Amalia Foka

Associate Professor, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of the Peloponnese. Research and teaching across artificial intelligence, computer vision, autonomous agents, robotics, digital art history, computational creativity, and computational and media art.

My work brings together technical AI research, critical approaches to machine learning and visual culture, and artistic practice with generative and data-driven media.

Academic Positions

  • Present2025

    Associate Professor, Informatics: Multimedia Applications for the Arts

    University of the Peloponnese, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications.

  • 20252025

    Associate Professor in Computer Science Applications for the Arts

    University of Ioannina, Department of Fine Arts and Art Sciences.

  • 20252014

    Assistant Professor in Computer Science Applications for the Arts

    University of Ioannina, Department of Fine Arts and Art Sciences.

  • 20152014

    Collaborating Researcher

    Computer Technology Institute and Press "Diophantus", Greek School Network and Networking Technologies Directorate.

  • 20132005

    Appointed Assistant Professor

    University of Patras, Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics.

  • 20082005

    Appointed Assistant Professor

    University of Ioannina, Department of Computer Science.

Education

  • Ph.D.2005

    PhD in Computer Science

    University of Crete, Greece

  • MSc1999

    MSc in Advanced Control

    University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), UK

  • BEng1998

    BEng in Computer Systems Engineering

    University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), UK

Teaching

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomous Agents
  • Computer Vision
  • Introduction to Creative Informatics and New Media Art
  • Special Topics in Deep Learning and Applications
  • Digital Art History

Research Areas

  • AI, machine learning and computer vision
  • Generative AI and text-to-image models
  • Digital art history and cultural analytics
  • Computational creativity and media art
  • Robotics, autonomous agents and visual reasoning
  • Critical evaluation of algorithmic visual culture

Doctoral Supervision

Architectures for Robust Visual Reasoning and Fine-Grained Visual Recognition. Current doctoral supervision on visual language models, zero-shot learning, knowledge graphs, graph neural networks, explainable multimodal reasoning and domain-aware visual intelligence.

Selected Recent Publications, Talks and Exhibitions

  • 2026Book Chapter

    Experiments in the Relationship between Art History and Text-to-Image Models

    In Artificial Intelligence and Art History, Proceedings of the British Academy.

  • 2025Exhibition

    She Works, He Works

    IEEE / CVF CVPR AI Art Gallery, Nashville, USA.

  • 2025Paper

    Generating Virtual Landscapes and Environmental Narratives with StyleGAN2

    EvoMUSART 2025, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer.

  • 2024Paper

    A Framework for Critical Evaluation of Text-to-Image Models

    ECCV 2024 Workshops, Springer.

For the full record, see Publications and Exhibitions.