Education
2010 – PhD, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Thesis: Semantic Analysis of Multimedia Data with Machine Learning. Grade: Excellent.2004 – Diploma of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Grade: 8.35/10.Professional Experience
2011-today – Research fellow, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Project: BigO – Big Data against Childhood Obesity, H2020-727688
Roles: Project innovation manager, WP4 leader (Analytics and visualisation engine)
Project: SPLENDID – Personalised Guide for Eating and Activity Behaviour for the Prevention of Obesity and Eating Disorders, FP7-610749
Role: WP leader (information processing and inference)
2011-2013 – Postdoctoral research associate, Center for Research and Technology Hellas / Informatics and Telematics Institute
Project: CASSANDRA – A multivariate platform for assessing the impact of strategic decisions in electrical power systems, FP7-228429
Role: Member of the project coordinating team (day-to-day technical project coordination and communication activities), research on low-power consumer modelling
2006-2010 – Research associate, Center for Research and Technology Hellas / Informatics and Telematics Institute
Project: VITALAS – Video and Image Indexing and Retrieval in the Large Scale, FP6-045389-IP
Role: Researcher (cross-media audiovisual concept detectors)
Project: ASSIST – ASsociation Studies assisted by Inference and Semantic Technologies IST-4-027510-STP
Role: Researcher (system architecture, semantic unification of medical archives)
2005-2008 – Computer Engineer, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki / Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: PYTHAGORAS – Remote Controlled Intelligent Robot in an Augmented Reality Environment
Role: Software developer
07/2003-09/2003 – Computer Engineer, P.I.T. Telecommunications Research Institute / Warsaw division
Project: Development of an automatic radar tracking system operating under high clutter conditions
Role: Researcher