- Co-authored over a hundred journal and conference papers
- Authored a book
- Supervised 8 Ph.D. Theses and 18 MS theses
- His students currently hold academic positions or are employed in top industry labs
- His research has been supported by NSF (including an NSF CAREER award), DoD, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Tobacco Related Disease Research Program, European Commission, AT&T, and Nokia
- Served as a General co-Chair in the IEEE ICDM 2010 conference, PC co-Chair in ECML/PKDD 2011, IEEE ICDM 2008, ACM SIGKDD 2006, SSDBM 2003, and DMKD 2000 conferences, and as an Associate Editor at Springer KAIS, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TPDS, and ACM TKDD journals
Research Experience
- Currently a Professor in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens
- Held positions as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut for Informatics, Visiting Researcher at the University of Helsinki, Research Associate at the IBM Almaden Research Center, and joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California Riverside as an Assistant Professor in 1999, where he became an Associate Professor (with tenure) and a Full Professor
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, November 1995, Princeton University, Advisor: David P. Dobkin
- M.A., October 1992, Princeton University
- Computer Engineering and Informatics Diploma, 1990, University of Patras, Greece
Background
His research interests include Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Databases, Sensor Networks, Peer-to-Peer systems, and Algorithms. He has developed clustering, classification, and indexing techniques for high-dimensional and object trajectory data, data analysis tools for sensor networks, and is currently working on blog and document analysis problems.