Christos Doulkeridis

Christos Doulkeridis is a Professor at the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece. He specializes in parallel and distributed query processing, large-scale data management, and spatio-temporal data systems. His work focuses on optimizing big data frameworks for mobility analytics and distributed knowledge discovery. He holds a PhD from Athens University of Economics and Business (2007) and has been involved in several EU-funded projects like EMERALDS, Green.DAT.AI, and MobiSpaces as Principal Investigator or Coordinator.

• Education:
  • PhD in Informatics (2007), Athens University of Economics and Business
  • M.Sc. in Information Systems (2003), Athens University of Economics and Business
  • Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2001), National Technical University of Athens
• Awards:
  • Best Paper Awards at SIGSPATIAL, SSTD, EuroVA
  • Marie-Curie and ERCIM Fellowships
  • SemEval 2017 Task 4 & 6 competition wins

His research interests include scalable data processing frameworks, mobility data analytics, and spatio-temporal query optimization. He leads projects like MobiSpaces (Horizon Europe), aiming to create energy-efficient data spaces for mobility data. He has published over 100 papers in top venues like EDBT, SIGMOD, and ICDE, focusing on distributed systems, query processing, and machine learning applications in data management.

Teaching: He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in data structures, data analysis, big data processing, and database systems at the University of Piraeus. His courses integrate practical tools like Spark and Hadoop for real-world data challenges.