Dimitris N. Kotsakos

Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science
Lab A23
Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Email: dimkots by email provider gmail dot com

I..

..am Dimitris
..am a first year Ph.D. student, under the supervision of Prof. Dimitrios Gunopulos
..am given the opportunity to work at the MaDgIK lab of DIT, UoA among numerous exceptional people
..am a regular collaborator with Manolis, Alexis and Giorgos
..struggle to maintain an up-to-date cv
..have some passions, explore if interested
..thank you for having visited my personal webpage!!

 

Education

4/2009 - today Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science
Area: "Web and Opinion Mining applied in Social Networks
and Web Streams"
Advisor: Dimitrios Gunopulos (more)
 Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications,
University of Athens, Greece
10/2007 - today M.Sc. in Advanced Information Systems
Advisor: Stathes P. Hadjiefthymiades (more)		 Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications,
University of Athens, Greece
9/2002 - 9/2007   B.Sc. in Computer Science and Telecommunications  
Advisor: Stathes P. Hadjiefthymiades (more)
 Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications,
University of Athens, Greece

Academic

01/2009 - today Involved in the SemsorGrid4Env Research Project
05/2008 - 12/2008: Involved in the IPAC Research Project
10/2008 - 03/2008:   Involved in the GEANT2 Research Project
06/2007- today: Member of: Pervasive Computing Research Group and MaDgIK Research Group
2007-2010: Teaching Assistant in various undergraduate courses including
"Data Mining Techniques", "Object Oriented Programming", "Software Development",
"System Programming", "Operating Systems" and "Introduction to Programming"

Publications

  1. Od. Sekkas, D. Piguet , C. Anagnostopoulos, D. Kotsakos , G. Alyfantis , C. Kassapoglou - Faist and S. Hadjiefthymiades, "Probabilistic Information Dissemination for MANETs : the IPAC Approach", Proc. of the 20th CNIT Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications (Tyrrhenian 2009), Sardinia, Italy, September 2009.

  2. T. Lappas, B. Arai, M. Platakis, D. Kotsakos and D. Gunopulos, "On Burstiness-Aware Search for Document Sequences", Proc. of the 15th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2009), pp. 477-486, Paris, France, July 2009. (pdf)

  3. M.Platakis, D. Kotsakos and D. Gunopulos, "Searching for Events in the Blogosphere", Proc. of the 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009), pp.1225-1226, Madrid, Spain, April 2009. (pdf)

  4. M.Platakis, D. Kotsakos and D. Gunopulos, "Discovering Hot Topics in the Blogosphere", Proc. of the 2nd Panhellenic Scientific Student Conference on Informatics, Related Technologies and Applications (EUREKA 2008), pp. 122-132, Samos, Greece, August 2008. Best Paper Award. (pdf)