Nikos Giatrakos

Nikos Giatrakos is an Assistant Professor at the School of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, and a core member of the Software Technology and Network Applications Lab (SoftNet). His work bridges Big Data systems, IoT, and advanced analytics, with a focus on real-time processing and scalable architectures. Previously, he served as a postdoctoral researcher at the same laboratory.

Education

• PhD in Computer Science, University of Piraeus (2012)
• Postgraduate Diploma in Information Systems, Athens University of Economics and Business (2008)
• BSc in Computer Science, University of Piraeus (2006)

Research Focus: Nikos specializes in software architectures for Big Data streaming, including Distributed Big Data Processing, Federated Machine Learning, Cloud-to-Edge Data Management, and Approximate Query Processing. His work has also advanced Complex Event Processing and Outlier Detection in decentralized environments.

Scientific Contributions: His research has led to the DAG* workflow optimizer for IoT, the SuBiTO framework for real-time neural learning, and the INFORE approach for cross-platform analytics. He received the Best System Demonstration Award at ACM CIKM 2020 for INforE.

Academic Leadership: Nikos teaches Object-Oriented Programming, Data Science, and Distributed Systems. He has supervised numerous European and national grants as Principal Investigator and served on program committees for top-tier conferences like SIGMOD, VLDB, and DEBS.