Phaedon Kyriakidis
Professor
Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics
Cyprus University of Technology
Cyprus
Biography
Dr. Phaedon Kyriakidis is a Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics of the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT), as well as Adjunct Professor at the Department of Geography of the University California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the USA. He is currently the Dean of the School of Engineering and Technology at CUT, and a former Chair (2016-2017) of the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics at CUT. Dr. Kyriakidis was on the Faculty of the Department of Geography at UCSB -- Assistant Professor (2001-2005), Associate Professor (2005-2012) and Full Professor (2012-2015), as well as a Professor of Spatial Analysis (2009-2015) at the Department of Geography of the University of the Aegean in Greece. He obtained his BSc (1994) from the Department of Geology of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, his PhD (1999) from the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences of Stanford University, USA, with specialization Geostatistics in the Earth Sciences, and worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow (1999-2000) at the Earth Sciences Division of Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, where he also held a Faculty Staff appointment (2001-2013).
Research Interest
Dr. Kyriakidis’s research interests include geostatistics, geocomputation, and geoinformatics, as well as their applications to GIS and remote sensing, earth, atmospheric and environmental sciences, as well as public health and archaeology.
Publications
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Liodakis, S., Kyriakidis, P., and Gaganis, P. (2015): Efficient uncertainty analysis in an anisotropic three dimensional hydrogeological model of flow and transport, Mathematics in Engineering, Science and Aerospace, 6(4), 657-673
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"Park, N.-W., Kyriakidis, P.C., and Hong, S.-Y. (2016): Spatial estimation of classification accuracy using indicator Kriging with an image-derived ambiguity index, Remote Sensing, 8(4), 320"
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"Park, N.-W., Hong, S., Kyriakidis, P.C., Lee W., and Lyu S.-J. (2016): Geostatistical downscaling of AMSR2 precipitation with COMS infrared observations, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 37(16), 3858-3869"
