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Personal data Name (Family, First): Street: Zip: City: Country: Telephone: Email: Ipeirotis, Panagiotis Mezonos 130 26222 Patras Greece (+3061) 322966 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