Elena Michael

Born in Nicosia Cyprus. Studied in the USA on Fulbright/CASP scholarship. Graduated from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg VIRGINA with BBA (Accounting). Got an MA from Florida State University. Worked for a year in Washington DC as Legislative Assistant at the office of Congressman Peter Visclosky. Returned to Cyprus in 1999. Worked for Global Capital Securities and Financial Services Ltd as a Corporate Finance Advisor for 8 years. Then joint Laiki Bank Group where I worked as a Credit Officer at Laiki Factors for 6 years. Left in summer of 2013. Currently supporting Junior Achievement, an organization that promotes entrepreneurial skills for children through learning by doing programs.

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Elena Michael With FWC March 2014-today Title Software Developer Key Project(s) Key Interests Degree(s) BSc (4 years) Msc (2 years) Filed(s) of study Computer Science Computer Science University(ies) \The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg Virginia USA Florida State University

Ms. Elena Michael joined the Future Worlds Center team in March 2014. Her background is in the field of Accounting and Finance where she word as a Corporate Finance Advisor for seven years and as a Credit Officer for six years. She Neuroscience and Technology Institute]], she joined the newly established IT Team as an intern for a period of the first six months supported by the Human Resource Development Authority HRD Internship Scheme recently created by the Cyprus Government. Her current tasks focus on developing requirements and specifications for new innovative educational Apps, while at the same time supervises tasks of members of the IT team to ensure timely completion of projects. Chrystalla is also involved in drafting new business models for inter-organisational innovations.

Biography

Chrystalla holds an MSc Degree in Computer Science from University of Cyprus (2013) and a BSc Degree in Computer Science from University of Nicosia (2011). Chrystalla has a broad knowledge in software development. Her current interest focuses in researching new technologies and applications while at the same time extending her knowledge in the field of IT Business Analysis.

Major Projects

• MSc Dissertation, “Face and Emotion Recognition System based on SURF and PCA algorithms”, University of Cyprus, 2013. Supervisor: Dr Constantinos Pattichis
• Image Processing, “Automatic Panoramic Image Stitching using Invariant Features”, University of Cyprus, 2012
• Video Processing, “Background Subtraction from Video using Mixture of Gaussian”, University of Cyprus, 2012
• Video Processing, “MPEG 4 Encoding and Decoding”, University of Cyprus, 2011
• BSc Final Year Project, “Design and Implementation of a Software tool for Sustainable Development Assessment”, University of Nicosia, 2011. Supervisor: Dr Ioanna Dionysiou

Journal Articles

• Ioanna Dionysiou, Philippos Pouyioutas, Harald Gjermundrod, Chrystalla Miltiadou, Theodora Ioannou (2011), “A Technological Approach for Evaluating the Sustainability Performance of Housing Developments”, International Journal for Infonomics (IJI), Volume 5, Issue 1, ISSN: 1742 4712 (Online), Infonomics Society, pp. 557-567

Conference Proceedings

• Dionysiou I. Pouyioutas P. Gjermundrod H. Miltiadou C. Ioannou T (2011) “A software tool for evaluating the sustainability performance of housing developments”, Sustainable Technologies WCST - 2011 World Congress

Academic Knowledge

• Software Development: C/C++, Java, Visual Basic, Pascal
• Mobile Applications Development: Android SDK
• Database Design & Development: MySQL, MS SQL, MS Access
• Graphics & Image Analysis: Matlab, OpenCV