Demetrios G Sampson, Associate Professor     ASK Director Associate Professor: Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus    sampson@unipi.gr

Demetrios G. Sampson holds a Diploma in Electrical Engineering (1989) from Demokritus University of Thrace and a Ph.D. in Multimedia Communications (1995) from University of Essex, UK. He is an Associate Professor on Technology-enhanced Learning at the Department of Digital Systems of the University of Piraeus. His main research interests are in the areas of Technology Enhanced Learning and Semantic and Context-Aware Knowledge Systems. He is the co-author of 211 publications in scientific books, journals and conferences with at least 659 known citations. (h-index 16). He has received four times Best Paper Award in International Conferences on Advanced Learning Technologies (August 2001, Madisson, USA), (August 2004, Joensuu, Finland), (July 2007, Niigata, Japan), (July 2009, Riga, Latvia). He is a Senior Member of IEEE and the elected Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Learning Technologies (LTTC). He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Educational Technology and Society Journal, an international journal with Impact Factor 1.067 (2009) on the Thomson Scientific 2009 Journal Citations Report. He is also a Member of Editorial Board of (16) International/ National Journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies and Guest Co-Editor in (15) Special Issues of International Journals. His participation in the organization of international/national scientific conferences involves: General Chair in (7) International Conferences, Program Committee Chair in (12) International Conferences, Memberships in (186) Program Committees in International Conferences and Memberships in (7) Program Committees in National Conferences. He has been a Keynote/ Invited Speaker in (16) International Conferences and (14) National Conferences.