Department of Information Science

Fotis Liarokapis

Visiting Research Fellow

Photo of Dr Fotis Liarokapis Dr Fotis Liarokapis
Visiting Research Fellow
Room: A304
Information Science
School of Informatics
City University
London EC1V OHB

fotisl@soi.city.ac.uk
tel: +44 20 7040 3914
fax: +44 20 7040 8584

Short Biography

Fotis holds a DPhil in Computer Engineering at the University of Sussex, an MSc in Computer Graphics and Virtual Environments at the University of Hull and a BEng in Computer Systems Engineering at the University of Sussex. In September 2004, he joined the Department of Information Science at City University as a Research Fellow and Visiting Lecturer and worked on an EPSRC, Location and Timing KTN funded research project called LOCUS until April 2007. Before that he worked as a research officer at an FP5 European Union funded research project called ARCO. In April 2007, he joined the Department of Computing and the Digital Environment, Faculty of Engineering and Computing at Coventry University in the position of Senior Lecturer and the Serious Games Institute in the position of research fellow. Since January 2009 he is the director of Interactive Worlds Applied Research Group (iWARG). He is also a visiting lecturer at the Centre for VLSI and Computer Graphics, University of Sussex and a visiting research fellow at the giCentre, City University.

Fotis has contributed to more than 50 refereed publications and has more than 200 citations. He has been invited 34 times to become member of international conference committees and has chaired 7 sessions in 5 international conferences. Moreover, he has organised the 1st IEEE International Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-Games 2009) (publications chair), the STARS session of the 10th VAST International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (VAST 2009) (chair of state-of-the-art reports), the 2nd IEEE International Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-Games 2010) (steering committee) and he is organising the 3rd IEEE International Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-Games 2011) (general chair). Finally, he is on the editorial advisory board of The Open Virtual Reality Journal published by Bentham and he is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Interactive Worlds (IJIW) published by IBIMA. Finally, he is a member of IEEE, IET, ACM, BCS and Eurographics.


Research Interests (see also my research page)


Key Publications (see also my publications page)


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