PhD Student
at Ex)situ, Inria, Université Paris-Saclay

Studio
1 Rue Raimond Castaing et Rue René Thom (Bât Digitéo)
Université Paris-Saclay
91190, Gif-sur-Yvette
France
+33(0)766962969

sotirios.piliouras at inria.fr

I am a PhD student at the Ex)Situ team of Inria, Université Paris-Saclay, and the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Digital Sciences (LISN - CNRS).

My research interest lies in the area of Human-Computer Interaction. I am particularly interested in expressive digital making workflows, 3D design, procedural methods, and creativity support tools. I hold a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (Greece). I completed a M.Sc. in Media Technology with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction at Leiden University (Netherlands). In parallel with my studies, I have worked as a 3D designer, teaching assistant, and data analyst.

You can find my creative portfolio here.

Please find below my research papers and publications.

Incorporating 3D-Rendered Materials in Visualization

Sotiris Piliouras, Pierre Dragicevic, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon and Theophanis Tsandilas
Eurographics Visualization Conference (EuroVis), June 2025

AI-imagery Co-creativity Tools for Ideation

Sotiris Piliouras, Rob Saunders and Anna Jordanous
Human Machine Interaction Workshop of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI), September 2024

Through Troubled Waters: A Narrative Game for Anger Regulation

Jiaqi Li, Sotiris Piliouras, Semma Raadschelders, Vivian Imani Dap, Claudia Alessandra Libbi and Marcello A. Gómez-Maureira
In Springer International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC), November 2022

Investigating the Effect of First-Person Perspective Simulation on Players’ Connectedness with Nature

Sotiris Piliouras, Jiaqi Li, Vivian Imani Dap, Ilse Arwert, Ross Towns and Tessa Verhoef
In Springer Games and Learning Alliance Conference (GALA), December 2022

Automatic Parameter Learning in BioImage Analysis Algorithms

Sotiris Piliouras, George Stamou, Ivo Sbalzarini
Engineering Diploma Thesis, National Technical University of Athens, June 2020