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Contact Info
Department of Statistics and Insurance Science,
University of Piraeus
Information Management Group,
Department of Informatics,
University of Piraeus
Office: Univ. Piraeus, Building at Gr. Lambraki 126, Room n. 601. Office hours: Wed: 11-12, Thu: 14-15
Mail: 126 Gr. Lambraki Str., GR-18534 Athens, Greece
Email: npelekis "at" unipi "dot" gr
Phone: (+30) 210-4142428
Homepage: http://infolab.cs.unipi.gr/people/npelekis/
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› Short bio
Currently (since Jan.2011), I am Lecturer at the Department of Statistics and Insurance Science., University of Piraeus
I am also member of the Information Management Group of the Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus.
Born in 1975, I received my B.Sc. degree from the Computer Science Department of the University of Crete (1998).
I have subsequently joined the Department of Computation in the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) to pursue my M.Sc. in Information Systems Engineering (1999) and my Ph.D. in Moving Object Databases (2002).
From 2003 till 2010 I was Postdoc researcher at Information Management Group.
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› Research interests
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My research activity takes place within the Information Management Group of the Department of Informatics
and focuses primarily on the following fields:
Knowledge Discovery in Data – KDD, Data Mining: Classification, cluster analysis, pattern representation and management, machine learning
Database & DataWarehouse Management: query processing and optimization, spatial / spatiotemporal database management
Geographical / Mobile Information Systems: Location-based systems and services in mobile environments
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› Scholarships & Awards
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1999 - 2002: Ph.D fellowship from UMIST.
1998: My MSc dissertation was awarded the unique distinction from the Department of Computation.
2009: Our paper “Clustering Trajectories of Moving Objects in an Uncertain World”, In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’09), has won the best application paper award.
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