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)
2. ICT Express
3. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools
5. Neural Computing and Applications
6. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
§ Reviewer for International Conferences (Selected)
1. European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB 18)
3. IEEE BigData 2020
4. IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (IEEE BIBE 2019)
§ Awards
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
§ 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.