Kostas Ordoumpozanis is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication at the University of the Aegean, focusing on enhancing cultural storytelling through immersive technologies and generative AI with multimodal approaches. Concurrently, he is an MPhil student in Computer Science at the International University of Greece, specializing in artificial intelligence. Kostas received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Western Macedonia in 2005. His early research as a PhD Candidate from 2006 to 2011 involved the simulation of building-integrated hybrid ventilated photovoltaic facades, culminating in three publications in high-impact journals and numerous presentations at Greek conferences. Between 2006 and 2016, Kostas amassed over 1500 hours teaching sustainable design to engineers at various vocational training centers and served as an assistant professor in sustainable design simulation.

Since 2016, he has been a freelance full-stack developer, creative technologist, and entrepreneur, working on projects related with web Systems, gamification, branding and the last years focusing on large language models, retrieval-augmented generation systems, AI algorithms, and. Additionally, Kostas has a decade of professional experience as a photographer and cinematographer, specializing in portraits and branding storytelling. He also represents Greece in Euromersive, the European federation for immersive and emerging technologies.