Portrait of Dr Kos Zachos

Dr Kos Zachos

CebAI Chief Technology Officer

Cass Business School, Faculty of Management

Contact

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Room BR4, Bunhill Row

Postal address

Cass Business School
106 Bunhill Row
London
EC1Y 8TZ
United Kingdom

About

Overview

Konstantinos Zachos is a Research Fellow at the Bayes Business School at City, University of London, where he is Chief Technology Officer of CebAI, the National Centre for Creativity enabled by AI, funded by Research England. He is also Chief Technology Officer at JECT.AI, a University spin-out. His research interests are in the areas of computer science and creativity with a focus on designing and developing digital creativity tools to reinforce learning in creative problem solving and enhance creativity in sectors from journalism and manufacturing to social care and elite sports training.

Qualifications

  1. PhD, City, University of London, United Kingdom, Oct 2004 – Dec 2007

Employment

  1. Chief Technology Officer, City, University London, Oct 2020 – present
  2. Chief Technology Officer, City, University London, Oct 2020 – present
  3. Research Fellow, City, University of London, Oct 2007 – present

Languages

English (can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review), German (can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review) and Greek, Modern (1453-) (can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review).

Expertise

Primary topics

  • Innovation & Creativity

Additional topics

  • Design Thinking
  • Information Management
  • Technology Management

Industries

  • computing
  • information technology
  • software

Geographic Areas

  • Europe

Research

Current Research Projects

- JECT.AI
- QUEST

Research Interests

- Theories and models of creativity in software design
- Artificial Intelligence for Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing

Publications

Chapter

  1. Zachos, K., Maiden, N. and Levis, S. (2015). Creativity Support to Improve Health-and-Safety in Manu-facturing Plants. ACM. ISBN 978-1-4503-3598-0.

Conference papers and proceedings (35)

  1. Maiden, N. and Zachos, K. (2020). INJECT: Algorithms to Discover Creative Angles on News. Computation + Journalism 2020 20-21 March, Boston, US.
  2. Maiden, N. and Zachos, K. (2020). INJECT: Algorithms to Discover Creative Angles on News. Computation + Journalism 2020 20-21 March, Boston, USA.
  3. Maiden, N., Zachos, K., Franks, S., Wells, R. and Stallard, S. (2020). Designing Digital Content to Support Science Journalism. NordiCHI '20: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society.
  4. Maiden, N., Zachos, K., Brown, A., Nyre, L., Holm, B., Tonheim, A. … Apstolou, D. (2019). Evaluating the Use of Digital Creativity Support by Journalists in Newsrooms. ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference 2019 23-26 June, San Diego.
  5. Zachos, K., Apostolou, D., Paraskevopoulos, F., Ientsek, S., Maiden, N., Brown, A. … Mentzas, G. (2018). Creative Information Exploration in Journalism. 2018 9th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA) 23-25 July.
  6. Maiden, N., Zachos, K., Brown, A., Brock, G., Nyre, L., Nygård Tonheim, A. … Evans, J. (2018). Making the News. CHI '18: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
  7. Maiden, N., Zachos, K., Lockerbie, J., Levis, S., Camargo, K., Hoddy, S. … Allemandi, G. (2017). Evaluating Digital Creativity Support To Improve Health-and-Safety in a Manufacturing Plant. CHI '17: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
  8. Maiden, N., Zachos, K., Lockerbie, J., Camargo, K. and Hoddy, S. (2017). Establishing Digital Creativity Support in Non-Creative Work Environments. C&C '17: Creativity and Cognition.
  9. Maiden, N., Lockerbie, J., Zachos, K., Bertolino, A., De Angelis, G. and Lonetti, F. (2014). A requirements-led approach for specifying QoS-aware service choreographies: An experience report.
  10. Thompson, C., Maiden, N., Nouri, M. and Zachos, K. (2013). Evoking Emotion through Stories in Creative Dementia Care. 8th International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems 7-9 November, Kracow, Poland.
  11. Pitts, K., Zachos, K. and Maiden, N. (2013). Creativity Support for Learning in the Person-Centred Care of Older People with Dementia. 1st Workshop on Fostering Creativity in Learning Processes (CCL 2013) 18 September, Paphos, Cyprus.
  12. Zachos, K., Maiden, N., Pitts, K., Jones, S., Turner, I., Rose, M. … MacManus, J. (2013). A software app to support creativity in dementia care. 9th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition 17-20 June, Sydney, Australia.
  13. Zachos, K., Maiden, N.A.M., Pitts, K., Jones, S., Turner, I., Rose, M. … MacManus, J. (2013). A software app to support creativity in dementia care.
  14. Zachos, K. and Maiden, N. (2013). A computational model of analogical reasoning in dementia care.
  15. Webster, S., Zachos, K. and Maiden, N. (2013). An emerging computational model of flow spaces to support social creativity.
  16. Jones, S.V., Poulsen, A., Maiden, N. and Zachos, K. (2011). User roles in asynchronous distributed collaborative idea generation. 8th ACM conference on Creativity and cognition 3-6 November, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
  17. Zachos, K., Maiden, N., Karlsen, K., Jones, S., Turner, I. and Rose, M. (2011). Introducing Creativity Techniques and Software Apps to the Care of People with Dementia. 8th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition 3-6 November, Atlanta, USA.
  18. Nobauer, M., Seyff, N., Maiden, N. and Zachos, K. (2011). 3C: Using Service Discovery to Support Requirements Elicitation in the ERP Domain. CAiSE’2011 Conference London.
  19. Karlsen, K., Zachos, K., Maiden, N., Jones, S., Turner, I., Rose, M. … Pudney, K. (2011). Supporting reflection and creative thinking by carers of older people with dementia.
  20. Zachos, K., Lockerbie, J., Hughes, B. and Matthews, P. (2011). Towards a framework for describing cloud service characteristics for use by chief information officers.
  21. Jones, S., Poulsen, A., Maiden, N.A.M. and Zachos, K. (2011). User roles in asynchronous distributed collaborative idea generation.
  22. Maiden, N., Jones, S., Karlsen, K., Neill, R., Zachos, K. and Milne, A. (2010). Requirements engineering as creative problem solving: A research agenda for idea finding.
  23. Zachos, K., Maiden, N., Dobson, G. and Sawyer, P. (2010). Using QoS for Relevance Feedback in Service Discovery: A Preliminary Empirical Investigation.
  24. Zachos, K., Nikolaou, C., Petridis, P., Stratakis, G., Voskakis, M. and Papathanasiou, E. (2009). Enhancing service network analysis and service selection using requirements-based service discovery.
  25. Zachos, K., Maiden, N.A.M. and Howells-Morris, R. (2008). Discovering Web Services to Improve Requirements Specifications: Does It Help?.
  26. Zachos, K., Dobson, G. and Sawyer, P. (2008). Ontology-aided translation in the comparison of candidate service quality.
  27. Zachos, K., Maiden, N.A.M., Zhu, X. and Jones, S. (2007). Discovering Web Services to Specify More Complete System Requirements.
  28. Dourdas, N., Zhu, X., Maiden, N., Jones, S. and Zachos, K. (2006). Discovering Remote Software Services that Satisfy Requirements: Patterns for Query Reformulation. 18th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering: CAiSE 2006 5-9 June, Luxembourg.
  29. Zachos, K., Maiden, N., Zhu, X. and Jones, S. (2006). Does service discovery enhance requirements specification? A preliminary empirical investigation.
  30. Zisman, A., Jones, S., Kozlenkov, A., Mahbub, K., Maiden, N., Spanoudakis, G. … Zhu, X. (2005). Service Discovery for Service Centric Systems. eChallenges 2005 19-21 October, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  31. Maiden, N., Pang, H., Zachos, K. and Ncube, C. (2005). Do Rich Media Scenarios Support Requirements Discovery? REFSQ 2005 - 11th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality 12-13 June, Porto, Portugal.
  32. Jones, S.V., Maiden, N.A.M., Zachos, K. and Zhu, X. (2005). How Service-Centric Systems Change the Requirements Process. 11th Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality: REFSQ2005.
  33. Zachos, K. and Maiden, N.A.M. (2004). ART-SCENE: Enhancing Scenario Walkthroughs With Multi-Media Scenarios.
  34. Maiden, N., D'Souza, S., Jones, S., Muller, L., Panesse, L., Pitts, K. … Zachos, K. Computing Technologies for Reflective and Creative Care for People with Dementia.
  35. Maiden, N., Zachos, K., Lockerbie, J., Brock, G. and Traver, C.N. Developing and Evaluating Digital Creativity Support in Google Docs for Journalists. Proceedings of the 30th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference.

Journal articles (11)

  1. Franks, S., Wells, R., Maiden, N. and Zachos, K. (2021). Using computational tools to support journalists’ creativity. Journalism pp. 146488492110105–146488492110105. doi:10.1177/14648849211010582.
  2. Maiden, N., Zachos, K., Brown, A., Apostolou, D., Holm, B., Nyre, L. … van den Beld, A. (2020). Digital creativity support for original journalism. Communications of the ACM, 63(8), pp. 46–53. doi:10.1145/3386526.
  3. Maiden, N., Zachos, K. and Lockerbie, J. (2020). Evaluating an information system to provide creative guidance about health-and-safety in manufacturing. Behaviour & Information Technology pp. 1–24. doi:10.1080/0144929x.2020.1743756.
  4. Maiden, N., Zachos, K., Pitts, K. and Pudney, K. (2018). Evaluating the Use of Daily Care Notes Software for Older People with Dementia. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. doi:10.1080/10447318.2018.1482052.
  5. Apostolou, D., Zachos, K., Maiden, N., Agell, N., Sanchez-Hernandez, G., Taramigkou, M. … Wippoo, M. (2016). Facilitating Creativity in Collaborative Work with Computational Intelligence Software. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 11(2), pp. 29–40. doi:10.1109/mci.2016.2532266.
  6. Pitts, K., Pudney, K., Zachos, K., Maiden, N., Krogstie, B., Jones, S. … Turner, I. (2015). Using mobile devices and apps to support reflective learning about older people with dementia. Behaviour & Information Technology, 34(6), pp. 613–631. doi:10.1080/0144929x.2015.1015165.
  7. Maiden, N., D'Souza, S., Jones, S., Müller, L., Pannese, L., Pitts, K. … Zachos, K. (2013). Computing technologies for reflective, creative care of people with dementia. Communications of the ACM, 56(11), pp. 60–67. doi:10.1145/2500495.
  8. Zachos, K., Maiden, N., Pitts, K., Jones, S., Turner, I., Rose, M. … MacManus, J. (2013). Digital creativity in dementia care support. International Journal of Creative Computing, 1(1), pp. 35–35. doi:10.1504/ijcrc.2013.056924.
  9. Zachos, K., Kounkou, A.P. and Maiden, N.A.M. (2012). Exploiting Codified User Task Knowledge to Discover Services at Design-Time. IJSSOE, 3, pp. 30–66.
  10. Zachos, K. and Maiden, N.A.M. (2008). Inventing Requirements from Software: An Empirical Investigation with Web Services. RE pp. 145–154. doi:10.1109/RE.2008.39.

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  11. Zachos, K., Maiden, N.A.M. and Tosar, A. (2005). Rich-Media Scenarios for Discovering Requirements. IEEE Software, 22, pp. 89–97. doi:10.1109/MS.2005.134.