Short bio

This is my personal web page. I was born in Athens in 1981. I received the Diploma degree in Computer Science from the University of Ioannina (UOI) in Greece in 2003, ranked 2nd out of 80 students. I was then accepted as a graduate student in the Computer Engineering Department of the University of Minnesota (UMN), where I received my MS degree in 2005. Subsequently, I was admitted as a PhD candidate to the Department of Computer and Communication Engineering in the University of Thessaly (UTH) in Greece, from where I received my PhD degree (with honors) in 2009. My doctoral dissertation has been selected as one of the four finalists for the 2009 SIGKDD Dissertation Award, receiving the Certificate of Recognition. Since March 2009, I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) at Vanderbilt University, under the supervision of Prof. Bradley Malin.

In the past, I was appointed as a research assistant in both the University of Minnesota and the University of Manchester. I am actively involved in the reviewing process of many top ranked conferences and journals. I serve as a regular reviewer for Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE), Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS) and ACM Computing Reviews (CR), as well as in the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Knowledge-Based Organizations (IJKBO). From January to December 2009 I also served in the Editorial Board of ACM Crossroads as a contributing editor.

My research interests are in the areas of databases, privacy preserving data mining, privacy and anonymity in trajectories and LBSs, privacy in medical records and knowledge hiding in transactional and trajectory data.

My detailed CV can be downloaded (in pdf) here.

New (19/7/2009):   Interview in the Greek newspaper "Neos Typos"  (available here in Greek).