George Konnis

CYNET

 

Dr. George Konnis is Managing Director at CYNET, the Cyprus research and academic network.

 

He received his Diploma in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 1992 and his Ph.D in Electrical & Computer Engineering in 1998 from in the same institution, where he worked as a Researcher, Research Scientist and Research Assistant Professor at the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems from 1992, 1998 and 2003 respectively.

 

During his career Dr. Konnis has been an associate with various IT companies such as IBM S.A, Datamed S.A. Healthcare Integrator, Delta-Singular Educational Services, in a variety of roles such as Senior Project Manager, Software Development Team Leader, Senior Healthcare It Consultant, Director of Training. George has extensive experience as a project manager and software team leader in national level public institutions’ supply, installation, pilot operation and maintenance projects. He has published 32 scientific papers in international journals and conferences. He has been active in numerous European R&D programmes in the field of Information Technology  and was the principal investigator in several European and national research programmes.