FACULTY: 

Dr. AL-ZOBAIDIESM Ala, Visiting Professor and University of Greenwich link tutor of the M.Sc. in Computer Science programme. 
Ph.D. in Computer Science; M.Sc. in System Development & Software Engineering; B.Sc. in Statistics. 
Dr. ANDREOU, Dimitrios 
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.; M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.; B.S. in Physics, Athens University, Greece. 

Mr. BALLHYSA, Elton, Adjunct Lecturer 
Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science, The University of Manchester, U.K.; M.S. in Computer Science, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey; B.S. in Computer Science, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. 

Dr. BIBA, Marenglen, Assistant Professor 
Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Bari, Italy; Laurea Degree (5 years degree) Cum Laude in Computer Science, University of Bari, Italy. 
Dr. Biba has taught several courses of Computer Science at the University of Bari. His main research area is Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. He has published over thirty papers in international journal, volumes and conference proceedings. He has served as a reviewer for many important conferences such as ECML, IJCAI, ECAI, KDD, ICPR, ICDAR and for international journals such as Neurocomputing, Neural Networks and International Journal on Knowledge and Information Systems. He has released several software packages for Artificial Intelligence such as INTHELEX, DOMINUS, MLN++, PHYLIROTS, DISCRET and GENEPROF. In 2008 his work on integrating logic and probability won the Best Paper Award at 18th International Conference in Inductive Logic Programming, Prague, sponsored by Machine Learning Journal, Springer, New York. He is active member of IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; IEEE Computer Society; ACM - Association for Computing Machinery; ALP - Association for Logic Programming; CINI - Italian National Consortium for Computer Science. He is in the organizing committee of BIO-LOGICAL 2009 - Logic-based approaches in Bioinformatics. In 2007 he was visiting researcher at the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Washington, Seattle. Dr. Biba has participated in several European and national research projects on Digital Libraries, Complex Data Analysis, Data Mining and Bioinformatics. He is active member of the LACAM laboratory and participates in the MBLab initiative jointly with IBM Italy. He has also industrial experience in the development and customization of Enterprise Resource Planning systems. 

Dr. DERVISHI, Perparim, Professor of Management and Marketing. 
Ph.D. in Sciences, The University of Tirana; M.B.A. in Strategy and Leadership, Norwegian School of Management, Norway; B.A. in Economics, Tirana University. 
Përparim Dervishi has been teaching Management courses at UNYT since 2003. Among his other posts, he served as General Director ofCustoms Services, Albania. 

Dr. HANDS, Michael, Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science. 
Ph.D. in Optical Physics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications, King’s College, University of London, London, England; B.Eng. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. 

NEUMANN Paul, Lecturer of Computer Science. 
CISCO certified professional in network design, setup and security; M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (major in Automation and Electrical Metrology), Technical University of Poznan, Poznan, Poland. 

Dr. PANDITHAS, Ioannis, Adjunct Professor. 
Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering, University of Liverpool, England; M.Sc. (Eng.) in Microelectronic Systems and Communications, University of Liverpool, England; B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering, T.E.I. of Piraeus, Athens, Greece. 

Dr. PETRIDIS, Miltos, Visiting Professor in Computer Science. 
Ph.D. M.Eng., MBA. 
Dr. Petridis is Head of the Computer Science and Computer Systems Technology Department at the University of Greenwich, U.K. 

Dr. SAMAKOVITIS, George, Adjunct Professor of Computer Information Systems.
Ph.D in Technological Decision Making for Internet Banking Systems, University of Edinburgh Management School, UK; MBA, University of Edinburgh Management School, UK; MSc in Data Telecommunications and Networks, Salford University, UK; BEng(Hons), Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. 
Dr Samakovitis has been a Research Fellow at Edinburgh University, working for several years in a series of E-learning systems development and implementation projects. His teaching experience concentrates in the area of Technology Management at both undergraduate and MBA levels; his research activity includes the fields of Digital Image Processing, E-learning and Technological Applications in the Financial Services. 

VAJJHALA, Rao - Narasimha, Associate Professor of Computer Science. 
Ph.D. candidate in M.I.S., University of Illinois, U.S.A.; M.B.A., I.U.K.B., Sion-Tirana, Switzerland-Albania; M.S. in Computer Science (ongoing), University of Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K.; M.Phil. candidate in Computer Science, Alagappa University, India; M.C.A. (Master of Computer Applications), Osmania University, India; B.Sc. in Computer Science, Andhra University, India.

Dr. VUCINI, Erald, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computer Science. 
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria; M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey; B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Turkey. 

Dr. XHAFA, Fatos, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science. 
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Department of Languages and Informatics Systems, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain; B.A. in Mathematics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tirana. 

Dr. XHINA, Endri, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computer Science. 
Ph.D. in Informatics, Informatics Department, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tirana, Tirana; Master in Informatics, Informatics Department, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tirana; B.Sc. in Informatics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tirana.