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Research Interests
I'm interested in Data Mining, Signal Processing & Optimization Algorithms for Data Mining and Multi-way (Tensor) Analysis. More specifically, I'm currently interested in Anonaly Detection of very large,
time-evolving Graphs.
You can download a .pdf of my CV
here.
Education
- Ph.D: Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University USA, Computer Science Department, August 2011 - present.
Advisor: Prof. Christos Faloutsos
- M.Sc: Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece, March 2010 - July 2011, under the supervision of Prof. Nikos Sidiropoulos.
Courses GPA: 9.625/10
- Diploma: Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece, September 2005 - February 2010 (4.5 out of 5 years), under the supervision of Prof. Nikos Sidiropoulos.
Grade: 9.05/10 (Excellent- in the top 2% of all the Department's graduates).
Graduate Coursework
@ CMU
Computer Networks,
Spectral Graph Theory and Numerical Linear Algebra,
Multimedia Databases and Data Mining (audit), Graduate Algorithms, Semantics of Programming Languages,
Information Processing & Learning,
Social Media Analysis,
Computer Architecture.
@ TUC
Detection & Estimation Theory, Convex Optimization, Approximate Methods for Very Large Datasets, Analysis & Design (Synthesis) of Telecom Modules
Academic & Research Experience
- Teaching Assistant and web-master for the Graph Analytics Workshop, organized at Carnegie Mellon University, September 10-13, 2012
- Contributed in grant proposal writing for a NSF BIGDATA grant.
- External reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE) and Springer's Encyclopedia on Social Nework Analysis and Mining
- Reviewer for conferences: ACM WWW 2013, IEEE ICDM 2011 (list), and MILCOM 2012
- Graduate Researcher at the CS Department of CMU, September 2011 -present
- Teaching Assistant for the Statistical Signal Processing for Communications course at TUC, March 2011 - August 2011
- Teaching Assistant for the Introduction to Optimization course at TUC, September 2010 - February 2011
- Graduate Researcher at the ECE department of TUC, May 2010 - August 2011