Georgia Koloniari

Georgia Koloniari is an Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Informatics, School of Information Sciences, University of Macedonia. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Ioannina (2009), along with an MSc (2003) and BSc (2001) in Computer Science from the same institution. Her research focuses on distributed systems, graph databases, and peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, with notable contributions to social network analysis, XML data management, and privacy-preserving techniques. She has led or participated in multiple funded research projects, including the Cloud9 project (2011–2014) and the Self-Peer initiative (2005–2008).

Her teaching roles include instructing courses such as Distributed Systems, Data Structures, and Advanced Information Systems at the undergraduate level, and IT Infrastructure and Databases at the graduate level. She has also contributed to online educational initiatives, including the development of the Data Structures course in the Open Digital Courses project.

Dr. Koloniari’s research interests span social network evolution, graph database management, and distributed data processing. She has published extensively on topics like clustered overlay networks, privacy-preserving record linkage, and temporal query processing. Her work integrates game-theoretic approaches and algorithmic solutions to address challenges in P2P systems and cloud computing.

Her recent publications highlight advancements in privacy-preserving techniques (e.g., PRIVATEER toolkit) and time-aware social search systems. She remains active in academic service, serving on program committees for conferences like WWW and EDBT, and reviewing for journals such as IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

Labs/Teams: Her involvement with the DMOD Lab (Digital Media, Data Management, and Distributed Systems Lab) reflects her focus on interdisciplinary research in data management and distributed computing.