Professor Emeritus Georgios Kouroupetroglou holds a B.Sc. in Physics and a Ph.D. in Communications and Signal Processing. He is Vice President (Past President) of the Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe (AAATE), member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Academia Scientiarium et Artium Europaea), founder of the "Accessibility Unit" National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), and founder of the Speech and Accessibility Research Laboratory. He has served as Chairman of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, Director of Postgraduate Studies and PhD Studies, Director of the "Communication and Signal Processing Division", and Director of the M.Sc. Program in "Language Technology," NKUA. His research interests include Computer Accessibility and Voice User Interfaces, as part of the major domain of the Human–Computer Interaction. Professor Kouroupetroglou has actively participated in a significant number of European Union’s funded and National research projects. He has been a reviewer/evaluator and member of working groups/technical panels of various European Union projects/programs. He is the author of more than 180 scientific papers in journals/conference proceedings and numerous books and technical reports in the fields of his interest.
