My name is
Georgios Valkanas and I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at the
Department of Informatics and Telecommunications (DIT),
University of Athens, working on
Knowledge Extraction from Distributed Environments, with Applications to Web and Streams. My advisor is Prof.
Dimitrios Gunopulos, co-advised by Prof.
Yannis Ioannidis and Assistant Prof.
Stathes Hadjiefthymiades.
I received my BSc from the DIT, UoA, Greece in 2007 and my MSc from the
Department of Informatics,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2009, specializing in Information Systems. I am a member of the
Knowledge Discovery in Databases Laboratory (KDDLab) and of the
Pervasive Computing Research Group (P-Comp). My main research interests are in the areas of
Web Mining,
Data Mining,
Ranking Algorithms,
Information Retrieval,
Information Extraction and
Databases (with a high degree of preference on multidimensional data). I am also interested in
Pervasive computing and algorithmic issues in
Sensor Networks and in the creation of applications combining concepts and techniques from the aforementioned areas.
My current research is funded by an "Heraclitus II" scholarship.
My CV is available in
Greek and in
English.
di {dot} uoa {dot} gr