~teogeorgiou

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data

Birth date: November 27, 1987
Birth place: Ithaca NY, United States of America
Also known as: Theodore or Teo
Occupation: Computer Science undergraduate student

Education

2010:
Accepted for MSc/PhD studies at the Department of Computer Science: University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
2005-2010:
Undergraduate student: Department of Informatics and Telecommunications,
University of Athens

G.P.A.: 9.04/10 (Honors)
Ranking among classmates: ~1%

B.Sc. Thesis:
Title: Discovering Topics of Interest between Users on Web Discussion Boards
Advisor: Professor Yannis Ioannidis
2005:
Graduation from 2nd High School of Voula, Athens (Greece), with graduation grade 18.5/20 (Honors) and acceptance to the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications.
2002:
Graduation from 2nd Secondary School of Voula, Athens (Greece), with graduation grade 18.5/20 (Honors).

Honors and Awards

2010: Best Undergraduate Poster Award, SIGMOD 2010 conference.
2010: UCSB Department of Computer Science Systems Research Fellowship Award.
2010: One of the six winners of the SIGMOD Undergraduate Research Poster Competition.
2002-2005: Awards for excellent performance and for ranking first among classmates in several classes of High and Secondary School.

Research Interests

Data Mining and Information Extraction from the World Wide Web
Internet Technologies, W3C
Human-Computer Interaction

My research interests

Publications

Publication list

Summer Schools Attended

2008:
Attended and successfully completed "The Onassis Foundation Science Lecture Series 2008 in Computer Science on Embedded Network Systems: Theory and Applications", Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete, July 21-25.

Teaching Assistanship

Introduction to Programming, instructed by professor Panagiotis Stamatopoulos (2006-2010).
Object Oriented Programming, instructed by professor Izambo Karali (2006-2010).

Professional Experience

Member of the Management of Data Information and Κnowledge Group (MaDgIK), University of Athens.
Member of the CGAL programming team.
Development of a C++ module for the computation of the Visibility Polygon. Professor and advisor: Ioannis Emiris
Lecturer and Co-organizer of the first Web Development Workshop of the FOSS Community (University of Athens). (11/27/09, 12/11/09)
Lecturer at the first Workshop of the FOSS Community with subject "An Introduction to GNU/Linux". My presentation was entitled "Image Manipulation using GIMP". (04/08/09)
Developer, designer and (former) administrator of the Student Union website (Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens): http://studclub.di.uoa.gr
Administrator at the support forum of the 1st year course "Introduction to Programming" and 2nd year course "Object Oriented Programming", (Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens).
Part-time work at the "Pyrsos" school-supporting private classes: Class timetable scheduling.

Participation in Research Projects

Member of the research-assistance team in the project "Optical Radiation and Polymers" (15/2/2007 - 15/7/2007)
Worked on: Computer and software support.
Project of the Institutional Project EPEAEK "ARCHIMEDES II" at the Technological Educational Institute of Crete. MIS number: 86455
Link: http://eed.stef.teicrete.gr/activities/Ακτινοβολία%20και%20Πολυμερή.doc

Significant Projects from Courses

2009:
- Co-Developer and project manager of an object oriented compiler, for the "Compilers" spring 2009 course. link
- Co-Developer and project manager of an e-shop website, using java, for the "Internet Application Technologies" spring 2009 course. link
2008:
- Implementation of a Visibility Polygon algorithm, using python and the CGAL geometry library, for the "Computational Geometry" fall 2008 course. link
2007:
- Implementation of a Skip List template library, using C++, for the "Operating Systems" fall 2007 course. link
- Co-Developer and project manager of an IRC Server, using C++, for the "System Programming" spring 2007 course. link
- Co-Developer of an ISAM-indexed DBMS, using C, for the "Software Development" spring 2007 course. link
2006:
- Developer of a walking-figure project, using OpenGL and C++, for the "Graphics I" fall 2006 course. link

Informatics Skills and Expertise

Programming languages:
C, C++ (object oriented), Python (object oriented), Java (object oriented & web), PHP (web), JavaScript (web), Prolog (logical) and Haskell (functional)
Web development:
HTML/XHTML (XML), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), PHP, Java (using Java Beans & Java Servlets), JavaScript, AJAX
Web design:
Gimp, Adobe Dreamweaver
Operating systems:
Apple Mac OS X, Linux Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows, SUN Solaris
Other:
MySQL (SQL queries), Shell programming (bourne, bash, tcsh), System calls and system programs (UNIX), Graphic library OpenGL (C/C++), Geometry library CGAL (C++/python), Borland C++ Builder for Windows' applications

Languages

English: Certificate of Proficiency in English, 2007 University of Michigan and Certificate in Advanced English, 2006 University of Cambridge
French: Basic level
Greek: Native language

Social Activities and Interests

Blogging and micro-blogging.
Elected: president (2008-2009), vice-president (2007-2008) and cashier (2006-2007) of the Student Union, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens.
President of the independent student party F.P.P. (2007-2009): http://www.di.uoa.gr/~fpp
Supporter of the Free and Open Source Software Community, University of Athens.