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George Bargiannis, publishing as George Baryannis, is Reader in Artificial Intelligence and Subject Area Leader for Computing and Information Systems in the School of Computing and Engineering at the University of Huddersfield. He also serves as Deputy Director of the Centre for Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. His research primarily focuses on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, as well as the Interpretability, Explainability, and Trustworthiness of Artificial Intelligence. These efforts are applied in domains such as supply chains, smart homes, and service-oriented computing. Bargiannis has secured more than £2.5 million in external competitive funding as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator. He has authored over 50 papers in books, journals, conference, and workshop proceedings. A prominent publication is "Predicting supply chain risks using machine learning: The trade-off between accuracy and complexity" (2019), cited over 500 times. His Google Scholar profile reflects an h-index of 22 and more than 3,100 citations. Recent works include "Advancing Sustainable Supply Chains Through Knowledge Graph Completion and Graph-Based Artificial Intelligence" (2026) and "FATO: The Food Allergen Traceability Ontology" (2026).
Bargiannis holds a DiplEng in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Crete (2006), an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Crete (2009), and a PhD in Computer Science from the same institution (2014). His career began as Research Assistant at the Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), from 2007 to 2014. He joined the University of Huddersfield in 2015 as Research Assistant, progressing to Research Fellow, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and now Reader. He has taught and led undergraduate and postgraduate modules and courses in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, both in face-to-face and distance learning formats, and supervised student projects across programmes. Bargiannis is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of AI in Scientific Disciplines and serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments. He has delivered invited talks such as "Knowledge-based Artificial Intelligence: Achieving Inherent Explainability in Intelligent Applications" (2025) and chaired the 13th International Conference on Computer Technologies and Development (2024). He has contributed to projects including SPHERE and MIREL.
