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,

Uppsala DataBase Laboratory

 

 

 

Welcome

 

Välkommen

 

 

 

 

 

NEWS

 

Currently, I am on a sabbatical leave at Boston (USA) supported by Teknat (International Sabbaticals, Uppsala universitet). I am working with Boston University and Harvard University.

 

Our paper was accepted at ACM TODS:

G. J. Fakas, G. Kalamatianos, Proportionality on Spatial Data with Context, ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), 2023.

 

 

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.

 

 

Professional Activities.

 

Member of Programme Committees:

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).

 

 

PhD Supervision.

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. 

 

Teaching.

Database Design I, 5.0c, Course code: 1DL301

Database Design II, 5.0c, Course code: 1DL400

Independent Project in Sociotechnical Systems Engineering - IT Systems, 15.0 c, Course code:1DL931

 

 

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, New York City, New York, USA.

 

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.