Short Bio
I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the Information Technologies Institute (ITI) of the Center for Research and Technology, Hellas (CERTH), where I am a member of the Multimedia Knowledge & Social Media Analytics Laboratory (MKLAB).
I hold a PhD in Artificial Intelligence (2011) from the Dept. of Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. I also hold a BSc degree in Mathematics (2003) from the Dept. of Mathematics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and an MSc in Computer Studies (2004) from the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex, United Kingdom.
My research interests involve Semantic Technologies, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Non-Monotonic/Defeasible Reasoning and Information Visualization.
Positions
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2013–PresentResearcher
Information Technologies Institute (ITI)
Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH) -
2011–2013Research Assistant
School of Science & Technology
International Hellenic University -
2005–2010Research Associate
Department of Informatics
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Latest Updates
August 2018beAWARE Ontology v1.0 Publicly Available
The beAWARE ontology for crisis management is now publicly available on GitHub.
June 2018Article Accepted @ Journal of Web Semantics
Our article on the SemaDrift suite of tools for measuring semantic drift in ontologies got accepted at the Journal of Web Semantics!
May 2018Project SUITCEYES featured in CERTH’s newsletter
How can a smart garment support people with deafblindness? Our H2020 project SUITCEYES is featured in CERTH’s bimonthly newsletter.
May 2018Our Paper among the Top 3 Research Papers @ ISCRAM’18
We are very proud that our paper on the "Sensor to Decision Chain" in Crisis Management was selected among the top 3 research papers at ISCRAM 2018!
Selected Publications
Here are some selected publications of mine.
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Ongoing and completed projects

SUITCEYES
Smart, User-friendly, Interactive, Tactual, Cognition-Enhancer that Yields Extended Sensosphere
H2020 ICT RIA 2018-2020
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beAWARE
Enhancing decision support and management services in extreme weather climate events.
H2020 DRS, 2017-2020
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ROBORDER
Autonomous swarm of heterogenous robots for border surveillance
H2020-SEC-20-BES-2016, 2017-2020
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TENSOR
reTriEval and aNalysis of heterogeneouS online content for TerrOrist activity Recognition
H2020 IA, 2016-2019
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PERICLES
Promoting and Enhancing Reuse of Information throughout the Content Lifecycle taking account of Evolving Semantics.
FP7 ICT Call 9
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