded the position of army cadet candidate by the Tank Military School. Avlona, Greece:
- ranked 5th out of around 60 candidates, December 2000.
Title:
Funding Body:
AmCham EU Youth Entrepreneurship Awards
Venue:
AmCham EU
Date:
6/20/2023
Team:
Marios Pafitis
Description:
2023, Second Place – Mammocheck (MDL/FU Spinoff) CEO Alexandra Demetriadou
Title:
European Cultural Tourism Network
Funding Body:
Venue:
European Cultural Tourism Network
Date:
2/7/2023
Team:
Christoforos Kronis
Description:
Digitalisation in Sustainable Cultural Tourism
Title:
DeliverIt
Funding Body:
Cyprus Digital Championship
Venue:
Lions
Date:
1/12/2022
Team:
Elias Kokkinos
Description:
A crowdsourcing smartphone application that connects users/drivers and enterprises for easy and instant delivery.
Title:
Winner - StudentLife Award 2016
Funding Body:
Hellenic Bank StudentLife Awards 2016
Venue:
Online
Date:
1/11/2017
Team:
Iasonas Iasonos
Description:
Ask-4-Alcocheck is an interactive-informative application developed to create awareness and personal responsibility among people regarding drinking and driving.
Title:
National Winner - Microsoft Imagine Cup '16
Funding Body:
Microsoft Imagine Cup - National Finals
Venue:
European University
Date:
4/19/2016
Team:
Iasonas Iasonos
Description:
A.R.G.O.S. is initially developed to support coast guard in search and rescue missions during, for example, the migration crisis, its innovation and technological composition provides opportunities for several other applications.
Title:
Top 10-teams Worldwide - Imagine Cup World Finals 2015 (Category: World Citizenship)
Funding Body:
Imagine Cup World Finals
Venue:
Seattle, USA
Date:
7/20/2015
Team:
Theodoros Achas
Iasonas Iasonos
Christoforos Kronis
Description:
SECS is an autonomous smart and ecological cultivation system that is developed for managing and controlling cultivation, automatically (and remotely through a smartphone application), in real time.
Title:
National Winner - Microsoft Imagine Cup 2015 (Category: World Citizenship)
Funding Body:
Microsoft Imagine Cup - National Finals
Venue:
University of Nicosia
Date:
4/21/2015
Team:
Theodoros Achas
Iasonas Iasonos
Christoforos Kronis
Description:
SECS is an autonomous smart and ecological cultivation system that is developed for managing and controlling cultivation, automatically (and remotely through a smartphone application), in real time.
Title:
National Winner - Microsoft Hackathon '12
Funding Body:
Microsoft Hackathon Competition
Venue:
University of Cyprus
Date:
12/20/2012
Team:
Konstantinos Marouchos
Christoforos Kronis
Description:
An easy to use app that will help you navigate and educate your self through augmented reality.
Title:
Award for Voluntary Offering
Funding Body:
Pancyprian Volunteerism Contest
Venue:
Pancyprian Volunteerism Coordinative Council
Date:
10/12/2014
Team:
Iasonas Iasonos
Description:
Ask-4-Alcocheck is an interactive-informative application developed to create awareness and personal responsibility among people regarding drinking and driving.
Title:
New & Rising Game
Funding Body:
Not Available
Venue:
Windows Store
Date:
4/20/2013
Team:
Panagiotis Zinieris
Description:
Mobikids Park is an exciting, fun, easy-to-use and educational game with nice animations and with major focus on satisfying the kids-experience. Allow kids to learn and play free games (fully functional) using one single app.
Title:
Best Migrated from Windows Phone
Funding Body:
Microsoft Windows 8.1 Developers Online Contest
Venue:
Windows Store
Date:
12/3/2013
Team:
Christoforos Kronis
Konstantinos Marouchos
Description:
Cyprus - Greece Radio is a free, fully-functional application for listening to various radio stations in real time via internet streaming.
Title:
Top free Music and Audio application
Funding Body:
Not Available
Venue:
Google Play store
Date:
10/11/2012
Team:
Christoforos Kronis
Konstantinos Marouchos
Description:
Cyprus - Greece Radio is a free, fully-functional application for listening to various radio stations in real time via internet streaming.