Athanasios Tsadiras is Professor of the School of Economics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)  and Director of the Laboratory “Applications of Informatics in Economic Sciences” (http://infolab.econ.auth.gr). He has been the director of the Department of Applied Economics of the School of Economics, AUTH.

His scientific interests include Artificial Intelligence, Decision Support Systems, Supply Chain, Machine Learning, Artificial Neural Networks as well as Data Mining from Economic Data.

He received his PhD from the School of Applied Informatics of the University of Macedonia in 1997 with his thesis title  to be “Artificial Intelligence – Fuzzy Cognitive Representations and Certainty Neurons”. He was awarded, with honors, the postgraduate title M.Sc. in Applied Artificial Intelligence in 1992 from the University of Aberdeen, UK.

He has participated or coordinated more than 30 research and development projects in Greece and Europe. He has published over 80 scientific articles in international journals, conferences and book chapters and has authored 4 books. According to Google Scholar it has over 1300 references (h-index=18). He participated in the organizing committee of 5 conferences and in the scientific committee of more than 50 international conferences.

Education

• 2000-2002 Post-doctorate in Decision Support Systems, Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia.
• 1992-1997 PhD in Artificial Intelligence, School of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia.
• 1991-1992 Sc. Applied Artificial Intelligence, Computing Science Dept., Aberdeen Univ., Scotland, UK
• 1987-1991 Degree in Physics, School of Physics, AUTH.