Vasilios Tabakas

Vasilios Tabakas is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Peloponnese (based in Patras), where he also directs the Distributed Intelligent Systems and Data (DISyD Lab). He holds a PhD in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras, with a thesis focused on Operational and Distributed Systems.

• Research Interests: Distributed Systems, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Mining, Machine Learning, Big Data Management
• Teaching: Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Data Mining, Business Intelligence at undergraduate level; Big Data Management and Advanced Data Mining at postgraduate level
• Leadership: Former Vice President of the Technical University of Patras (2005–2008), Department President, and Dean

His research focuses on distributed systems control algorithms, information retrieval, and big data, with over 100 publications and 1800+ citations. He has led numerous R&D projects and authored three university textbooks. His lab investigates scalable solutions for distributed computing and data-intensive applications.