Maria K. Michael is an Associate Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE), at the University of Cyprus. She holds a BSc and MSc in Computer Science, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences (specialization in Computer Engineering) from Southern Illinois University, USA. Prior to joining the University of Cyprus, she taught as a Lecturer at the ECE Department at Southern Illinois University, and as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, USA. Maria is also a co-founding academic member of the KIOS Center at the University of Cyprus since 2008. In 2016, she was part of the team that received the very prestigious H2020 TEAMING funding to elevate the KIOS Center to the KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence (KIOS CoE). She currently serves as the Director of Education and Training of the KIOS CoE. She is also the academic coordinator of the newly established MSc program in Intelligent Critical Infrastructure Systems, an innovative and internationally unique MSc program in the topic of monitoring, control and security of critical infrastructure systems (such as electric power systems and intelligent transportation systems), using ICT technologies focusing on intelligent methods and smart IoT-based cyber-physical systems. The program is a collaboration between the ECE Department and KIOS CoE at UCY, and Imperial College London, UK.

At the University of Cyprus, she leads research activities in the areas of dependability and security in embedded and IoT-enabled cyber-physical systems. She has extensive expertise in the areas of electronic design automation (CAD), test, diagnosis, reliability, fault tolerance and safety of large-scale integrated circuits and (safety-critical) embedded systems. Her current research focuses on hardware-enabled security and cyber-security in intelligent embedded systems and cyber-physical systems, optimization of performance and dependability of AI/ML edge intelligence, reliability and security of resource-constrained edge-based accelerators, with applications in intelligent critical infrastructure systems such as smart grids, UAVs, robotics and autonomous vehicles. She has more than 100 publications in refereed journals, book chapters, international conferences and other technical venues. She currently leads a team of fifteen researchers (post-doctoral, PhD, MSc/BSc level).

Her research has been funded by several local and international agencies and industry in Europe and the United States, such as EU FP7, EU H2020, Horizon Europe, EU COST, NSF, Intel Corp., and the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation. She has extensive experience in participating and managing research projects. She has participated in more than 25 funded research programs/grants, 7 with the role of project PI/co-PI and 6 with the role of PI/Co-PI for the UCY/KIOS participation. She currently leads the UCY/KIOS team (PI) in the H2020 SESAME project (Secure and Safe Multi-Robot Systems), focusing on dependability and security in collaborative UAVs for critical infrastructure inspection and emergency response. Furthermore, she currently leads the UCY/KIOS team (PI) in the EU European Defence Fund (EDF) project ACTING (Advance European platform and network for cybersecurity training exercises centers), focusing of the development and integration of cyberanges into the integrated platform of the KIOS Virtual City. She is also currently leading tasks for vulnerability analysis and mitigation techniques from cyber-security threats in the H2020 ELECTRON project (Resilient and Self-healed Electrical Power Nanogrid).

Maria has served as Associate Editor in special issues of the IEEE Transactions in Emerging Topics in Computing and of the ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems. She is a member of the IEEE, and also a reviewer for multiple conferences and journals. She has been serving regularly on the Steering, Organizing and Program Committees of numerous IEEE and ACM conferences, such as DATE, VTS, ETS, DFTS, VLSISoC, IOLTS, COINS, etc. She was Technical Program Chair for the 28^th DFTS’15, Technical Program Chair for the ISVLSI’22, upcoming Technical Program Chair for 29^th IEEE ETS’24, General Chair of the 29^th DFTS’16, and General Chair for the 22^nd ETS’17, as well as technical track/topic/tutorials/special sessions chair for, DATE, VTS, ETS, IOLTS, COINS, etc. She was the elected Steering Committee Vice-Chair of ETS for 2019-2022.

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