🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Aristotelis (Telis) Ballas, postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University, on receiving the 2nd Runner-up (Honorable Mention) award in the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society (EETN) Best PhD Dissertation Award 2026.

Telis was recognized for his PhD dissertation, "Representation Learning Algorithms for Out-of-Distribution Generalization," which was carried out at our Department under the supervision of Professor Christos Diou.

This distinction is a testament to the high quality of his research and highlights the excellent work being carried out at our Department in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

We warmly congratulate Telis on this outstanding achievement and wish him every success in his future research and academic career!