Valantis Zervos

Work with the other student representatives chosen from INGENIUM universities on discussing regulations, projects, and other activities involving students and the partner universities.

Responsibilities: Corrected and designed assignments, conducted office hours, presented tutorials, organized and managed course (along with Professor), and course platforms for the courses:

• CS252: Object-Oriented Programming (Fall 2023, 2024, 2025) [∼360 students]
• CS109: English II (Spring 2024, 2025) [∼200 students]
• CS209: English IV (Spring 2024, 2025) [∼220 students]

Previously: Undergraduate Fellow, until July 2025

• Contributed to various research projects as well as an industrial project
• Developed tools for:
  • Text extraction from PDF files.
  • Bibliographic analysis on .bib files.
  • Geographic data visualization on a live map platform.
  This work was conducted using Java, PDFBox, ReactJS, MaterialUI, and ArcGIS in the context of a research project for FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), running from November 2023 to September 2024.
• Researched the impact of Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models (LLMs) on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.
• And more...

Designed and implemented the webpage of the Dancing Group ”Alios” Corfu using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript by utilizing AI tools. Accessible via www.alios-corfu.com

Designed and implemented a Geographical Information System (GIS) platform as an extension of the work "Analysis of the 'focus' and 'sentiment' of restoration interventions in the aquatic domain" which takes as input a data file (.mra file) from the tool presented in the paper and shows its contents on a live map. Implemented using ReactJS, MaterialUI and ArcGis.

Designed and implemented a statistics component with data visualization (bars, pies) using ReactJS and MaterialUI. Developed a barcode generation service using Java for PDF outputs.

Analyzed and designed a platform for hosting E-Sports events and their content, as a CS351: Information Systems Analysis and Design course project. The platform was partially - as requested - implemented, and fully evaluated. The implementation was made using React-TS, Docker, HTML5/CSS, and Material-UI. The evaluation was made using W3 Validator, Wave, Lighthouse and Heuristics.

Implemented an information retrieval system that can index and answer queries on a corpus of 2.5GB consisting of medical research articles, as a CS463: Information Retrieval Systems course team project. The system was also evaluated using various metrics. The implementation was made using Java and Python.

Created a web platform for the Fire Department allowing incident submission & management, user sessions, communication, and more, using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, OpenLayers Maps, Bootstrap, JQuery, and other libraries as a CS359: Web Development course project.

Created a compiler for the Alpha programming language using C, Flex, and Bison. The compiler compiled Alpha code to execute on an Alpha Virtual Machine.

Researched, created, and presented the business plan Triangle during a public pitch event. Ranked second place in a competitive evaluation among 15+ other projects.

Built a complete rental management system for businesses using Java and SQL. The system supported client registration, vehicle tracking, and payment management.

Developed a 2D multiplayer strategy game in Java, featuring various game modes and intuitive user controls.

Developed and presented ApolloMed, an AI model designed to provide medical recommendations to healthcare stakeholders, within the Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) on Ethical AI Development. Contributed to the full project dossier, focusing on the system’s design, ethical considerations, and real-world applicability. The project was awarded 1st place among 4 teams in the Ethical AI Development BIP and ranked in the Top 3 among the 12 teams across all three BIPs.

Attended a workshop on the practical application of Generative AI (GenAI) tools in modern professional domains, including project management, customer experience, and marketing & sales. Acquired practical guidance on leveraging GenAI for academic tasks and early career development.

Attended the Summer School on CIDOC CRM (July 2025, FORTH-ICS, Heraklion, Crete), part of the Digital Humanities programme. Received training on conceptual modeling, interoperability, and applications of the CIDOC CRM ontology. Participated in hands-on sessions on data transformation and knowledge graph construction. Explored the use of CIDOC CRM in cultural heritage documentation and AI-supported workflows.

School on entrepreneurial skills, design thinking, multicultural teamwork, and communication skills by solving real-life stakeholders' challenges and cases. The main project was to solve a real-life case problem provided by the stakeholder and develop and present it as a business idea in a 10-minute pitch.

Assistant/Guide at FORTH

Tech Support at Computer Science Department, University of Crete

Assistant/Guide at Computer Science Department, University of Crete

Tech Support at Mathematics and Applied Mathematics Department (2025, 2023), and Chemistry Department (2024), University of Crete

• Professor at University of Crete
• Affiliated Researcher at ICS-FORTH
• Deputy Chair at Computer Science Department, University of Crete

• Associate Professor at University of Crete
• Collaborating Researcher at ICS-FORTH
• Chair at Computer Science Department, University of Crete

Professor at University of Crete

Senior Research Engineer and Technical Head of CCI at ICS-FORTH

Software Engineer at ICS-FORTH

• Career Counsellor at University of Crete
• Co-Founder at Youth Crete (Region's of Crete NGO)