Efstathios Stamatatos

Roles & Affiliations: Efstathios Stamatatos is a Professor in the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering at the University of the Aegean, Greece. He has held academic roles since 2004, including adjunct professorships and postdoctoral research positions. His primary affiliation is the University of the Aegean, where he directs the Artificial Intelligence Lab and organizes international evaluation campaigns (PAN/CLEF).

Education: Earned his Diploma (1994) and PhD (2000) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras. He conducted postdoctoral research at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (2001-2002) and held visiting roles at institutions like the Polytechnic University of Madrid and Lehigh University.

Research Interests: Focuses on text mining, natural language processing, machine learning, and authorship analysis. Key areas include plagiarism detection, author profiling, cross-domain attribution, and forensic linguistics. His work bridges computational methods with applications in digital forensics and humanities.

Publications & Contributions: Over 100 peer-reviewed articles in journals like Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology and conference proceedings (ECIR, ACL, CICLing). His research emphasizes reproducibility and has led to open-source codebases for authorship analysis tools.

Awards & Activities: Editorial board member of Language Resources and Evaluation and Information Processing and Management. Organizes PAN competitions on authorship forensics and serves on program committees for top conferences (ACL, SIGIR, ECIR). Active in promoting ethical AI through initiatives like text detoxification and generative AI analysis.