Koubarakis Manolis

Professor Manolis Koubarakis is a faculty member at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His research focuses on geospatial data science, knowledge graphs, entity resolution, and AI applications in Earth observation. He leads projects like ExtremeEarth and Plato, advancing semantic data cube systems and geospatial question answering engines. His work bridges AI and geospatial technologies, with contributions to frameworks like pyJedAI and Strabo 2 for managing big geospatial data.

Research Interests include:

• Geospatial Question Answering Systems
• Entity Resolution and Entity Linking
• Ontology-Based Data Access (OBDA)
• Knowledge Graph Construction and Applications
• Earth Observation Data Analytics
• AI for Geoinformatics

Notable Projects:

• ExtremeEarth: Combines Copernicus satellite data with machine learning for environmental analytics.
• Plato: Semantic data cube system enabling advanced querying of multidimensional datasets.
• GeoQA2: A geospatial question answering engine evaluated on large benchmarks.
• JedAI Family: Tools for scalable entity resolution in structured/semi-structured data.

His publications span 20+ years, with recent emphasis on:

• AI-driven Earth observation systems
• Geospatial RDF benchmarking
• 3D geospatial interlinking
• Large language models for legal and health content delivery