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Georgios J. Fakas
Associate Professor (Docent) Department
of Information Technology Uppsala
University Hus 10, SE-752 37, Uppsala Sweden. Email: georgios.fakas@it.uu.se Bio, Publications, PhD Supervision, Teaching, |
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NEWS PhD
position. We are recruiting a PhD student so please email me if you are
interested. Deadline is 2nd
of January 2025. You can find more
information and apply here.
Final
year projects. If you are interested in doing a database project under my
supervision, please have a look on my recent papers first. See if you find
them interesting to you then we can discuss a project. |
Biographical
Notes
Georgios Fakas (Γεώργιος
Φάκας, 佐治.法卡斯)
I am an Associate Professor (Docent) at the Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University. I am currently leading the Uppsala DataBase Laboratory (UDBL) within the Department of Information Technology. Before joining Uppsala University, I worked as a Research Fellow at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (with Prof. Dimitris Papadias), Hong Kong University (with Prof. Nikos Mamoulis), EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland), UMIST (Manchester, UK), University of Cyprus (Cyprus). I also worked as a Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK). I have published papers in the most influential conferences and journals of data management, including SIGMOD, PVLDB, VLDB Journal, IEEE TKDE, DKE, etc. Education. I obtained my Ph.D. in 1998, my M.Phil. in
1996 and my B.Sc. in Computation in 1995; all from the Department of
Computation, UMIST, Manchester, UK. Research Interests. My research interests
include (1) big data; (2) keyword search and ranking on (semi) structure data
and (attributed) graphs; (3) web search; (4) online (geo) social networks. I
am also interested in (5) workflow management. Other research interests also include Computers in
Education, Distance and Collaborative Learning. Awards. In 2023, I received an
“International Sabbaticals” grant from Teknat
(Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Uppsala University) which was
hosted by Boston University, USA. In 2009, I received
the fellowship “Hosting of Experienced Researchers from Abroad” from the
Research Promotion Foundation (RPF), Cyprus which was hosted by the
University Of Cyprus, Cyprus. In 2001, I was awarded
the ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics)
Fellowship which was hosted by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology -
Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Current
funding eSSENCE, Sweden. Principal
Investigator for the project “Data-intensive
analytics for discovering critical minerals using Machine Learning”, Call for
PhD projects in the eSSENCE graduate school in
data-intensive science 2024. In collaboration with streamanalyze.com (Tore
Risch) and
www.smartexploration.se (Bjarne Almqvist). Professional Activities. Member of Programme Committees: 2025: ACM SIGMOD 2024: PVLDB. 2023: PVLDB. 2021: ACM SIGMOD, EDBT. 2020: ACM SIGMOD, IEEE ICDE. 2019: ACM SIGMOD, SSTD, WISE, IEEE/ACM WI’19. 2018: HDMS, WESOACS. 2010: HDMS. 2005: HICSS 2001: ACM
SAC. Chair: 2022: MDM Demos. Frequent Reviewer for: IEEE TKDE, VLDBJ
(Elsevier), IS (Elsevier), DKE (Elsevier), IST (Elsevier). Completed at UU: (4) Georgios Kalamatianos (Dec
2022), (3) Khalid Mahmood (Jan 2022). Completed at MMU: (2) Zhi Cai was my second PhD student (completed his PhD in 2011). Dr. Cai is currently a Lecturer at the Beijing University of Technology, China. (1) Ben Cawley was my first PhD student (completed his PhD in 2008). Dr. Cawley's first employment was in a start up company in the U.K. Database Design I, 5.0c, Course code:
1DL301 Database Design II, 5.0c,
Course code: 1DL400 Selected
Publications
G. J.
Fakas, G. Kalamatianos, Proportionality
on Spatial Data with Context, ACM Transactions on
Database Systems (TODS), 2023. G. Kalamatianos, G. J. Fakas, N. Mamoulis,
Proportionality in
Spatial Keyword Search, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2021. (Mp4, ppt) C. Zhi, G. Kalamatianos, G. J. Fakas, N. Mamoulis,
D. Papadias, Diversified
Keyword search on spatial RDF data,
Very Large Data Bases Journal (VLDBJ), 2020. G. J. Fakas, Z. Cai, Object
Summaries for Keyword Search, Encyclopedia with Semantic Computing and Robotic Intelligence, Volume 2, No. 2, pp
1-20, 2018. G. J. Fakas, Y. Cai, Z. Cai, N. Mamoulis, Thematic Ranking
of Object Summaries for Keyword Search,
Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE), Elsevier, Volume 113, pp
1-17, 2018. (ppt) G. J. Fakas, Z. Cai, N. Mamoulis, Diverse and Proportional Size-l Object Summaries Using
Pairwise Relevance, Very Large Data Bases
Journal
(VLDBJ), 2016. (ppt) E. Schiza, G. J. Fakas, C.
S. Pattichis, N.Petkov,
C. N. Schizas, Security
Issues Of Integrated Electronic Health Records (EHRs), MEDICON, 2016. G. J. Fakas, Z. Cai, N. Mamoulis, Diverse and Proportional Size-l Object Summaries for
Keyword Search, Proceedings of the ACM
Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD),
2015. R. Ahuja, N. Armenatzoglou, D. Papadias, G. J. Fakas, Geo-Social Keyword Search,
Proceedings of the International
Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), Seoul, Korea, August 26-28, 2015. G. J. Fakas, Z. Cai, N. Mamoulis, Versatile Size-l Object Summaries for
Relational Keyword Search, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data
Engineering (TKDE), Volume 26, No. 4, pp
1026-1038, 2014. G. J. Fakas, Z. Cai, N. Mamoulis, Size-l Object Summaries for Relational
Keyword Search, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), Volume 5, Issue 3, pp
229-240, 2011. G. J. Fakas, B. Cawley, Z. Cai, Automated Generation of Personal Data Reports
from Relational Databases, Journal of Information and Knowledge
Management (JIKM), World Scientific, Volume 10, Issue 2, pp 1-16, 2011. G. Fakas, Automated
Generation of Object Summaries from Relational Databases: A Novel Keyword
Searching Paradigm, Data &
Knowledge Engineering (DKE), Elsevier, Volume 70, Issue
2, pp 208-229, 2011. G. Fakas, Z. Cai, Ranking of Object Summaries,
DBRank Workshop 2009, ICDE 2009. B. Karakostas, G. Fakas, An Architecture for
Reliable Mobile Workflow in a Grid Environment, Fourth International
Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, Venice, May 2009. G. Fakas, Automated
Generation of Object Summaries from Relational Databases: A Novel Keyword
Searching Paradigm, DBRank Workshop 2008, ICDE 2008. (Presentation,
Demo) E. Kyriacou, G. Fakas, V. Pavlaki, A
Completely Decentralized Workflow Management System for the Support of
Emergency Telemedicine and Patient Monitoring, 28th IEEE EMBS
Annual International Conference, Aug 30-Sept. 3, 2006, G. Fakas, A. V. Nguyen and D. Gillet, The Electronic Laboratory Journal: A Web-Based Collaborative Environment for Remote Experimentation, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): The Journal of Collaborative Computing, Kluwer Academic Publisher, Volume 14, Number 3, pp 189–216, 2005. G.
Fakas, I. Lamprianou, A. Andreou,
M. Pampaka, C. Schizas, The Evaluation of Cultural Journeys in the
Information Society (CJIS) Environment as an Educational Aid,
Computers & Education Journal, Elsevier, Volume 45, Issue 1, pp. 123-139,
2005. G.
Fakas, B. Karakostas, A Peer to Peer Architecture for Dynamic
Workflow Management,
Information and Software Technology Journal, Elsevier, Volume 46, Issue 6, pp 423-431, 2004. G.
Fakas, A. Kakas, C. Schizas, Electronic Roads: Intelligent Navigation Through
Multi-Contextual Information, Knowledge and Information Systems,
International Journal, Springer, Volume
6, Issue 1, pp.
103–124, 2004. B. Karakostas, D. Panayiotakis, G. Fakas, Workflow Requirements Modelling Using XML, Requirements Engineering Journal, Springer, Volume 7, Issue 3, pp 124-138, 2002. |