An online talk on human development, aging, and the role of Artificial Intelligence will take place on Thursday, February 12, at 12:00, featuring speaker Mr. Christos Skiadas, former Vice-Rector of the Technical University of Crete.
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By 2013, we had identified characteristic distinct waves at specific ages, such as in the cases presented here. Based on the publications by C. Skiadas and C. H. Skiadas, the quantitative method for estimating human development stages utilizes the Health State Function Theory and the subsequent deterioration process to analyze changes in health throughout the human lifespan.
This approach was first published in 2013 and employs the statistical analysis of mortality data rather than disease-focused research, thereby achieving greater flexibility in analyzing different time periods.
Keywords: Health state function, health state curves, mortality plateau, human capital, labor force, retirement age.
Christos Ch. Skiadas, PhD
Former Vice-Rector
Technical University of Crete
Short Bio
A graduate of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), he worked for twelve (12) years in engineering activities (research, design, and supervision) and for two (2) years (1980–82) in the design and promotion (marketing) of new products.
He completed his doctoral dissertation entitled “Diffusion of New Technologies: Mathematical Models and Applications” at the Department of Chemical Engineering, NTUA.
From September 1987 he was appointed to the Technical University of Crete, initially as a visiting professor and subsequently as Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Production Engineering and Management. There, he independently taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels the following courses: Data Analysis (statistical analysis techniques for large-scale data tables), Project Management and Scheduling, Marketing, Technological Forecasting, Stochastic and Deterministic Modeling, Survival Data Analysis, and Chaotic Models.
He has published 40 scientific books with major international publishing houses, including Springer Nature, World Scientific, ISTE Wiley, as well as Birkhäuser, CRC, Kluwer, and Taylor & Francis. From 1986 to the present, he has authored more than 200 research papers in international scientific journals, conference proceedings, and chapters in edited volumes.
For 40 years he has organized or contributed to the organization of 57 international scientific conferences, including Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Data Analysis, ASMDA International, DEMOGRAPHICS Workshops, and Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conferences. In addition, he has organized conferences of the Hellenic Statistical Institute (HSI).
Additional Activities
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Honorary Doctorate from the Hellenic Mediterranean University
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Vice President of the Board of Directors of the company for the exploitation of the property of the Technical University of Crete, 1993
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Head of the Department of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, 1995–1997
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Vice-Rector of the Technical University of Crete, 1997–1999
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Since 2011, President of the International Society for the Advancement of Research and Technology (ISART), which organizes the aforementioned international conferences; since 2009, the society has also organized the international conference Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML), which is also published as an open-access periodical.
