Damianos Chatziantoniou

Professor, Director of the Program, Dept. of Management Science & Technology, AUEB

Damianos Chatziantoniou received his B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Athens and continued his studies at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University (M.Sc.) and Columbia University (M.Phil., Ph.D.) His academic research interests include big data systems, business intelligence, large-scale analytics, query processing, data streams and real-time analysis. He has published more than 30 articles at top conferences and journals, such as VLDB, ICDE, EDBT, KDD, SIGMOD, CIKM, Journal of Information Systems, DKE and elsewhere. His research work has influenced Microsoft’s SQL Server (query processor), Oracle’s 8i and 9i Systems (Analytic Functions for OLAP), and ANSI SQL Standard (OLAP Amendment). He is currently a Professor at Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB). Prior to AUEB, he has served as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. Besides academia, Damianos has been actively involved in several technology start-up companies in New York, Athens and San Francisco. Panakea Software Inc. (founder, 1998), based in New York City, developed and marketed database querying/reporting technology to make certain analytic tasks (OLAP) easier to express and faster to evaluate. Clients included Dun & Bradstreet, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and Philips North America. VoiceWeb (founder, 2001), based in Athens, focused on speech & telecom applications. Most recently, Damianos has served as a senior research consultant in Aster Data Systems, a pioneer in big data systems. Aster Data was acquired in March of 2011 by Teradata.

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Dimitris Karlis

Professor, Dept. of Statistics, AUEB

Dimitris Karlis is Professor at the Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB). He received a BSc in Statistics from the Department of Statistics, AUEB, in 1992 and a PhD in Statistics from the same department in 1999. He has published approximately 70 papers in peer reviewed statistical journals. His research interests refer to mixture models, computational statistics and especially stochastic algorithms, multivariate count data analysis, models for statistical analysis for sports data and modeling dependent data via copulas. He is an Associate editor of Metron journal, Communications in Statistics (both Theory and Methods and Computation and Simulation), IMA Journal of Management Mathematics and Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, while he has acted as a referee for more than 135 papers. He is also editor of Biometrics Bulletin of IBS. He has supervised 2 PhD students (currently the one is lecturer at the Univ. of East Anglia, UK and the other a Post-Doc at the University of Cyprus), 14 Master thesis, while at this moment he supervises two PhD students. He has been invited in several conferences around the world. He is a member of the American Statistical Society, elected member of the International Statistical Institute, member of the International Association of Statistical Computing, publicity officer of the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the International Biometrics Society and member of the Greek Statistical institute. He has also participated in several European projects related to statistics and mainly to official statistics.

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Yannis Kotidis

Professor, Dept. of Informatics, AUEB

Dr. Yannis Kotidis is a Professor in the Department of Informatics at the Athens University of Economics and Business. He holds a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the National Technical University of Athens, and a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland (USA). Between 2000 and 2006 he was a Senior Technical Specialist at the Database Research Department of AT&T Labs-Research in Florham Park, New Jersey.  His main research areas include large scale data management systems, data warehousing and data mining. He has published more than 80 articles in international conferences and journals and holds 5 U.S patents. He has served on numerous organizing and program committees of international conferences related to data management.

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Panagiotis Louridas

Professor, Dept. of Management Science & Technology, AUEB

Panos Louridas is a Professor in the Department of Management Science and Technology, Athens University of Economics and Business. His research interests range along software engineering, algorithms, security, big data, and systems implementation. He is the author of the book “Real World Algorithms, published by the MIT Press, which has been translated in Chinese and Russian and is used as a textbook around the world. His new book “Algorithms (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series)” is currently in press. He has more than 1600 citations. He is a member of the ACM, IEEE, Usenix, and AAAS. Apart from his research experience, he actively designs and writes software, and is responsible for the Zeus e-voting system (https://zeus.grnet.gr), which is used for end-to-end electronic voting in Greece and worldwide. He is a graduate of the Department of Informatics of the University of Athens and holds an MSc by Research and a PhD from the University of Manchester.

Lilian Mitrou

Professor, Dept. of Informatics, University of Aegean

Dr. Lilian Mitrou is a Professor in the Department of Information & Communication Systems Engineering at the University of the Aegean. She teaches information law and data protection law. Lilian Mitrou holds a PhD in Data Protection (University of Frankfurt – Germany). She has served as a Member of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (1999-2003). She has also served as Advisor to the former Prime Minister K. Simitis in sectors of Information Society and Public Administration (1996 – 2004). She served and still serves as member of many Committees working on law proposals in the fields of privacy and data protection, communications law, e-government etc. Her professional experience includes senior consulting and researcher positions in a number of private and public institutions on national and international level. Her research interests include: Privacy and Data Protection,   e-Democracy and eGovernment services, Internet Law. L. Mitrou published books and chapters in books (in Greek, German and English) and many journal and conference papers.

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Ioannis Ntzoufras

Professor, Dept. of Statistics, AUEB

Graduate of the Department of Statistics and Insurance Science (1994). He received his M.Sc. in Statistics with Application in Medicine (with distinction) from the University of Southampton (1995) and his Ph.D. from the Department of Statistics at Athens University of Economics and Business (1999). He completed his military service from May 1999 until November of 2000. He worked as temporary teaching faculty member at the Department Statistics and Actuarial Science of the University of the Aegean (2000-2001). In 2001 he earned (jointly with another candidate) the Lefkopouleion Prize for the best thesis in Statistics in Greece for the period 1999-2000 awarded by the Greek Statistical Institute. He worked a Lecturer of Quantitative Methods at the Department of Business Administration of the University of the Aegean for the period 2001-2004, and as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Statistics of the Athens University of Economics and Business from 2004 until 2011. Over the last years, he has been teaching in several postgraduate courses of the Athens University of Economics and Business (Statistics, Business Analytics, and Data Science), of the University of Athens (Biostatistics, and Estimation and Management of Professional, Environmental and Medical Risk) and of the University of the Aegean (Business Administration). He has given a number of lectures in postgraduate courses at the University of Pavia and at the Universita Catollica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy) and at the Ph.D. program of Statistics at the University of Biccoca-Milan. He has served as a general secretaty of the Greek Statistical Institute for 2006 – 2007. He is creator and organizer of the grstats list (https://grstats.forumotion.net/). In 2010, his book entitled “Bayesian Modeling Using WinBUGS”, published by Wiley and Sons, received honorary mention in the subject of mathematics in the PROSE (Professional and Scholarly Excellence) Awards given by the Association of American Publishers – AAP.
His research interests focus on topics of Bayesian and computational statistics, categorical data analysis, statistical modeling, model and variable selection methodology. He is also highly motivated by applications of sophisticated models in problems related with Medical research, Psychometrics, and sport analytics.

Haris Papageorgiou

Research Director, Institute for Language & Speech Processing, Athena RC, Greece

Haris Papageorgiou is a Principal researcher at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP/R.C. “Athena”) and Co-founder of Qualia, a business intelligence company established in 2006. Haris is responsible for building advanced multimedia analytics for scalable data systems and big data infrastructures. He has held Chief Scientist positions in several european and national projects in the area of multilingual multimodal multimedia processing. Haris holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from National Tech University of Athens(NTUA) and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from NTUA. He has published approx. 100 papers in international scientific books, journals and international conferences and taught in several postgraduate programmes in Business Analytics. His research interests focus on language and speech technology, knowledge discovery and representation, machine learning, web mining and information retrieval.

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Katia Papakonstantinopoulou

Teaching Faculty, Researcher, Dept. of Informatics, AUEB

She studied at the University of Athens (B.S. in informatics and telecommunications, M.Sc. in advanced information systems, Ph.D. in computer science under the guidance of Prof. Elias Koutsoupias). She received a scholarship for doctoral studies from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation. Before joining AUEB she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Athens.
Her research focuses on modeling and analyzing selfish behavior in various networks (routing, information, social, etc.) and compactly representing large such networks, employing Game Theory and Information Theory respectively, as well as analyzing the structure of these networks.
She is a member of the network analysis group and the Theory, Economics and Systems Laboratory (AUEB, Main Building, Antoniadou wing, 4th floor). She is involved in the project 5G-VINNI.

Panagiotis Papastamoulis

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Statistics, AUEB

Graduate of the Department of Mathematics at Patras University (2003). He received his M.Sc in Applied Statistics (2006) and his Ph.D (2010) from the Department of Statistics at University of Piraeus. Since April 2020, he serves as Assistant Professor at the Department of Statistics of Athens University of Economics and Business.
He worked as a post-doc Research Associate at the following universities: 2011-2012 Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Évry, Île-de-France. 2012-2015 Faculty of Life Science, University of Manchester, UK2015-2018 Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, UK.Between. 2018-2019 he worked as adjunct lecturer at Athens University of Economics and Business.His research interests are focused on estimation of finite mixture models, model-based clustering,Bayesian and Computational Statistics and inference on big Bioinformatics data.

George Papastefanatos

Principal Researcher (Grade B), Athena Research Center

Dr. George Papastefanatos is a principal researcher (Grade B) since 2021 at the Information Management Systems Institute (IMSI) of the Athena Research Center. George obtained his Diploma on Electrical and Computer Engineering and his PhD in Computer Science from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Since 2009, George has worked as a senior researcher in several EU and national research projects in Athena R.C., NTUA, University of Athens, and University of Ioannina. He has also worked as an external IT expert in various private and public organizations in the design and implementation of large-scale IT projects. He has been an adjunct\visiting lecturer in University of Peloponnese, Athens University of Economics and Business, University of Aegean, University of Piraeus and National School of Public Administration. George has coedited 1 book, 3 chapters in books and more than 60 publications in international conferences and journals in the areas of big data management and analytics and specifically in issues related to data modelling, indexing and query optimization, data integration, data visualization and visual analytics. Three of his articles have been selected as Best Papers in International conferences. He has been involved in the implementation of more than 15 R&D projects either as senior researcher or scientific coordinator. In 2018, George was one of the receivers of ELIDEK grant for postdoc research on mathematics and computer science.

Angeliki Poulymenakou

Professor, Dept. of Management Science & Technology, AUEB

Angeliki Poulymenakou is Professor in the Department of Management Science & Technology of the Athens University of Economics and Business. Prior to this, she has served as Lecturer in Information Systems at the Information Systems Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science. She holds a first degree in Mathematics (University of Athens), and MSc and PhD degrees in Information Systems both from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests over the years have addressed advanced knowledge analysis and management methods (PhD), inter-organisational networks, IT enabled organisational change and new methods of work, business processes level implications of ERP, e-learning particularly in workplace contexts, e-government (studies in Brazil and Greece), and implications of digital entrepreneurship (China). She has published 25 papers in international journals, 50 papers in peer reviewed international conferences and two books (by Springer Berlin and Kluwer Academic Publishers). Currently she serves on the editorial board of three international journals, while she has served on the program committee and as associate editor for international information systems conferences for multiple years (ICIS, ECIS, IFIP). She has been program co-chair and organising chair for the IFIP WG 8.2 & 9.4 conference (Athens, 2003), program chair for MCIS (Athens, 2009) and programme and organising chair for IFIP WG 9.5 (Athens, 2009). She has acted as research coordinator in 20 EU and national funded Research and Development projects most of them involving collaboration with academic and industrial partners across Europe. Since 2001 she is the Director of the Organisational Information Systems Research Group first in the ELTRUN and then in the ISTLab of the Department of Management Science and Technology of the AUEB.

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Katerina Pramatari

Professor, Dept. of Management Science & Technology, AUEB

Katerina Pramatari is Professor at the Department of Management Science and Technology of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) and scientific coordinator of the ELTRUN-SCORE (Supply Chain & Demand Management Collaboration and Electronic Services) research group. She holds a B.Sc. in Informatics and M.Sc. in Information Systems from AUEB, and a Ph.D. in Information Systems and Supply Chain Management also from AUEB. She has worked as a systems analyst for Procter & Gamble European Headquarters and in the Marketing Department of Procter & Gamble Greece, as well as in the setup of B2B ventures. She has received several business and academic distinctions and scholarships. Her research and teaching areas are supply chain information systems, e-business integration and electronic services. During the last six years she has been supporting the e-nnovation student competition on digital innovation and entrepreneurship. She has published more than 90 papers in scientific journals, peer-reviewed academic conferences and book chapters. Amongst others she has published in the Journal of Retailing, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Decision Support Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, The European Journal of O.R., Computers and O.R., Supply Chain Management-An International Journal, Journal of Information Technology.

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Diomidis Spinellis

Professor, Dept. of Management Science & Technology, AUEB

Diomidis Spinellis is a Professor in the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece. From 2009 to 2011 he instituted and delivered a demanding turnaround process, serving as the Secretary General for Information Systems at the Greek Ministry of Finance. His research interests include software engineering, IT security, and programming languages. He has written two award-winning, widely-translated books: “Code Reading” and “Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective”. Dr. Spinellis has also published more than 200 technical papers in journals and refereed conference proceedings, which have received more than 2000 citations. He is a member of the IEEE Software editorial board, authoring the regular “Tools of the Trade” column. He has contributed code that ships with Mac OS X and BSD Unix and is the developer of UMLGraph and other open-source software packages, libraries, and tools. He holds an MEng in Software Engineering and a PhD in Computer Science, both from Imperial College London. Dr. Spinellis serves as an elected member of the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors (2013–2015), and is a senior member of the ACM and the IEEE.

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Manolis Terrovitis

Senior Researcher, Athena Research Center

Manolis Terrovitis is a Senior Research in the Information Systems Management Institute of Research Center Athena. He has served as President of the Greek Accrediation System, as a member of the Board of Directors of Information Society S.A. and he has been a member of the Greek Sectoral Advisory Board for Information Technology. His research interests lie in data analytics for big data and data anonymization methods. He has developed the Amnesia data anonymization tool. Manolis has participated in numerous EU and National Research projects and he has been the PI in several of them. His research work has been published in some of the most prestigious venues of data management like PVLDB, ICDE, TKDE etc.

Panagiotis Tsiamyrtzis

Associate Professor, Dept. of Statistics, AUEB, Greece and Associate Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Panagiotis Tsiamyrtzis received the BS degree in Mathematics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He obtained the MS and PhD degrees in Statistics from the University of Minnesota, U.S.A., where he worked as visiting faculty. In 2004, he joined the Department of Statistics at the Athens University of Economics and Business, where he is currently Associate Professor. His research interests include Bayesian statistical process control (quality control), statistical aspects of computer vision problems and applications of Bayesian statistics. He is the author of more than forty refereed research papers and recipient of “best paper” awards in two conferences (American Statistical Association & European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics). As of 2011, he is also a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, TX, U.S.A.

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Emmanouil Zachariadis

Associate Professor, Dept. of Management Science & Technology, AUEB

Emmanouil Zachariadis is an Associate Professor of Management Science & Quantitative Methods at the Athens University of Economics and Business, School of Business, Department of Management Science and Technology. He has received a Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), and an MSc in Computing Science from the Imperial College of London. His doctoral studies aimed at solving operational research problems via computational optimization methods and were carried out at the School of Chemical Engineering of NTUA. His research interests focus on: (a) Development of mathematical programming models and computational optimization methods for operational research problems; (b) Management of transportation networks, freight transportation & distribution logistics systems, (c) Production and service operations management, and (d) Study and minimization of the environmental impact of transportation logistics. His publication record includes 20 articles in journals (with Impact Factor – Web of Science) in the areas of Management Science, Operations Research, and Supply Chain Management. He has successfully participated in several European and National research projects on the above-mentioned scientific fields. His teaching experience involves both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the areas of quantitative methods, operational research and supply chain optimization.