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Christos Tryfonopoulos currently serves as an Associate Professor and Head of the Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of the Peloponnese. He is also a member of the Software & Database Systems (SoDa) Lab. He holds a PhD and an MSc in Computer Engineering from the Dept. of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete and a BSc in Computer Science from Dept. of Computer Science, University of Crete. He previously held positions as an Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications and a Lecturer at the Dept. Computer Science & Technology, both at University of the Peloponnese.
Before joining University of the Peloponnese, Christos was leading (between 2006 - 2009) the P2P and Information Management research area at the Databases and Information Systems Department, at Max-Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbruecken, Germany, participating in projects and leading basic and applied research in the areas of data/information management, distributed systems, and digital libraries. As a group leader he was also supervising PhD, MSc, and BSc students enrolled in the corresponding programs at the Computer Science Department, at University of Saarland (voted as the top Computer Science Department in Germany for several consecutive years). Prior to joining the Max-Planck Institute in Germany, Christos had also worked for a period of 6 years as a research associate at the Intelligent Systems Lab, at the Dept. of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete.
Christos' research interests include data/information management, large-scale distributed systems, digital libraries, and data/user anonymity. He has published more than 80 papers in book chapters, top-ranked international journals, and highly selective, peer-reviewed international conferences and workshops. His publication record includes highly prestigious journals and conferences in the area of information management such as TOIS, TKDE, SIGIR, SIGMOD, ICDE, EDBT, ECIR and others. Apart from his highly selective publication record, the international impact of his work is also demonstrated by his extensive community service as a editor/reviewer/program committee member of more than 50 different venues including top-ranked journals/conferences. Moreover, his teaching record is extensive (more than 15 different under-/post-graduate courses) with courses spanning from big data management, to artificial intelligence, data mining, information retrieval, and web technologies. His expertise in the field is also demonstrated by three best paper awards/nominations at international conferences, a prestigious DELOS Award in Digital Library technologies (prize 4000 EUR), and two scholarships he has received from the national scholarship foundation (IKY). He is also a given a wide range of invited talks including universities and research centers in Germany (MPII, L3S), the Netherlands (CWI), Belgium (ERA), Cyprus (UoC), Italy (BiCi), Austria (TUWien), and Saudi Arabia (KAUST).
Christos is currently supervising 5 PhD students (has successfully supervised 2 PhD students), 17 MSc students (has successfully supervised 19 MSc students), and 5 BSc students (has successfully supervised 31 BSc students). He is also serving in the steering committee of the MSc in Computer Science organized by the Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of the Peloponnese, and has served (between 2018-2019) as the Director of the joint MSc program in Space Science Technologies and Applications, between the University of the Peloponnese and the National Observatory of Athens.
Additionally, Christos has an extensive experience and an active involvement in research and development projects; he has lead and participated in 13 competitive EU (HORIZON 2020, EU 5th and 6th Framework Programme IST/FET) and national (GSRT, NSRF, and other public bodies like the Attikon Hospital and the Hellenic Society for Chemotherapy) projects. Currently, Christos is currently leading one national and one institutional project at the University of the Peloponnese, is participating in two HORIZON 2020 and one nationally funded project, and is actively serving as an external evaluator for EU (Η2020 FET-Open) and national (NSRF) projects.