General info on Research
Research plays a central role in the activities of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Cyprus. Our vision is to create an inspiring and productive environment where high quality research can be carried out. Despite the fact that the Department was just recently initiated, and admitted its first postgraduate students in September 2003, it has achieved some notable research distinctions. For example, during the period September 2003 – August 2005 faculty and students published 138 refereed publications, which corresponds to almost 7 publications per faculty per year. Of these publications, 41 were journal publications in some of the most prestigious journals in the field (e.g. SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design (CAD) of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Cancer, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Annals of Operations Research, International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing).

The Electrical and Computer Engineering department has been very successful in attracting research funding. The faculty in the Department have more than 30 active research projects, totaling more than 3 million Euros. It is important to note that more than 80% of the research funding was from external sources (outside the university).

The high quality and international visibility of the research program that began to be carried out at the Electrical and Computer Engineering department is evident by the prestigious positions that ECE faculty members hold and their awards, such as IEEE Fellow, Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Chair of the IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Intelligent Control, Vice President for Conferences of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Members of International Program Committees for several conferences, etc.