People

Faculty Members:

Alexander Artikis

Alexander Artikis

Assoc. Professor at the Department of Maritime Studies, University of Piraeus. Alexander’s research interests lie in the areas of artificial intelligence and distributed systems.

Christos Doulkeridis

Christos Doulkeridis

Assoc. Professor at the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus. Christos’s research interests cover topics related to Big Data, including data management and query processing.

Eleftherios Kofidis

Eleftherios Kofidis

Assoc. Professor at the Department of Statistics & Insurance Science, University of Piraeus. His research interests are in signal processing and applied tensor algebra for communications and biomedical applications.

Nikos Pelekis

Nikos Pelekis

Assoc. Professor at the Department of Statistics & Insurance Science, University of Piraeus. His research interests include BIG data mining and management topics, with a particular interest in mobility data.

Aggelos Pikrakis

Aggelos Pikrakis

Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus. Aggelos’s research interests cover machine learning for audio, music and speech signals, with an emphasis on Deep Learning architectures, Dictionary Learning methods, Hidden Markov models and Dynamic Time Warping Techniques.

Yannis Theodoridis

Yannis Theodoridis

Professor at the Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus. Yannis’ research interests cover mobility data management and exploration topics.

Researchers:

Eva Chondrodima

Eva Chondrodima

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus. Eva’s research interests lie in the area of computational intelligence, while her published work include journals such as IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Applied Soft Computing, etc.

Harris Deralas

Machine Learning Engineer (2 MScs in AI and Mechanical Engineering) with 8 years industry experience in automotive R&D. Worked on developing and applying various machine learning algorithms, explainable AI and optimization methodologies to customer Big Data for use-cases such as EU customer segmentation/representative driving patterns generation and assessing the real-world energy consumption potential benefits of new technologies. Current research interests focus on AI applications in urban mobility and cybersecurity.

Fragkiskos Gryllakis

Fragkiskos Gryllakis

Fragkiskos Gryllakis is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus. Prior to this, he received his MSc in Advanced Information Systems from University of Piraeus, his first BSc in Economics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and his second BSc in Computer Science from Athens University of Economics and Business. His research interests include graph databases, spatio-temporal-textual data management and analytics, big mobility data management and analytics, semantic trajectories and community detection.

Yannis Kontoulis

Yannis Kontoulis

PhD Candidate at the Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus. Yannis’ research interests lie in the areas of machine learning and data mining, with an emphasis on Deep Learning Architectures.

Athanasios Koumparos

Athanasios Koumparos

PhD Student at the Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus. Athanasios’ research agenda includes urban mobility, driver behaviour modeling, etc.

Stelios Sideridis

PhD Candidate at the Department of Statistics and Insurance Science, University of Piraeus. Stelios’ research interests include data management, mining and analytics, with an emphasis on mining mobility data semantically enriched and mobility data simulation.

Giorgos Theodoropoulos

Giorgos Theodoropoulos

Giorgos Theodoropoulos (BSc 2021) is a postgraduate student at the University of Piraeus. His research interests include mobility data mining, data analytics and Machine Learning.

Andreas Tritsarolis

Andreas Tritsarolis

Andreas Tritsarolis (BSc 2021; MSc 2022) is a junior researcher at the Data Science Lab, University of Piraeus. His research interests lie in the areas of Mobility Data Analytics, Data Mining and Machine Learning.

Alumni:

Dr. Nikos Giatrakos, current position: Postdoc Researcher, TU Crete
Dr. Sophia Karagiorgou, current position: Senior R&D Manager, UBITECH
Despina Kopanaki, current position: Project Manager, ICS-FORTH
Dr. Evangelos Kotsifakos, current position: Project Manager, LSTECH
Dr. Gerasimos Marketos: current position: Product Manager, Hack The Box
Dr. Eirini Ntoutsi, current position: Full Professor, Freie Universität Berlin
Petros Petrou, current position: Research Associate, UBITECH
Dr. Panagiotis Tampakis, current position: Asst. Professor, University of Southern Denmark
Marios Vodas, current position: Researcher, Marine Traffic