Short Biography

Ilias Tachmazidis is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Huddersfield, UK and a member of Centre for Autonomous and Intelligent Systems as well as Centre of Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health. His research interests fall in: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Semantic Web, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Artificial Intelligence in Law, High performance Computing and Distributed Computing.

He graduated from the University of Crete, Greece receiving both MSc and BSc in 2012 and 2010, respectively. As a PhD Candidate at the University of Huddersfield, UK he investigated whether, how and to what extent large-scale reasoning can be achieved through mass parallelization. Upon graduation in 2015, he took up a position of Research Fellow and was promoted to Senior Research Fellow in 2019. He took up an academic position of Senior Lecturer in 2020.