Education

2008, PhD in Data Mining

• Thesis: "Similarity Issues in Data Mining - Methodologies and Techniques". [English version][Greek version]
• Supervisor: Prof. Yannis Theodoridis.
• Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Greece.

2003, MSc in Computer Science

• Thesis: "Data mining from news data and association with real data" [Greek version]
• Supervisor: Prof. Dimitrios Christodoulakis.
• Computer Engineering and Informatics Department (CEID), University of Patras, Greece.

2001, Diploma in Computer Engineering & Informatics

• Thesis: "Modeling and improvement of human ability in strategy games" [Greek version]
• Prof. Eleytherios Kirousis. Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dimitrios Kalles
• Computer Engineering and Informatics Department (CEID), University of Patras, Greece.

Scolarships, Awards, Funding

• 2020-2024: Network Coordinator & Co-PI for the European Training Network "NoBIAS: Artificial Intelligence without Bias" funded by the EU. More >>
• 2019-2023: Co-PI for the project "BIAS in big data decision making" funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. More >>
• 2018: Best Student Paper award at IEEE Int’l Conference on Big Knowledge (ICBK'18).
• 2017-2019: Co-PI for the project "Opinion Stream Classification with Ensembles and Active leaRners - OSCAR" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). More >>
• 2018: Distinguished Senior Program Committee member for International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'18).
• December 2017: NVIDIA Research Grant.
• March 2017: Joined AcademiaNet-Expert Database for Outstanding Female Academics nominated by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Check my AcademiaNet profile.
• 2010-2011: Postdoct scholarship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Host: Prof. Hans-Peter Kriegel at LMU, Munich.
• 2007: 1st price in the National Innovation 2006 Competition organized by Otenet, the major telecommunication provider of Greece. The winning team consisted of me and Nikos.
• February-March 2007: research scholarship from the KO-RFID project to work with Prof. Myra Spiliopoulou at University of Magdeburg, Germany.
• 2003 - 2005: PhD scholarship from HERACLETOS EPEAEK II Programme (2003-2005) supported by the Greek Ministry of Education and the EU.
• 2002: Performance scholarship from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation during my MSc studies.

Invited talks, Keynotes, Tutorials, etc

• 18 December 2020: Invited talk on "Bias in AI-systems: A multi-step approach.", 2nd Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable AI, co-located with the International Conference on Natural Language Generation. Check my slides.
• 24-29 June 2018, Schloss Dagstuhl. Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop "10 years of Web Science: Closing the Loop". Check my lighting talk.
• 20.10.2017: Invited talk on "Learning with limited labels (over streams).", 4th Int. Alexandria Workshop, Hannover, Germany. Check my slides.
• 29.9.2017: Invited talk on "Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Content", EUMade4All Workshop, Hannover, Germany. Check my slides.
• 29.9.2017: Invited talk on "A Machine Learning Primer", Applied Machine Learning (AMA) Workshop, Hannover, Germany. Check my slides.
• 21.9.2017: Participating in the ``Ethics and Professionalism in the age of Social Data'' panel, held at ICDM 2017, New Orleans, USA.
• 11.9.2017: Keynote talk on "Data Augmentation for Machine Learning", KDML 2017, Rostock, Germany.
• 19.03.2017: Talk at CEBIT, "Fairness and Transparency in Big Data Scenarios", Hannover, Germany
• 17.03.2017: Facultaetklausur LUH, "Machine Learning for Big Data Streams", Goslar, Germany
• 09.02.2017: Invited talk at TU Dortmund, "Learning over High Dimensional Data Streams", Dortmund, Germany
• March 2015: Guest blog post on "Information Hunting: The Many Faces of Recommendations for Data Exploration", appeared at SIGMOD blog.

Service to the community

Organizing Committee

• Poster, demo and application co-chair for CIKM 2020.
• PC-chair for KDML'19, the annual German Machine Learning and Data Mining community meeting, co-located with LWDA 2019. The meeting will take place from September 30, 2019 to October 2, 2019, at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
• Co-organizer for EDML 2019, 1st Workshop on Evaluation and Experimental Design in Data Mining and Machine Learning, co-located with SIAM SDM 2019 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
• Co-organizing the Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop "10 years of Web Science: Closing the Loop", 24-29 June 2018, Schloss Dagstuhl. Check my lighting talk.
• Publicity co-chair for ICDM 2017, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series.
• Co-organizer for BASNA 2014, Business Applications of Social Network Analysis, co-located with ICDM 2014.
• Co-organizer for BASNA 2013, Business Applications of Social Network Analysis, co-located with ASONAM 2013.
• Co-organizer for BASNA 2012, Business Applications of Social Network Analysis, co-located with ASONAM 2012.

Program Committee

• ICDM 2019, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining.
• IJCAI 2018 (senior PC), International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Also, IJCAI 2017.
• AAAI-20 Emerging Track on AI for Social Impact AAAI 2018, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
• KDD 2017, ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
• SDM 2020, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining. Also, SDM19, SDM18.
• ADBIS 2017, European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems.
• DM4OG 2017, Workshop on Data Mining for Oil and Gas, co-located with SDM 2017.
• CIKM 2017, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. Also, CIKM 2016, CIKM 2015, CIKM 2014.
• ECML/PKDD 2017, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Also, ECML/PKDD 2016, ECML/PKDD 2015, ECML/PKDD 2014, ECML/PKDD 2011.
• SAC Data Stream Track 2018, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Data Streams Track Also, SAC DS 2017, SAC DS 2015, SAC DS 2013, SAC DS 2012, SAC DS 2011.
• SAC Data Mining Track 2018, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Data Mining Track. Also, SAC DM 2016, SAC DM 2012.
• IDA 2016, 15th International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis.
• PCI 2014, 18th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics. Also, PCI 2012.
• ICTAI 2012, 24th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence..
• KDML 2011, Workshop on Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining and Machine Learning, collocated with LWA 2011.
• BASNA 2011, Business Applications of Social Network Analysis, collocated with IMSAA 2011.

Working experience

• March 2016 -: Associate Professor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Leibniz Universitaet Hannover.
• Februar 2010-Februar 2016: PostDoctoral Researcher, Database Systems Group, Institute for Informatics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich.
• 2009: Data Mining Expert at the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE)
• 2003-2008: Research Assistant at Infolab, Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus.
• 2006-2008: R&D Engineer at Data And Knowledge Engineering Group, RD3, CTI
• 2002-2005: Software Engineer at Further Education & Training Sector, CTI
• 2001: Software Engineer at Ahead RM
• 1999 - 2000: Programmer at Data And Knowledge Engineering Group, RD3, CTI

Professional memberships

• Member of the AG-Lehre, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Leibniz Universitaet Hannover.
• Member of the AG-Chancenvielfalt, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Leibniz Universitaet Hannover.
• Member of ACM
• Member of IEEE
• Member of Greek ACM Council on Women in Computing Chapter

NeeMo - News Monitoring Startup

After winning the 1st prize in National Innovation 2006 Competition organized by Otenet, we (me and Nikos) released NeeMo, an AI-based news monitoring tool and its personalized counterpart, myNeeMo. We closed down the startup, but you can see an early presentation here (in GR).