Short Info
I hold a B.Sc. in Informatics and a M.Sc. in Information Systems from the Department of Informatics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). Since April 2010 I am a PhD Student in the area of Machine Learning and Data Mining at the same department and member of the Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery (MLKD) group. Since Janouary 2012 I also work as a Research Associate at the Multimedia Group of the Information Technologies Institute (CERTH-ITI).
Contact
- Email: espyromi [at] csd [dot] auth [dot] gr
Research Interests
- multi-target prediction (classification/regression)
- data stream classification
- text mining
- image annotation-retrieval
- recommender systems
Curriculum Vitae
My CV in English (Last update: 6/3/2013) Thanks to Ted Pavlic for the latex template.
Publications
A full list of my publications along with their accompanying documents and media can be found here.
Awards
I have participated in several Data Mining contests with some very good results:
| Contest | Place |
|---|---|
| ECML/PKDD 2011 Discovery Challenge - Cold start recommendations task [info] | 2nd |
| ISMIS 2011 Music Information Retrieval Contest - Music Instruments track [info] | 1st |
| ImageCLEF 2011(concept-based retrieval sub-task of the photo-annotation task) [info] | 1st |
| Data Mining Cup 2011 [info] | 7th |
| JRS 2012 [info] | 9th |
I recently received distinctions from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (see here) and the Greek Ministry of Education (see here) for the these achievements.