Dr. Karantzalos is a Professor at the National Technical University of Athens, joining the Remote Sensing Laboratory. He is also occasionally affiliated with the Institute of Communications and Computer Systems (ICCS) and the Athena Research Center. He was a member of the Board of Directors in the Hellenic Space Center, now Secretary-General at the Ministry of Digital Governance, coordinating the implementation of the Greek National Space Program.
Konstantinos Karantzalos received his engineering diploma from the National Technical University of Athens (2000) and his PhD (NTUA) in collaboration with Ecole Nationale de Ponts et Chaussees (CERTIS/Imagine, ENPC, France). His PhD thesis was entitled "Automatic feature extraction from aerial and satellite imagery with computer vision techniques". In 2007, he joined the Department of Applied Mathematics at Ecole Centrale de Paris (France) as a postdoctoral researcher working with Prof. Nikos Paragios (Center for Visual Computing & GALEN group ECP/Inria at the Saclay).
His teaching and research interests include earth observation and remote sensing, geospatial big data and analytics, computer vision and machine learning, enviromental monitoring and precision agriculture. He has numerous publications in international journals and conferences and a number of awards and honors for his research contributions.
Research/Work experience: 20+ years of research experience, involved with 30+ EU and national excellence/competitive research projects as a principal investigator and as a researcher towards the design, development and validation of state-of-the-art methodologies and cutting-edge technology in Geomatics, Earth Observation and Computer Vision; He was the CTO at Brainomix Ltd. (2009-2012); Curently coaching/mentoring a couple of Greek Start-ups; He worked as a Survey Engineer at the construction of the New Athens International Airport, “El. Venizelos” for the Joint Venture J&P Hellas and Helliniki Texnodomiki at the “Extension of Taxiway C and Olympic Aviation Home Base Apron” (2000-2002).
Professional Activities: Dr. Karantzalos serves as a Scientific/Program Committee Member in international conferences and as a reviewer in top rank international journals (e.g., Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE; Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE; Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier; Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Elsevier; Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, IEEE; International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IEEE). Dr. Karantzalos serves as Evaluator/ Panel Member for EU and national research programmes and currently Chairing the ISPRS Commision III, WG III/2 on Spectral and Thermal Data Processing and Analytics. He is the (Greek) Head of Delegation at the European Space Agency (ESA).
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Projects (selected):
2024 - EdgeSpAIce : Unleashing AI potential to foster space accessibility and novel Earth Observation services creation, Demonstrating the potential of edge-AI technology onboard satellites, Horizon Europe
2022 - BiCUBES : Analysis-Ready Geospatial Big Data Cubes and Cloud-based Analytics for Monitoring Efficiently our Land & Water, Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation
2021 - RAMONES: Radioactivity Monitoring in Ocean Ecosystems, FET-H2020
2021 - iToBoS: Intelligent Total Body Scanner for Early Detection of Melanoma, H2020
2021 - SANTORY : Santorini’s Seafloor Volcanic Observatory, Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation
2021 - AGRO4+ : Holistic Approach to Agriculture 4.0 for New Farmers, Supporting Regional Εxcellence, ESIF-PA
2020 - eOSD : An Intelligent Early-Warning Oil Spill Detection and Prediction System for the Arabian Gulf and the Red Sea, KAUST
2020 - GERANIIUM: Generative Artificial Intelligence for High Performing Inversion Models, ESA
