Elias Kyriakides is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus. He is a co-founder of the KIOS Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks at the University of Cyprus, where he is currently the Associate Director for Research. He has received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University in 2003. He is working in the areas of electric power systems and critical infrastructure systems with an emphasis on wide area monitoring and control, power system operations, and the integration of renewable energy sources.
Prof. Kyriakides has served as a Coordinator for 15 national and European projects and a partner in several others (total funding share over 3.3 million euro between 2006-2016). He has published two books (Springer, 2015 and Springer, 2016); six book chapters; over 140 refereed journal and international conference publications; and two patents. He has been elevated to a Senior Member in IEEE (2009) and to a Chartered Engineer in IET (2015). He has received several best paper awards and research awards. In May 2009, he was elected the Action Chair of the ESF-COST Action IC0806: Intelligent Monitoring, Security, and Control of Critical Infrastructure Systems (IntelliCIS).
Prof. Kyriakides has been invited to present a number of research talks and short courses at various utilities and universities internationally. He has served as an evaluator of proposals and an evaluator for several educational programs. He serves as the Associate Editor for the IEEE Systems Journal and the Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. Several of his students have obtained prizes for their research work in university and national competitions.