Josephina Antoniou, Associate Professor in Computing, University of Central Lancashire Cyprus

Josephina Antoniou is an Associate Professor of Computing and the Course Leader of the MSc Computing course at UCLan Cyprus, School of Sciences. She is also the Chair of the ACM-W (Association for Computing Machinery Women) Cyprus chapter since 2014 and fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK since 2015. She is a member of National Bioethics Committee in Cyprus since 2018, and in 2020 served as the Vice-President of the sub-committee for the Assessment of Biomedical Research. She was the research lead for the School of Sciences at the university’s Research and Innovation Committee (2015-2018) and currently an invited member of the university’s Ethics subcommittee. She has also been invited to serve on the Ethics Board of the H2020 RESPECT project (2021-24). She is the author of 3 books on Game Theoretic solutions for better Quality of Experience in communication networks, as well as the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, including recent articles on Ethics for Smart Information Systems. Her research interests span the areas of Communication Networks and Security and more recently Ethics and Responsible Research in the emerging socially dominated communication systems.

She is also a member of Interdisciplinary Science Promotion & Innovative Research Exploration Centre (InSPIRE) at UCLan Cyprus, since its inception. She has received her PhD in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus in 2010, her MSc in Advanced Computer Technologies also from the University of Cyprus in 2004, and her BA in Computer Science and Mathematics from Wartburg College, IA, USA in 2002. She has participated as the leader of tasks and work packages in completed FP6/FP7/H2020 projects SEACORN, B-BONE, C-MOBILE, C-CAST, Responsible Industry, COMPASS (2002-2017) as well as ongoing H2020 and Erasmus Plus projects such as SHERPA, IREEDER and GReFORM (2018 – ) and MENTORme (2020 – ). She has also been involved in COST IC1004: Cooperative Radio Communications for Green Smart Environments (2011-2015) and in FP7-PEOPLE Marie Curie – International Reintegration Grant: 3D UNDERWORLD (2011-2012). She is one of the organisers of the Cyprus National Penetration Testing/Ethical Hacking competition since 2015, and the ACM/ICPC Local Director for the Cyprus national qualifying coding competition for ACM ICPC. Recently, she has been awarded as a Senior Member of ACM and serves as a member of ACM’s Council for European Chapter Leaders.