Scientific Activities

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

§ Invited Talks in Workshops

1. 5th Workshop on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, 6 to 10 November 2017 at Ionian University.

2. Workshop on Network Biology/Integromics Bioinformatics – Applications Towards Medicine, 23-25 August 2017, Bergen

§ Invited Talks in Postgraduate Programs

1. 2017-2018 (Semester 1): 2 Invited lectures at the Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University of Thessaly. Courses taught: Big Data Mining and Analysis in Medicine and Biology (postgraduate)

2. 2017-2018 (Semester 1): 2 Invited lectures at Master's Program in Informatics for Life Sciences, University of Patras. Course taught: Basic Methods of Machine Learning and Data Mining (postgraduate)

§ Workshop Organization

1. 5th Workshop on Advances in High-Dimensional Big Data (Co-located with the IEEE Big Data 2020)

3. AI for the development of Decision Support Systems in Complex Diseases ((Co-located with Genedis 2020)

§ Session Chair in International Conferences

1. 21st International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN2020)

§ Supervising

o Currently supervising of three undergraduate students at Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University of Thessaly.

­ Manios Georgios: «Unsupervised Learning for Large Scale Data»

­ Eleni Papaleftheri: «Clustering of Large Scale Molecular Biology Data»

­ Marini Vlasia: «Visualization of Large Scale Molecular Biology Data»

o Currently supervising of three postgraduate students at Master of Science Bioinformatics and Neuroinformatics, Hellenic Open University

­ Adam Koletis: «Modelling Cellular Complex Systems using Graph Theory»

­ Eleni Thanou: «Identifying Network Biomarkers for Complex Diseases using Omics data»

­ Afrodite Agorastou: «Gene Regulatory Networks Reconstruction for Complex Diseases»

§ Reviewer in International Journals (Selected)

1. Bioinformatics

2. ICT Express

3. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools

4. Frontiers in Genetics

5. Neural Computing and Applications

6. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

§ Reviewer for International Conferences (Selected)

1. European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB 18)

2. IEEE BigData 2019

3. IEEE BigData 2020

4. IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (IEEE BIBE 2019)

§ Awards

1. 3rd Paper Award in Young Research Competition in XIII Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, 2013

2. Selected for Travel Fellowship to attend the conference “Biology of Aging”, Singapore 22-24 October, 2015

3. Best Poster Award in Best Poster Competition in Cardiovascular research Conference, Barcelona 2014

4. Best Poster Award in Workshop MET-GR III: Metabolic and Protein Network Analysis in Systems Biology, Sep 18-20 2014, Patras GREECE

5. BIHELab (where he is member) received the award for its coronavirus pandemic research, which was presented online to members of the Texas Medical Center research community on Friday 19 June


§ Scholarships

1. (2017-2018, 2019-2020): Successfully applied for Teaching Scholarship within project "Academic teaching Experience for New post-Doctoral Scientists" financed by the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF), for the Pattern Recognition (undergraduate) course of Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics.

2. (2019-2020, 2020-2021) Successfully applied for Teaching Scholarship within project "Academic teaching Experience for New post-Doctoral Scientists" financed by the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF), for the Numerical Analysis (undergraduate) course of Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics.