Dr Iraklis Lazakis

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Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering

Personal statement

I joined the Dpt of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering (NAOME) of the University in 2007 as a phd researcher while and I’m currently a Senior Lecturer at the same dpt since 2011. I principally teach Analysis tools for marine design, Principles of Marine design and production, System availability and maintenance in addition to Offshore renewables subjects such as marine operations, maintenance and reliability, systems condition monitoring, project management.

The above mentioned areas also reflect my key research and knowledge exchange interests which include among others ship operations, systems maintenance and reliability, ship systems condition monitoring, risk analysis tools and methodologies, system criticality assessment, shipyard manufacturing and productivity, asset management, wind-wave-tidal energy devices installation, operation and maintenance.

I am also currently involved in key departmental and Faculty-wide positions such as being NAOME Undergraduate Academic selector and Year 1 advisor of studies, Member of the NAOME management Committee, Chairman of NAOME Knowledge Exchange committee, Member of the University Recruitment and Knowledge Exchange committees at the Faculty of Engineering. In all the above activities my role is to support the NAOME scope and interests as well as helping colleagues in achieving greater success in research funding applications, academic publications and knowledge exchange activities.

Expertise

Has expertise in:

Throughout the last few years I have developed and enhanced my expertise in areas including ship operations, systems maintenance and reliability, ship systems condition monitoring, risk analysis tools and methodologies, system criticality assessment, shipyard manufacturing and productivity, asset management, wind-wave-tidal energy devices, renewable projects operation and maintenance, project management.

Prizes and awards

Certificate of appreciation: Recipient; 7/2/2020
Strathclyde Teaching Excellence awards: Recipient; 20/5/2016
Certificate of Outstanding Service: Recipient; 18/5/2016
Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards: Multi–Party Collaboration Award: Recipient; 2016
Strathclyde Teaching Excellence awards: Recipient; 5/2015
Strathclyde Teaching Excellence Award: Recipient; 15/5/2014

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Qualifications

Esteem

O&M session champion/chair in Taiwan and Japan for the EPSRC-funded EPENET (Edinburgh-Pacific Partnership of Excellence in New Energy Technologies) project, workshops and events held in Hsinchu (Taiwan) and Kyoto (Japan) at the beginning of March 2013

ISSC committee IV.2 member 2012-2015. The International Ships and offshore Structures Congress is a prestigious event held every three years. It is a forum for the exchange of information by experts undertaking and applying marine structural research. The aim of the ISSC is to further understanding in the various disciplines underpinning marine structural design, production and operation through internationally collaborative endeavours.

ISSC 2012 committee observer

Laureate of the Edelman awards 2012. The Franz Edelman competition attests to the contributions of operations research and analytics in both the profit and non-profit sectors. The purpose of the Franz Edelman competition is to bring forward, recognize and reward outstanding examples of operations research, management science and advanced analytics in practice in the world

Publications

A novel, data-driven heuristic framework for vessel weather routing: Gkerekos Christos, Lazakis Iraklis; Ocean Engineering Vol 197 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2019.106887
Machine learning models for predicting ship main engine Fuel Oil Consumption : a comparative study: Gkerekos Christos, Lazakis Iraklis, Theotokatos Gerasimos; Ocean Engineering Vol 188 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2019.106282
A novel data condition and performance hybrid imputation method for energy effcient operations of marine systems: Cheliotis Michail, Gkerekos Christos, Lazakis Iraklis, Theotokatos Gerasimos; Ocean Engineering, pp. 1-48 (2019)
Investigating an SVM-driven, one-class approach to estimating ship systems condition: Lazakis Iraklis, Gkerekos Christos, Theotokatos Gerasimos; Ships and Offshore Structures Vol 14, pp. 432-441 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1080/17445302.2018.1500189
Application of NARX neural network for predicting marine engine performance parameters: Raptodimos Yiannis, Lazakis Iraklis; Ships and Offshore Structures (2019)
Dynamic predictive reliability assessment of ship systems: Dikis Konstantinos, Lazakis Iraklis; International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering (2019); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnaoe.2019.01.002

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Teaching

Since my appointment at the Dpt of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering at the University of Strathclyde i have been teaching the following modules/subjects:

Undergaduate level

Analysis tools for marine design, Principles of Marine design and production, System availability and maintenance

Postgraduate level

System availability and maintenance

Industrial Doctoral Centre for Offshore renewables (IDCORE): marine operations, maintenance and reliability, systems condition monitoring, project management

I am also currently supervising a number of undergraduate, postgraduate and Phd students regarding their individual projects/thesis, acting as lead supervisor on subjects such as: systems maintenance and reliability, ship systems condition monitoring, risk analysis, criticality assessment, shipyard manufacturing and productivity, asset management, wind-wave-tidal energy devices, renewable projects operation and maintenance, project management.

Professional activities

SNAME student section: Participant; 8/2/2020
Marine Technology Education Consortium (MTEC) (External organisation): Advisor; 1/2/2020
Nigerian Navy lecture: Participant; 11/12/2019
Phd viva external examiner: External Examiner; 21/11/2019
Faculty Unit Engineering (Organisational unit): Member; 1/9/2019
Naval Architecture, Ocean And Marine Engineering (Organisational unit): Chair; 1/9/2019

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Projects

Industrial Case Account - University of Strathclyde 2019 | Anagnostopoulos, Georgios: Kaklis, Panagiotis (Principal Investigator) Lazakis, Iraklis (Co-investigator) Anagnostopoulos, Georgios (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2019 - 01-Jan-2023
KTP - Datum Electronics: Theotokatos, Gerasimos (Principal Investigator) Coraddu, Andrea (Co-investigator) Lazakis, Iraklis (Co-investigator); 05-Jan-2019 - 04-Jan-2021
KTP - AP&A: Lazakis, Iraklis (Principal Investigator) Theotokatos, Gerasimos (Co-investigator); 08-Jan-2018 - 07-Jan-2020
Towards Game-changer Service Operation Vessels for Offshore Windfarms (NEXUS) H2020-BG-2016-2017: Vassalos, Dracos (Principal Investigator) Bedford, Tim (Co-investigator) Boulougouris, Evangelos (Co-investigator) Bujorianu, Luminita (Co-investigator) Lazakis, Iraklis (Co-investigator) McMillan, David (Co-investigator) Puisa, Romanas (Co-investigator) Quigley, John (Co-investigator) Revie, Matthew (Co-investigator) Theotokatos, Gerasimos (Co-investigator) Walls, Lesley (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2017 - 31-Jan-2020
KTP - AP&A Ltd: Lazakis, Iraklis (Principal Investigator) Theotokatos, Gerasimos (Co-investigator); 06-Jan-2017 - 06-Jan-2019
Integrated Ship Energy & Maintenance System (ISEMMS): Lazakis, Iraklis (Principal Investigator); 01-Jan-2016 - 28-Jan-2019

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Address

Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering
Henry Dyer Building

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