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Name (Family, First): Ipeirotis, Panagiotis
Street: Mezonos 130
Zip: 26222
City: Patras
Country: Greece
Telephone: (+3061) 322966
Email: pirot@cti.gr
Education
Computer Engineering & Informatics Department,
School of Engineering, University of Patras, Greece.
B.Sc. in Computer Engineering & Science, July 1999 (expected).
Rank: 1st or 2nd (out of 120) (expected)
GPA: 9.25 / 10 (expected).
Specialization: Databases, Information Retrieval, and Distributed Systems.
Advisor: Professor Athanassios Tsakalidis (email: tsak@cti.gr)
B.Sc. thesis title: “Algorithms for Information Retrieval.”
Review of the existing methods in information retrieval and research on certain
open problems in the area of text databases. Trying to invent and implement
methods for evaluating the content of documents.
Work experience
Jan ’92 – Feb ’93, Design and developing of a database for the municipality of
Mesorrahi, Serres, Greece.
Address: Municipality of Mesorrahi, Nea Zihni, Serres, Greece.
Tel: +30324-22086.
Supervisor: Pashalis Yantsidis
Sep ‘92 – Aug ‘94, Teacher of programming languages (Basic, Pascal, C) and
operating systems for “Data Computer” (private computer school located in Serres,
Greece),
Address: Data Computer, Romanou 4, 62124, Serres, Greece.
Tel: +30321-52252.
Supervisor: Kyrillos Karypides
Oct ‘95 - Nov ‘97, System administrator for the computer center of the Computer
Engineering & Informatics Department and for the Computer Technology Institute.
Address: Computer Technology Institute, Kolokotroni 3, 26221, Patras, Greece.
Tel: +3061-960343
Supervisor: Yannis Siahos (siahos@cti.gr)
Jun ‘96 – Jan ‘97, Web developer for the Forthnet Point of Presence (PoP) in Serres,
Greece
Address: “Serres on-line”, Agisilaou 2, 62124, Serres, Greece
Tel: +3094-593968
Supervisor: Chatzitaskos George (georgeh@forthnet.gr)
Nov ’97 – now, Member of the “Computing & Networking Services” group of the
Computer Technology Institute.
Address: Computer Technology Institute, Kolokotroni 3, 26221, Patras, Greece.
Tel: +3061-960343
Supervisor: Theodoros Komninos (komninos@cti.gr)
Lab projects
Nov 94: Development of a database for keeping the grades of class using Pascal
Apr 95: Development of an environment for solving systems of linear equations
using various techniques of linear algebra using Fortran and Pascal
Nov 95: Implementation of data structures using C++
Nov 95: Design of a markup language for page description
Jun 96: Development of an interactive educational applet for demonstration of the
QuickSort algorithm using Java.
Nov 96: Design of a security system for home protection against thefts, and against
natural disasters.
Apr 97: Development of a GUI environment and the underlying module for filtering
sound signals using various filtering methods (MATLab)
Jul 97: Implementation of the filesystem and the memory management module of the
kernel of an Unix-like OS.
Nov 97: Implementation of a client for accessing a database using ProC and Oracle.
Nov 97 and May 98: Design and implementation of various distributed protocols
and performance analysis of them in various network topologies, using a simulator of
distributed systems.
Jul 98: Implemented an advanced hierarchical multithreaded client-server proxy for
efficient caching of information in a network, using C.
Nov 98: Implemented a client-server model for exchanging encrypted messages using
Java.
Research interests
Databases (multimedia databases, web-based databases, digital libraries, intelligent
information retrieval, geographic information systems, quality of information)
Distributed systems (distributed databases, distributed filesystems, distributed
security systems, fault tolerant systems)
Computer Related Skills
Programming languages
Pascal, C++, Java, C, Fortran, MATLab
Databases
DBase, Access, Oracle.
Foreign languages
English (fluent, Certificate of Proficiency in English)
Italian (good, Diploma Medio)
French (good, 6 year lessons during high school)
Honors/Awards
Jun 94: 1st award in the 8th National Competition in Chemistry
Jul 94: Member of the Greek Olympiad team in the 26 th International Chemistry
Olympiad (Oslo 1994).
Mar 96: Scholarship from National Scholarship Foundation due to superior academic
performance in 94-95 period
Sep 98: Scholarship from National Scholarship Foundation due to superior academic
performance in 96-97 period
May 99: Scholarship from National Scholarship Foundation due to superior academic
performance in 97-98 period
Society membership
ACM (SIGIR, SIGMOD, SIGCHI, SIGCUE)
Member of the Youth organization of the National Liberal party (DAP-NDFK).
Member of the central committee in the city of Patras for the 96-97 and 97-98
periods.
Elected for 4 consecutive periods (95-96, 96-97, 97-98, 98-99) as a student
representative to the CEID board of directors.
Member of the outdoors-sports club “Alpine”
Standardized exam scores
May ’98
TOEFL: 630
Oct ‘98
TSE: 5.0
Nov ’98
GRE General: Verbal 350 (13%), Quantitative 800 (99%), Analytical 800 (99%)
GRE Subject in Computer Science: 800 (89%)
References
Tsakalidis Athanassios
Professor and Vice-Chairman of Computer Engineering & Informatics Department,
University of Patras
Member of the Board of Directors of Computer Technology Institute,
R&D Coordinator of Computer Technology Institute,
Head of the Research Unit 5 of Computer Technology Institute.
Email: tsak@cti.gr
Spirakis Paul
Professor of Computer Engineering & Informatics Department, University of Patras
Director of Computer Technology Institute,
Head of the Research Unit 1 of Computer Technology Institute.
Email: spirakis@cti.gr
Christodoulakis Dimitrios
Professor and Chairman of Computer Engineering & Informatics Department, University
of Patras
Member of the Board of Directors of Computer Technology Institute,
Head of the Research Unit 2 of Computer Technology Institute.
E-mail: dxri@cti.gr