The Team.

This is the place where our Research Group is presented. Find out a short Bio for our members.

DaMA was founded in 2016

The Data Mining and Analytics research group was set up in 2016 by As. Prof. Christos Tjortjis at the School of Science and Technology, International Hellenic University. Currently, it comprises 15 members, including one post-doctoral researcher. 5 PhD students and 9 MSc students.

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Professors

Christos Tjortjis

Christos Tjortjis

Associate Professor

Christos is the Dean of the School of Science and Technology, International Hellenic University and Associate Professor in Knowledge Discovery and Software Engineering systems. He is Programme Director for the MSc in Data Science the MSc in ICT systems, the MSc in Mobile and Web Computing, the MSc in Cybersecurity,and theMSc in Smart Cities and Communities at the International Hellenic University, School of Science & Technology. Formerly he was an adjunct Associate Professor at the University of IoanninaDept. of Computer Science & Engineering, an adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Western MacedoniaDept. Engineering Informatics and Telecommunications, a tenured Lecturer at the University of Manchester, Schools of Computer Science and Informatics, as well as UMIST, Department of Computation and an external moderator for the Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham Business School

Studies

He holds a DEng(Hons) in Computer Engineering and Informatics (5 year studies) from the Department of Computer Engineering & Informatics at the University of Patras, and a BSc(Hons) in Law (4 year studies) from the Department of Law at the Democritus University of Thrace, in Greece. He also holds an MPhil in Computation from UMIST and a PhD in Informatics from the University of Manchester, U.K.

Research

His focal research area is data mining, decision support, software engineering and smart cities, and his aim is to advance the use of data mining in domains such as programming languages and novel types of heterogeneous data. His research interests are in the areas of data, code and text mining, and software maintenance and quality, where he has published widely. His research objectives include bridging the gap between theories and applications of data mining, as well as establishing novel ways of retrieving information from data, text and source code.

Publications

He published over 80 papers in international referred journals and conferences, focusing on data mining algorithms, such as clustering, classification and association rules, and data mining applications in domains, such as software engineering, medicine, biology and smart cities. His work has been published in journals including Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, Software Quality Journal, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Information Systems, Computing, Information Systems Frontiers, WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Advances in Data Analysis and Classification, Methods of Information in Medicine, Data & Knowledge Engineering, Energies, AI magazine, Int’l Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, Applied Artificial Intelligence and international referred conferences such as IEEE ICTAI, IEEE COMPSAC, IEEE WETICE, IEEE SMC, KSEM, IEEE ITAB, IEEE APSEC, IEEE IWPC, CSMR and IDEAL.

Research projects

Christos led a number of research projects on software quality assurance using data mining, as well as on strategic maintenance and evolution of software. He was also involved as a principal investigator or co-investigator in a number of software and knowledge management projects.

Research Supervision

Christos supervises 5 PhD, and 9 MSc students.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Paraskevas Koukaras
Paraskevas Koukaras

Postdoctoral Researcher

Social Media Types, Models and Capabilities

Paraskevas Koukaras is a Ph.D. candidate in Social Media Analytics and Data Science in International Hellenic University, School of Science and Technology. He has received his MSc in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Systems from International Hellenic University (2017) and his BSc in Computer Science from ATEI of Thessaloniki (2013). On his spare time, he works as an IT consultant and programming teacher in the private sector. His full-time job is, research assistant at Information and Technology Institute of Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas (CERTH) on Horizon 2020 projects. In addition, he is a member of Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society (EETN) while acting as a reviewer in various International Conferences.

PhD Candidates

Dimitris Rousidis
Dimitris Rousidis

PhD Candidate

Forecasting with Social Media Data

Dimitris Rousidis is an IT Instructor in various higher education institutes and lifelong learning seminars and an enrolled PhD candidate with the International Hellenic University (IHU). His current research is associated with social media analytics and the improvement of forecasting algorithms. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Physics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, a Bachelor’s in Library Science and Information Systems from IHU, a Master’s Degree in Computation from UMIST. He worked as a tutor in Databases modules (Oracle and NoSQL oriented) in all three years of the Computing course, at the DEI College, Thessaloniki, which is collaborating with the Northampton University, UK. He has worked as an IT lab assistant in courses, such as advanced databases and spreadsheets, digital signal processing, automation of library administration and web design at the two major Technological Educational Institutes of Northern Greece (Thessaloniki and Serres). For the past 13 years he has been working as a life-long educator in Second Chance Schools, Vocational Training Centres and Lifelong Learning Centres and Vocational Training Institutes. He is a Certified Valorisation Manager with the European Certification & Qualification Association (ECQA).

Vangelis Sarlis
Vangelis Sarlis

PhD Candidate

Data Mining for Sports Analytics

High experienced in Sports Analytics with career in basketball as player and important specialization in basketball advanced statistics. He is a professional (with more than 10 years’ experience) involved in a variety of Project budgeted from 10K to 4M euros. A solid and dependable professional with versatile experience in the IT sector, covering Consulting, Analytics, Project & Product Management, Marketing and Business Analysis. Vangelis is a PhD candidate in Data Mining for Sports Analytics, has received his MBA from ALBA Business School (2017), his MSc in Computing & IT from University of Sunderland (2013) and BSc in Physics Science from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2012). Before joining Intrasoft International S.A. (June 2018), he was part of OSeven S.A. regarding applications of computational intelligence in “big data” transportation problems and driving behavior analysis. He also worked in OTE – COSMOTE Mobile Telecommunications S.A., Globo Plc, and Entersoft S.A in various positions. During his career, he has experience in Startups and Corporate multicultural environments in fields of Telecom, ERP\CRM and Software development.

Nikos Stasinos
Nikos Stasinos

PhD Candidate

Data Science for Law

At present he works as Senior IT Solution Architect in the company he owns, as well as CEO/Co-Founder. He is carrying out his PhD studies in Data Science and is member of Data Mining and Analytics Research Group by investigating and exploring the field of Law. He has about 20 years of experience on development at high-risk projects concerning Telecoms, Banking, and Commercial sectors. He is certified in GDPR and as a Data Scientist he involved in many research cases. He is always ready to act in the most complicated projects. Education: PhD candidate in Data Science for Law at the International Hellenic University (2019-Now), MSC in Data Communication Systems at Brunel University (London 2008), BSc in Computer Science a Brunel University (London 2006). His professional experience has to do with complicated Projects in the financial sector which gives him the advantage of knowledge and skills about security in IT systems. All these years he had the ability to develop his talent and can handle a big number of IT projects. Public Organisations, Eurobank, Alpha Bank, Piraeus Bank, Cosmote, Vodafone, ICAP are some of the companies he collaborated with. He held various positions like Solution Architect, Business Developer Manager, Team Leader, Project Manager and Quality Evaluator of deliverable products in terms of security, speed, and coding. In his research, he is trying to improve and bind the Data Science with the Law Science to deliver results of how both Sciences are possible to detect violation of legislation by using technology.

Anestis Kousis
Anestis Kousis

PhD Candidate

Data Science for Smart Cities

Anestis Kousis is a Ph.D. candidate in Data Science for Smart Cities, in the International Hellenic University, School of Science and Technology. He has received his MSc in Education Sciences (Mathematics, Science and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT): Teaching and Learning) from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2017) and his BSc in Computer Science from Hellenic Open University (2015). He is a freelancer with more than 16 years of professional experience in Customer Services, as a part of FULGOR –Hellenic Cables S.A., Ful.Ge.Ca L.T.D., and General Cables-Orfanides Bros S.A. He has been working as an adult trainer for various educational institutions, such as IEK Alfa, Door Training and Consulting, Municipality of Pavlos Melas and Ministry of Education of Greece, teaching several subjects, such as Software Engineering, Databases, Data Analysis and Internet of Things.

Aristeidis Mystakidis
Aristeidis Mystakidis

PhD Candidate

Data Science for Smart Cities

PhD candidate in Data Science for Smart Cities, at the International Hellenic University, School of Science and Technology. He holds a Master of Engineering (MEng) in Electrical and Computer Engineering as 1st degree from Democritus Polytechnical University of Thrace, a Master in Business Administration (MBA) Degree and specialization in Operations Research from University of Macedonia and a Master of Science (MSc) focused in Mobile / Web Computing and Data Science from International Hellenic University.
In his professional experience, he worked as instructor/tutor at University’s Students Tutorial, as a Data Engineer at INTRACOM Constructions – Intrakat at SKG Airport, before joining EMISIA SA as Data Scientist/Engineer, mainly working directly with European Environmental Agency and Air Pollution, Transport, Noise and Industrial Pollution (ETC/ATNI) department.
Regarding his skills, he is a strong information technology professional with experience in Python, Java, SQL and database technologies, Machine and Deep Learning, Operations Research etc.

Giorgos Papageorgiou
Giorgos Papageorgiou

PhD Candidate

Data Science for Business Applications

PhD candidate in Data Science for Business Applications at the International Hellenic University, School of Science and Technology. He holds an MSc in Data Science from International Hellenic University and a BSc in Accounting and Finance from the University of Macedonia. His research interests are primarily in Data Science and its uses in Business, with strong professional skills in SQL, Python, Data Analysis, Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics. George also works for a multinational hospitality group as an E-Commerce Executive conducting data analysis and forecasting to generate data-driven market insights and communicate with partners. In addition, he is involved with the digital performance analysis of web analytics (Google, Meta-Facebook/Instagram, and Microsoft Bing Ads) and the maintenance of digital platforms and websites..

MSc Candidates

A. Ahmed – Securing IoT Devices in Smart City Environment using Machine Learning
G. Asderis – Sentiment analysis on twitter data
V.-S. Deeksha-Singh – A Hyper-localized Modeling Approach for Recognizing, Supporting and Developing a Smart City as an Antifragile Complex Adaptive System
W.A. Fadilah – Traffic prediction with data mining
E. Kapoteli – Sentiment Analysis Related to COVID-19 Vaccines
M. Karagkiozidou – Sentiment analysis on twitter data
G. Papageorgiou – Sports Analytics algorithms for performance prediction
I. Tourpeslis – Data mining for smart cities
M. Vlachos-Giovanopoulos – Forecasting with predictive social media analytics

Alumni

O. Nalmpantis – Movie Recommender System
L. Oikonomou – Mining Twitter data to Predict the USA 2016 election winner
I. Papikas – Human Rating System
T.-I. Theodorou – Traffic Prediction Techniques under Abnormal Traffic Conditions
C. Charisiadis – Data Mining on Source Code
D. Kalliantasis – Data mining for evaluating startups and forecasting stock fluctuations
L. Konstantopoulos – An automated tool for evaluating social media influencers
A. Paraskevopoulos – Product recommendation system
F. Touparis – Predicting stocks movement using social media analytics
K. Apostolou – Sports Analytics algorithms for performance prediction
K. Christantonis – Data mining for smart cities
G. Giaglis – Programmatic Automation & Yield Optimization on the Ad Exchange
I. Schoinas – Product Recommendation system
D. Tasios – Mining Traffic Data
V. Tsarapatsanis – Fake news detection
E. Tsiara – Forecasting with predictive social media analytics
D. Beleveslis – Heuristic Approach for Content Based Recommendation System Based on Feature Weighting and LSH
V. Chazan-Pantzalis – Sports Analytics Algorithms for Performance Prediction
I. Nasiara – The Impact of Twitter Sentiment on Ryanair’s Business Performance
V. Tsichli – Predicting Stock Market Movements Using Social Media and Machine Learning)
Y. Al-Dara – Electricity usage recommender system with limited input data
A. Avramidou – Building CO2 emissions prediction using Machine Learning/ Data mining
P. Belogianni – Sentiment analysis applied on a book recommendation system
C. Kaimakamis – Sports Analytics algorithms for NBA Champion Prediction
D. P. Kasseropoulos – Fake news detection in social media
P. Koudoumas – Sports Analytics algorithms for performance prediction
S. Liapis – Traffic Prediction in Smart Cities, Featuring the Impact of COVID-19
B.S.S. Naim – Big Data mining for smart cities
C. Nousi – Stock Market Prediction using Sentiment Analysis
V. Papanikolaou – Data mining for smart cities: Energy prediction for public buildings
O. Trasanidis – Decision making tool for smart cities