NEWS
Archimedes Workshop on the Foundations of Modern AI
22 July 2024
The Archimedes Research Unit on Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Algorithms proudly organized the Workshop on the Foundations of Modern AI at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, on July 3-4, 2024. This prestigious event gathered leading experts and researchers from diverse fields such as Statistical and Computational Learning Theory, Optimization, Algorithmic Game Theory, and Approximation and Online Algorithms.
Visit of Deputy Minister Zoe Rapti to Archimedes and the Athena Research Center Facilities
19 July 2024
The appointed new Deputy Minister for Development, Ms. Zoe Rapti, visited on Thursday, July 4, 2024, the Athena Research Center in Athens. The President of Athena, Professor Ioannis Emiris, and Directors and Representatives of the Institutes and Units of Athena received Deputy Minister Zoe Rapti at the entrance of the General Secretariat of Research and Technology. Some of the facilities available at Athena were shown to her, and she briefly interacted with some researchers and staff.
Archimedes Celebrates Professor Ananiadou's role in groundbreaking AI-Driven Cardiovascular Initiative
16 July 2024
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has awarded £4 million to support world-class cardiovascular research at The University of Manchester over the next five years, with the university matching this funding to bring the total investment to £8 million. Archimedes is proud to announce that one of our lead researchers, Professor Sophia Ananiadou of Manchester University, is co-leading this transformative project.
Research on Machine Unlearning Wins Best Paper Award at European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference 2024
2 July 2024
Members of the Archimedes AI and Data Science Research Hub at the Athena Research Center received the Best Paper Award at the European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference (EICC) 2024 for their paper “ SFTC: Machine Unlearning via Selective Fine-Tuning and Targeted Confusion ” published in the ACM Digital Library.
The research team included Stathis Karypidis (Archimedes PhD scholar) and Nikos Komodakis (Assistant Professor, University of Crete, and Lead Researcher at Archimedes) in collaboration with Vasilis Perifanis (PhD scholar from Democritus University of Thrace and Adjunct researcher at Athena RC) and Pavlos Ephraimidis (Professor at Democritus University of Thrace, Greece and collaborating faculty member at Athena RC).
