Manolis PitsikalisAI postdoctoral researcher
✦ Currently: Scientific specialist at ELKAK

Making sense of
events over time.

I work at the intersection of artificial intelligence, complex event recognition, temporal logics, and neurosymbolic learning to build systems that understand evolving phenomena.

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Manolis Pitsikalis
AI researcherAthens, Greece
Research interests

From low-level signals to meaningful, explainable events.

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Complex event recognition

Detecting meaningful complex event patterns across high-volume, continuously evolving streams.

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Temporal logics

Representing instantaneous and durative phenomena across past and future.

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Neurosymbolic AI

Combining the adaptability of neural learning with the clarity of rule-based reasoning.

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Run-time model adaptation

Adapting predictive models over continuously changing streaming data.

Recent publications

Latest research output

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Book chapters

Event-processing methods for maritime situational awareness and recognition of composite maritime activities.

Book chapter · 2020

Event Processing for Maritime Situational Awareness

Manolis Pitsikalis, Konstantina Bereta, Marios Vodas, Dimitris Zissis, Alexander Artikis
Published inBig Data Analytics for Time-Critical Mobility Forecasting
Pages 255–274 · Springer Cham
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 Book chapter · 2021

Composite Maritime Event Recognition

Manolis Pitsikalis, Alexander Artikis
Published inGuide to Maritime Informatics
Pages 233–260 · Springer Cham
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Teaching

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens 2025

YS05 · 2025

Logic Programming

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YS09 · 2025

Software Engineering

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Recognition

Awards

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Distinguished Artifact Reviewer AwardETAPS · 2025
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Harold Boley Award for Most Promising PaperRuleML+RR · 2021
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EPSRC StudentshipUniversity of Liverpool · PhD
Academic service

Program committee memberships

Service as a program committee member, reviewer, and artifact evaluator for international conferences in artificial intelligence, data mining, knowledge management, and formal methods.

CIKM2021–2025Program Committee Member
IEEE BigData2024Program Committee Member
ETAPS2025Artifact Evaluation Committee
ECAI2025Program Committee Member
ICDM2025Program Committee Member
Short bio

Manolis Pitsikalis is an AI researcher working on complex event recognition and forecasting, temporal logic, stream reasoning, and neurosymbolic AI. He received his PhD from the University of Liverpool, where his research combined logic-based methods and machine learning for real-time analysis, with a particular focus on maritime surveillance. He has held research positions at NCSR Demokritos and the University of Liverpool, and was a visiting researcher at the NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation. He has also taught Logic Programming and Software Engineering at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and supervised undergraduate/postgraduate research projects.