ZEINALIPOUR DEMETRIS

DEMETRIS ZEINALIPOUR

+357-22-892755

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PROFESSOR

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Department of Computer Science

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FST 01 - Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, B106 [ https://goo.gl/RLbcXM ]

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University Campus

www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~dzeina/

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Demetris Zeinalipour is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus, where he leads the Data Management Systems Laboratory (DMSL). His primary research interests include Data Management in Computer Systems and Networks. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California - Riverside (2005). Before his current appointment, he served the University of Cyprus as an Assistant Professor and Lecturer but also the Open University of Cyprus as a Lecturer. He has held visiting research appointments at Akamai Technologies, Cambridge, MA, USA, the University of Athens, Greece, the University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany. He is a Humboldt Fellow, Marie-Curie Fellow, an ACM Distinguished Speaker (2017-2020), a Senior Member of ACM, a Senior Member of IEEE and a Member of USENIX. He serves on the editorial board of Distributed and Parallel Databases (Elsevier), Big Data Research (Springer), SI Editor for ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (ACM), and is an independent evaluator for the European Commission (Marie Skłodowska-Curie and COST actions), the Hong Kong Research Grants Council and the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation.

His h-index is 30, has over 150 articles with over 3800 citations, has an Erdös number of 3, was awarded 12 international awards and honors (IEEE-MDM18, IEEE-MDM17, ACMD17, ACMS16, IEEES16, HUMBOLDT16, ACM-IEEE-IPSN14, EVARILOS14, APPCAMPUS13, IEEE-MDM12, MC07, CIC06) and delivered over 40 invited talks. He was General Co-Chair for 4 conferences and Program Co-Chair for 8 conferences. He has participated in over 20 projects funded by the US National Science Foundation, by the European Commission, the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation, the Univ. of Cyprus, the Open University of Cyprus and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. Finally, he has also been involved in industrial Research and Development projects (e.g., Cyprus, France, Finland, India, Taiwan) and has technically lead several open source mobile data management services (e.g., Anyplace, Vgate, Rayzit and Smartlab) reaching thousands of users worldwide.

For more information please visit: https://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~dzeina/ or the DMSL website: https://dmsl.cs.ucy.ac.cy/

His primary research interests include Data Management in Computer Systems and Networks, particularly Mobile, Sensor and Spatio-Temporal Data Management; Big Data Management in Parallel and Distributed Architectures; Network, Blockchain and Telco Data Management; Crowd, Web 2.0 and Indoor Data Management; Data Privacy Management; Data Management for Sustainability.

FULL Publication List: https://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~dzeina/publications/

ACM TIOT'22 Green Planning of IoT Home Automation Workflows in Smart Buildings", Soteris Constantinou, Andreas Konstantinidis, Panos K. Chrysanthis and Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (TIOT'22), ACM, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 1--30, New York, NY, USA, DOI: 10.1145/3549549, 2022.
IEEE IC'22 "Green Planning Systems for Self-Consumption of Renewable Energy", Soteris Constantinou, Andreas Konstantinidis and Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, IEEE Internet Computing (IC'22), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 7 pages, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, DOI: 10.1109/MIC.2022.3164581, 2022.
ACM TSAS'22 "ASTRO: Reducing COVID-19 Exposure through Contact Prediction and Avoidance", Chrysovalantis Anastasiou, Constantinos Costa, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Cyrus Shahabi, and Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (TSAS'22), Association for Computing Machinery, Vol. 8, Iss. 2, Article 11 (June 2022), 31 pages. New York, NY, USA, DOI: 10.1145/3490492, 2022.
IEEE ICDE'21 "The IoT Meta-Control Firewall", Soteris Constantinou, Andreas Konstantinidis, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Proceedings of the 37th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'21), pp. 2523-2534, DOI: 10.1109/ICDE51399.2021.00284, IEEE Computer Society, Chania, Crete, Greece, April 19-22, 2021.
ACM TSAS'21 "Indoor Quality-of-Position Visual Assessment using Crowdsourced Fingerprint Maps", Christos Laoudias, Artyom Nikitin, Panagiotis Karras, Moustafa Youssef, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (TSAS'21), Association for Computing Machinery, Vol. 7, Iss. 2, Article 10 (February 2021), 32 pages. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3433026.
ACM TOIT'20 "Serendipity-Based Points-of-Interest Navigation", Xiaoyu Ge, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Konstantinos Pelechrinis, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Mohamed Sharaf, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT'20), Association for Computing Machinery, Vol. 20, Iss. 4, Article 33 (November 2020), 32 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3391197
Geoinformatica'19 "Continuous Decaying of Telco Big Data with Data Postdiction", Constantinos Costa, Andreas Charalampous, Andreas Konstantinidis, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Geoinformatica'19, Springer Nature Press Switzerland, DOI: 10.1007/s10707-019-00364-z, June 2019.
IEEE ICDE'19 "Bridging Quantities in Tables and Text", Yusra Ibrahim, Mirek Riedewald, Gerhard Weikum and Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Proceedings of the 35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'19), pp. 1010-1021, DOI: 10.1109/ICDE.2019.00094, IEEE Computer Society, Macao, 2019
ESWC'19 "Generating Semantic Aspects for Queries", Dhruv Gupta, Klaus Berberich, Jannik Strötgen, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Proceedings of the 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'19), Springer LNCS, pp. 162--178, June 2nd to June 6th, 2019, Portorož, Slovenia, 2019.
ACM TOIT'18 "IoT Data Prefetching in Indoor Navigation SOAs", Andreas Konstantinidis, Panagiotis Irakleous, Zacharias Georgiou, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti and Panos K. Chrysanthis, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT'18), Vol. 19, Iss. 1, Article 10, pp. 10:1-10:21, 2018.
IEEE MDM'18 "Decaying Telco Big Data with Data Postdiction", Constantinos Costa, Andreas Charalampous, Andreas Konstantinidis, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti and Mohamed F. Mokbel, 19th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'18), ISBN: 978-1-5386-4133-0, pp. 106--115, June 25 - June 28, 2018, AAU, Aalborg, Denmark, 2018. (Best of MDM'18 / Geoinformatica Invitation!)
IEEE IC'17 "Internet-Based Indoor Navigation Services", Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Christos Laoudias, Kyriakos Georgiou, Georgios Chatzimilioudis, IEEE Internet Computing (IC'17), vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 54-63, July 2017, doi:10.1109/MIC.2017.2911420, IEEE Computer Society, 2017.
IEEE MDM'17 "Indoor Localization Accuracy Estimation from Fingerprint Data", Artyom Nikitin, Georgios Chatzimilioudis, Christos Laoudias, Panagiotis Karras and Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'17), pp. 196--205, IEEE Press, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea, May 29 - June 1, 2017. (Honorable Mention Award!).
IEEE ICDE'17 "Efficient Exploration of Telco Big Data with Compression and Decaying", Constantinos Costa, Georgios Chatzimilioudis, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'17), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 1332--1343, April 19-22, 2017, San Diego, CA, USA, ISBN: 978-1-5090-6543-1, 2017.
Elsevier InfoSys'17 "Crowdsourcing Emergency Data in Non-Operational Cellular Networks", Georgios Chatzimilioudis, Constantinos Costa, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti and Wang-Chien Lee, Information Systems (InfoSys'17), Special Issue on Large-Scale Data Management for Mobile Applications, Vol. 64, pp. 292 - 302, Oxford, UK, 2017.
IEEE TKDE'16 "Distributed In-Memory Processing of All k Nearest Neighbor Queries", Georgios Chatzimilioudis, Constantinos Costa, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Wang-Chien Lee and Evaggelia Pitoura, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE'16), IEEE Computer Society, Vol. 28, Iss. 4, pp. 925-938, 2016.
Springer DAPD'16 "Managing Big Data Experiments on Smartphones", Georgios Larkou, Marios Mintzis, Panayiotis G. Andreou, Andreas Konstantinidis and Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD'16), Special Issue on Large-Scale Data Management for Mobile Applications, Springer US, Vol. 34, Iss. 1, pp. 33-64, 2016.
IEEE TKDE'15 "Privacy-Preserving Indoor Localization on Smartphones", Andreas Konstantinidis, Georgios Chatzimilioudis, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Paschalis Mpeis, Nikos Pelekis, Yannis Theodoridis, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE'15), IEEE Computer Society, Vol. 27, Iss. 11, pp. 3042-3055, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, 2015.
IEEE MDM'15 "Radiomap Prefetching for Indoor Navigation in Intermittently Connected Wi-Fi Networks", Andreas Konstantinidis, George Nikolaides, Georgios Chatzimilioudis, Giannis Evagorou, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti and Panos K. Chrysanthis, Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'15), IEEE Press, Vol.1, pp. 34-43, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2015.
Springer JNCA'14 "A network-aware framework for energy-efficient data acquisition in wireless sensor networks", Panayiotis G. Andreou, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, George S. Samaras and Panos K. Chrysanthis, Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA '14), Elsevier North-Holland, Vol. 46, pp. 227 - 240, 2014.
USENIX LISA'13 "Managing Smartphone Testbeds with SmartLab", G. Larkou, C. Costa, P. Andreou, A. Konstantinidis, D. Zeinalipour-Yazti, Proceedings of the 27th USENIX Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA'13), Washington D.C., USA, pp. 115-132, ISBN: 978-1-931971-05-8, 2013
IEEE TKDE'13 "Crowdsourced Trace Similarity with Smartphones", Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Christos Laoudias, Constandinos Costa, Michail Vlachos, Maria I. Andreou and Dimitrios Gunopulos, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE'13), IEEE Computer Society, Vol. 25, Iss. 6, pp. 1240-1253, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, 2013.
IEEE IC'12 "Crowdsourcing with smartphones", Georgios Chatzimiloudis, Andreas Konstantinidis, Christos Laoudias and Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, IEEE Internet Computing (IC'12), Special Issue: Sep/Oct 2012 - Crowdsourcing, May 2012. IEEE Press, Vol. 16, Iss. 5, pp. 36-44, 2012.
IEEE MDM'12 "Continuous all k-nearest neighbor querying in smartphone networks", Georgios Chatzimilioudis, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Wang-Chien Lee, Marios D. Dikaiakos, Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'12), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 79-88, Bangalore, India, ISBN: 978-0-7695-4713-8, 2012.
Springer DAPD'11 "Power efficiency through tuple ranking in wireless sensor network monitoring", Panayiotis Andreou, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Panos K. Chrysanthis and George Samaras, Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD'11), Springer Press, Vol. 29, Iss. 1, pp. 113-150, 2011.
Elsevier InfoSys'11 "Optimized query routing trees for wireless sensor networks", Panayiotis Andreou, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Andreas Pamboris, Panos K. Chrysanthis, George Samaras, Information Systems (InfoSys'11), Elsevier Science Ltd., Vol. 36, Iss. 2, pp. 267-291, Oxford UK, 2011.
IEEE MDM'11"Disclosure-Free GPS Trace Search in Smartphone Networks", Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Christos Laoudias, Maria I. Andreou, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'11), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 78-87, Washington DC, USA, ISBN: 978-0-7695-4436-6, 2011.
Elsevier ComNet'09 "Finding the K highest-ranked answers in a distributed network", Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Zografoula Vagena, Dimitrios Gunopulos and Vana Kalogeraki, Vassilis Tsotras, Michail Vlachos, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava, Computer Networks (ComNet'09), Elsevier North-Holland Inc., Vol.53, Iss. 9, pp. 1431-1449, New York, NY, USA, 2009.
IEEE MDM'08 "Workload-Aware Query Routing Trees in Wireless Sensor Networks", Panayiotis Andreou, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Panos K. Chrysanthis and George Samaras, Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'08), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 189--196, Washington DC, USA, ISBN: 978-0-7695-3154-0, 2008.
IEEE TPDS'07 "pFusion: a P2P Architecture for Internet-Scale Content-Based Search and Retrieval", Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Vana Kalogeraki, and Dimitrios Gunopulos, IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS'07), IEEE Press, Vol.18, Iss. 6, pp. 804-817, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2007.
ACM TOS'06 "Efficient indexing data structures for flash-based sensor devices", Song Lin, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Vana Kalogeraki, Dimitrios Gunopulos, and Walid A. Najjar, ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS'06), ACM, Vol. 2, Iss. 4, pp. 468-503, New York, NY, USA, 2006.
ACM CIKM'06 "Distributed Spatio-Temporal Trajectory Retrieval", Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Song Lin, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'06), ACM Press, Arlington, VA, USA, 2006.
Elsevier ComNet'06 Structuring topologically aware overlay networks using domain names, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti and Vana Kalogeraki, Computer Networks (ComNet'06), Elsevier North-Holland Inc., Vol. 50, Iss. 16, pp. 3064-3082, New York NY, USA, 2006.
USENIX FAST'05 "Microhash: an efficient index structure for flash-based sensor devices", Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Song Lin, Vana Kalogeraki, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Walid Najjar, Proceedings of the 4th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'05), San Francisco, CA, USENIX Association, pp. 31-44, Berkeley CA, USA, 2005.
Elsevier InfoSys'05 "Exploiting locality for scalable information retrieval in peer-to-peer networks", Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Vana Kalogeraki and Dimitrios Gunopulos, Information Systems (InfoSys'05), Elsevier Science Ltd., Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 277-298, Oxford UK, 2005.
ACM CIKM'02 "A local search mechanism for peer-to-peer networks", Vana Kalogeraki, Dimitrios Gunopulos and Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Proceedings of 11th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'02), McLean, Virginia, USA, ACM, pp. 300-307, New York, NY, USA, ISBN: 1-58113-492-4, 2002.