Bio

Kyriakos Kyriakou (BSc & MSc, Computer Science) is a Research Associate at the Fairness and Ethics in AI – Human Interaction Multidisciplinary Research Group (fAIre) (formerly known as Transparency in Algorithms – TAG) of the CYENS Centre of Excellence (formerly known as RISE) in Cyprus. He studied Computer Science at the University of Cyprus, with a specialization in Software Engineering, acquiring both a BSc and an MSc degree. His main research area revolves around Algorithmic Transparency, Fairness, Accountability, and Explainability. Mr. Kyriakou has been involved in a number of development/startup projects, while at the same time having experience working in an academic research environment, primarily on Erasmus+ projects. In addition, he has participated regularly in hackathons and business idea competitions, from some of which he was awarded. He has been also involved in innovation and entrepreneurship by co-founding several startups (BadFive.com, and Meera Ltd), while in the meantime some of his proposed business ideas got accepted to receive funding and participated in incubation and accelerator programs in Cyprus. Recently, he became an alumnus of the Conception X programme (Ph.D. deeptech ventures) in the UK, where he now serves as an ambassador. As a last highlight, he has been actively involved in various volunteering activities and networked with several key organizations in Cyprus. Kyriakos has been accepted for the CYENS Doctoral Training Program, where he is currently pursuing a Ph.D. through the Open University of Cyprus. His Ph.D. topic focuses on “Facilitating Human Agency and Oversight in Algorithmic Processes” under the thematic area “Towards Trustworthy AI: Human Oversight of Algorithms”.

Education

Open University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
Ph.D., Towards Trustworthy AI: Human Oversight of Algorithms;
Facilitating Human Agency and Oversight in Algorithmic Processes

2021 – today

University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
MSc in Computer Science

2017 – 2019

University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
BSc in Computer Science
Specialization in Software Engineering

2013 – 2017

Trainings

Conception X, London, United Kingdom
Ph.D. Deeptech Venture Programme
Cohort 6 Alumni

Visit Conception X website

2023

Languages

Greek – speak fluently, read and write with high proficiency

English – speak, read and write with high proficiency

French – speak, read and write with basic competence

Work Experience

Transparency in Algorithms Group (TAG)
CYENS Centre of Excellence (formerly known as RISE)
Research Associate         

My main priorities consist of the execution of research work, publications and proposal-writing for research funding. In addition, I’m involved with the preparation of project reports and deliverables, software development, and travel abroad for dissemination activities, presentations and talks.

Visit CYENS CoE website

2018 – today

Conception X, London, United Kingdom
CX Ambassador Programme

Provide guidance to Ph.D. students – who are willing to turn their doctoral work into a deeptech venture – to apply to the Conception X programme.

Visit Conception X website

2023 – today

IDEA Incubator-Accelerator, Bank of Cyprus
Mentor

Provide consultation to the startups in IDEA on a voluntary basis as a mentor for approximately one or more meetings per month.

Visit Mentor Profile

2020 – today

Software Engineering and Internet Technologies Laboratory (SEIT Lab)
Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus
Special Scientist – Researcher and Developer

I participated in the preparation of project reports and deliverables, research proposals for funding, software development, and travel abroad for project meetings, presentations and dissemination activities. I worked on several EU-funded research and Erasmus+ projects like DiFens, EPUM, IDEA, a research project of the JUSTICE program called INFORM and another European research project called CyberSafety. In addition, I was involved in project coordination activities.

Visit SEIT Lab website

2017 – 2018

Internship at Opium Works
Web Developer Student Intern

Received training as a web-developer through a specific training program with online courses. Then, I worked for a while as web-developer on several projects for the rest of the internship program.

Visit Opium Works website

2016

Internship at SEIT Lab
Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus
Research Intern Student

I developed a tool, called LicenseCrawler, for an open-source software licensing research project of the Software Engineering and Internet Technologies Laboratory (SEIT Lab) in the Computer Science Department at University of Cyprus. This work was done during a summer research internship program. It’s a crawler that indicates and collects, important and basic information for projects that belong to GitHub users, by considering their community rating. LicenseCrawler supports a bigger project for a license recommendation website for open-source code/software, called findosslicense. The whole internship program was supervised by the Associate Professor Georgia M. Kapitsaki.

Visit Lisence Crawler GitHub Repository Visit FindOssLicense Project

2016

Internship at EAC – Electrical Authority Cyprus
Student Intern

Passed from several positions and saw how the data flows into the organization. I’ve also provided IT help when needed.

2015