Konstantinos Semertzidis is a Technical Lead at Coca-Cola HBC. Before joining Coca-Cola, he worked as a Tech Lead Manager at Kaizen, Principal Engineer at Huawei Technologies R&D (UK) Ltd, Research Engineer at IBM's Dublin Research Laboratory (DRL), and Application Developer at IBM Client Innovation Centre UK.
Konstantinos has had a remarkable academic journey, earning a Ph.D. from the esteemed Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Ioannina in Greece. His research endeavors focus on cutting-edge areas such as the Internet of Things (IoT), evolving graph data management, query processing, graph databases, and social network analysis. His contributions in these domains have been recognized through publications in renowned academic journals and conferences such as TKDE, WWW, ICDE, and EDBT. During his tenure as a Ph.D. student, Konstantinos gained valuable experience as a Research Intern at IBM Research and Nokia Bell Labs.
Before pursuing his doctoral studies, Konstantinos completed his BSc in Computer Science from the University of Ioannina in 2012, demonstrating a strong foundation in the field. He further enhanced his academic credentials by obtaining an MSc in Computing from the University of York in 2013.
Oct 2023 Our Patent application titled Transportation boarding time notification has been granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Jul 2022 Our paper titled Scaling Knowledge Graphs for Automating AI of Digital Twins has been accepted at the ISWC 2022.
Jan 2022 Our paper titled Link Recommendations for PageRank Fairness has been accepted to the Web4Good special track at the ACM Web Conference 2022.
Nov 2021 Our Patent application titled Identifying relevant graph patterns in a knowledge graph background has been filed with the Patent Office in the US (App. 17/454909).
PhD: Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Ioannina, Greece (Oct. 2013 - July 2018)
MSc: Dept. of Computer Science, University of York, UK (Oct. 2012 - Sept. 2013)
BSc: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ioannina, Greece (Oct. 2008 - Sept. 2012)
PC Member: ACCIIDS 2018, WISE 2019, ICDE 2020.
Journal Reviews: Distributed and Parallel Databases 2018, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) 2017, 2019, 2020.
External Reviewer: EDBT 2016, SDM 2017, ICDE 2017.