Doulkeridis Christos

Christos Doulkeridis is a Professor at the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus. Specializing in big data management, distributed systems, and mobility analytics, he has led projects such as CHOROLOGOS (ELIDEK-funded) and contributed to EU initiatives like datAcron and Track&Know. He holds Marie-Curie and ERCIM fellowships, and his work emphasizes energy-efficient data architectures and semantic trajectory analysis.

Education:

• PhD in Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business (2007)
• MSc in Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business (2003)
• Diploma in Electrical & Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (2001)

Research Interests: Big data analytics, cloud computing, spatiotemporal query processing, mobility forecasting (e.g., traffic patterns, maritime monitoring), and semantic trajectory modeling. His work bridges theory with practical applications in smart cities and environmental sustainability.

Awards:

• Winner of SemEval’17 Task4 (sentiment analysis)
• Best Paper Award at EuroVA’19
• Michalis Dertouzos Award (2004) for Human Face of Computing

Grants & Projects:

• Principal Investigator for CHOROLOGOS (semantic spatiotemporal data)
• Core contributor to datAcron (maritime data ontology)
• European projects: BigDataStack, RoadRunner (ARISTEIA II)

Labs & Teams: Leads research teams developing frameworks like SPARTAN (semantic integration) and ARGO (trajectory prediction). Collaborates on open-source tools like ST_VISIONS (spatiotemporal visualization) and NoDA (unified NoSQL access).