[Greek][English]

Nikos Mamoulis

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Ioannina
Tel: +30 2651008803
Fax: +30 2651007021
email: nikos at cs dot uoi dot gr

I received my 5-year Diploma From the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras in 1995 and my PhD from HKUST in 2000. I'm currently a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina. In the past I was a faculty member at the Department of Computer Science, University of Hong Kong.

Office hours

Tuesday 11:00-13:00.

Research Interests

Management and Analysis of complex data types (spatial, spatio-temporal, time-series, text, set-valued, graphs), big data management and analysis, data privacy and security, uncertain data management.

Publications

See here or check out my DBLP record.

Courses

ΜΥΥ105: Introduction to Programming
ΜΥΥ205: Object-oriented Programming
ΜΥΕ041: Complex Data Management
L02: Management and Analysis of Non-Traditional Data

Current projects

2022-2025: In-memory Spatial Analytics Made Scalable (MESA), HFRI Research Projects to support Faculty Members and Researchers, PI
2020-2023: Management of Real-time Energy Data (MORE), H2020-ICT-2018-20 / H2020-ICT-2020-1, senior researcher
2020-2023: Smart City Bus Platform, ERDF and Greek national funds, Research-Create-Innovate, T2EDK-02848, PI and Coordinator
2019-2023: Proximiot - Proximity Marketing Platform, ERDF and Greek national funds, Research-Create-Innovate, T1EDK-04810, co-I

Past research grants and awards

2002-2005: Storage schemes and search algorithms for high dimensional data, HKU 7380/02E (from Hong Kong RGC)
2003-2005: Evaluation of Proximity Queries over Spatial Road Networks, HKU 7149/03E (from Hong Kong RGC)
2004-2006: Periodicity of movement in spatiotemporal databases, HKU 7142/04E (from Hong Kong RGC)
2006-2008: Continuous Constraint Query Evaluation for Spatio-temporal Data Sequences, HKU 7160/05E (from Hong Kong RGC)
2007-2009: Evaluation of Advanced Spatial Queries in Sensor Networks, HKU 7155/06E (from Hong Kong RGC)
2008-2010: Top-k Dominating Queries on Multi-dimensional Data, HKU 714907E (from Hong Kong RGC)
2009-2011: Privacy Preservation in the Publication of Data Sequences, HKU 715108E (from Hong Kong RGC)
2010-2012: Algorithms for Large-Scale Matching Problems, HKU 715509E (from Hong Kong RGC)
2011-2014: Durable Queries in Temporal and Spatio-temporal Databases, HKU 715711E (from Hong Kong RGC)
2012-2015: Spatio-textual Joins, HKU 714712E (from Hong Kong RGC)
2013-2016: Efficient Management of Geosocial Data, HKU 715413E (from Hong Kong RGC)
2015-2017: Efficient Management of Spatial Semantics in RDF Knowledge Bases, 17205814 (from Hong Kong RGC)
2015-2017: Location Based Suggestion of Keyword Queries (LBKQS), MSCA-IF-2014-EF:Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF)

Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2008-2009, University of Hong Kong

Best Paper Award @ SSTD 2015

Test of Time Award @ MDM 2022

Professional Activities

Regular reviewer for international journals including: ACM TODS, IEEE TKDE, VLDB Journal, ACM TKDD, ACM TOIT, ACM TWEB, ACM TSAS, Information Systems, Information Sciences, International Journal of GIS, Geoinformatica, KAIS, ACM Transactions on Algorithms, Theoretical Computer Science, Pattern Analysis and Applications Journal, Communications of ACM, etc.

PC Membership:
2025: EDBT (meta-reviewer)
2024: SIGMOD, ICDE (Associate Chair)
2023: SIGMOD, ICDE, PAKDD (Senior PC member), SSTD
2022: SIGMOD (demo track), ICDE (vice chair), EDBT, PAKDD (Senior PC member), VLDB PhD workshop
2021: SIGMOD, ICDE, EDBT, SSTD
2020: SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE (vice chair), PAKDD (Senior PC member), GeoRich@SIGMOD
2019: ICDE, EDBT, SIGMOD, KDD, PAKDD (Senior PC member), MDM, SSTD
2018: ICDE, EDBT, SIGMOD, VLDB, PAKDD (Senior PC member), ACM GIS (Senior PC member), DASFAA (Senior PC member)
2017: ICDE, SIGMOD, KDD, DASFAA, PAKDD (Senior PC member), SSTD, VLDB
2016: ICDE, SIGMOD, KDD, PAKDD (Senior PC member), GeoRich@SIGMOD, VLDB, CIKM
2015: ICDE, EDBT, SIGMOD, KDD, PAKDD (Senior PC member), CIKM (PC vice chair), DASFAA (Senior PC member), GeoRich@SIGMOD, SSTD, LocalRec@RecSys
2014: ICDE (Track Chair), SIGMOD, VLDB, KDD, SSDBM, CIKM (PC vice chair), PAKDD (Senior PC member), DASFAA
2013: ICDE, SIGMOD (Demo Track), SDM, ACM GIS, KDD, CIKM, SSTD, MDM, PAKDD (Senior PC member), DASFAA, DBRank@ICDE
2012: ICDE, KDD (Senior PC member), ACM GIS (Senior PC member), DEXA, HDMS, DASFAA, CIKM, DBRank@ICDE, HDMS, ASONAM
2011: EDBT, DASFAA, VLDB, MDM, SSTD, SIGMOD (demo track), DEXA, LBSN@GIS, DBRank@ICDE, ACM GIS, CIKM, MEDI, HDMS
2010: ICDE, SIGMOD, MDM, DEXA, DASFAA, SBBD, LBSN@GIS, CIKM, ICDM
2009: EDBT, ICDE, VLDB, SBBD, DASFAA, MDM, DEXA, SDM, PPDA, ADBIS, ASONAM, ICDM, COMAD, ACM GIS, CIKM (PC vice chair)
2008: ICDE, DBRank@ICDE, MDM, IADIS ECDM, DaWaK, KDD, HDMS, IDEAS, ACM GIS, ICDM (PC vice chair)
2007: ICDE, DBRank, STDM, MDM, IADIS ECDM, DaWaK, SSTDM-VAM, HPDMA, KDD, SSTD, HDMS, ECML/PKDD, VLDB, ADBIS, ACM GIS, IDEAS, ICDM (PC vice chair), DUNE, SSTDM
2006: WAIM, DaWaK, KDD, VLDB, HDMS, CIKM, ICDM
2005: ICDE, ICDM, COMAD 2005b,
2004: ACM GIS, HDMS, ICDM
2003: SSDBM

Conference Organization:
General co-Chair of the 2023 EDBT/ICDT Joint Conference (EDBT 2023, ICDT 2023)
Workshops co-Chair of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2022)
PC co-Chair of the 20th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2019)
PC chair of the 12th Hellenic Data Management Symposium (HDMS 2014)
Demonstrations co-chair of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2014)
PC co-Chair of the 19th International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD 2013)
Tutorials co-Chair of the 27th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2011)
PC co-Chair of the ICDE 2010 PhD Workshop
PC co-Chair of the Eleventh International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD 2009)
Co-organizer of the Third International Workshop on Ranking in Databases (DBRank 2009)
Publicity Chair of the 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2009)
General Chair of the 20th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2008)
Co-organizer of the 1st International Workshop on Spatial and Spatio-temporal Data Mining (SSTDM06)

Editorial Service:
ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems, Associate Editor, 2022-.
Knowledge and Information Systems, An International Journal, Associate Editor, 2015-2022.
The VLDB Journal, Associate Editor, 2011-2017.
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Associate Editor, 2010-2014.
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), Associate Editor, 2013, 2023, 2024.
Geoinformatica Journal (Springer), Editorial Board Member, 2007- .
Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Systems, Field editor, 2008.

Supervision of PhD students

Current

Achilleas Michalopoulos
Thanasis Georgiadis
Konstantinos Lambropoulos
Dimitrios Tsitsigkos

Graduated

George Christodoulou, PhD graduated 2023, now post-doc at TU Delft
Chrysanthi Kosyfaki, PhD graduated 2023, now post-doc at HKU
DING Danhao PhD graduated 2021
SHAN Caihua, PhD graduated 2020, now at Microsoft Research Asia (Shanghai)
QIAN Yuqiu, PhD graduated 2019, now at Amazon Web Services (Shenzhen)
HUANG Zhipeng, PhD graduated 2019, now at Citadel Securities (HK)
LI Hui, PhD graduated 2018, now associate professor at Xiamen University
LΥU Ziyu, PhD graduated 2016, now associate professor at School of Cyber Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University (Shenzhen)
QI Shuyao, PhD graduated 2016, now at Microsoft Redmond, WA
TU Wenting, PhD graduated 2016, now associate professor at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SHUFE)
SHI Jieming, PhD graduated 2015, now assistant professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University
CAI Yilun, PhD graduated 2015, now at Millenium (HK)
WANG Hao, PhD, graduated 2014, now Professor at Wuhan University
GE Shen, PhD, graduated 2012, now at Microsoft Beijing
LI Jing, PhD, graduated 2012, now at Millenium (HK)
ZHANG Shiming (Simon), PhD, graduated 2011, now at Huawei's Noah's Ark Lab
U Leong Hou (Kamiru) , PhD, graduated 2010, now associate professor at University of Macau
Panagiotis Karras, PhD, graduated 2007, now professor at the University of Copenhagen
CAO Huiping, PhD, graduated 2006, now professor at New Mexico State University
YIU Man Lung (Ken), PhD, graduated 2006, now associate professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Supervision of Masters students

Current

George Kotsinas
Kelly Basiakou

Graduated

Christodoulos Asiminidis, MSc graduated 2021
George Christodoulou, MSc graduated 2020
Chrysanthi Kosyfaki, MSc graduated 2019
Dimitris Mpestas, MSc graduated 2017
Dimitris Serbos, MSc graduated 2017
LI Hui, MPhil graduated 2015
TANG Yu, MPhil, graduated 2014
YU Wei, MPhil, graduated 2013
ZHANG Ye, MPhil, graduated 2010
LIN Zhifeng (Arthur), MPhil, graduated 2009
SIU Wing Yan (Angela), MPhil, graduated 2008
TAM Ming Wai, MPhil, graduated 2008
DAI Xiangyuan, MPhil, graduated 2006
CHENG Kit Hung (David), MPhil, graduated 2005

Collaborators

Panagiotis Bouros, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
David W.L. Cheung, University of Hong Kong
Ben Kao, University of Hong Kong
Reynold Cheng, University of Hong Kong
Georgios J. Fakas, Uppsala University
Manolis Terrovitis, IMIS, Athena