KDD Lab

Welcome to KDD Lab!

KDD Lab (Knowledge Discovery in Databases Laboratory) is part of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

The main research activities of KDD Lab revolve around data mining, information retrieval, text mining, social networks, recommendation systems, wireless sensor networks and knowledge discovery in general.

People

Professor

Dimitrios Gunopulos

Post-Doc Researcher

• Antonia Saravanou

Ph.D. students

• Konstantinos Alexis
• Paschalis Antoniou
• Thanasis Makropoulos
• Kleopatra Markou
• Mary Touranakou
• Ilias Tsoukatos

Alumni

• Georgios Chrysinas, B.Sc.
• Rizart Dona, M.Sc.
• Georgios Garmpis, B.Sc.
• Georgios Gasparis, B.Sc.
• Dimitris Ginis, B.Sc.
• Stelios Karabassakis, M.Sc.
• Georgios Kafousopoulos, M.Sc.
• Ioannis Katakis, Postdoctoral researcher
• Dimitris Kotsakos, Ph.D.
• Dimitris Kotzias, M.Sc.
• Nikos Larios, M.Sc.
• Evita Mailli, M.Sc.
• Christos Mitatakis, M.Sc.
• Evangelos Moussas, B.Sc.
• Eleutherios Ouzounoglou, B.Sc.
• Nikolaos Panagiotou, Ph.D.
• Costantinos Pantazis, B.Sc.
• Ilias Panagiotopoulos, M.Sc.
• Manolis Platakis, B.Sc.
• Panagiotis Sakkos, M.Sc.
• Georgios Stamoulis, B.Sc.
• Stefanos Tsalkas, B.Sc.
• Dimitris Tsitsigkos, B.Sc.
• George Valkanas, Ph.D.
• Nikos Voskarides, B.Sc.
• Nikolas Zygouras, Ph.D.

News

• Horizon2020 TAILOR: Foundations of Trustworthy AI - Integrating Reasoning, Learning and Optimization has been accepted!
• Dimitrios Gunopulos receives the 2020 IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award (announcement)
• Professor Gunopulos is Program Committee co-Chair at IEEE ICDE 2020
• Paper accepted: NE Panagiotou, C Akkaya, K Tsioutsiouliklis, V Kalogeraki, D Gunopulos, A General Framework for First Story Detection Utilizing Entities and their Relations, IEEE TKDE 2020
• Paper accepted: N Zygouras, N Panagiotou, Y Li, D Gunopulos, L Guibas, "HTTE: A Hybrid Technique For Travel Time Estimation In Sparse Data Environments, SIGSPATIAL, 2019
• Paper accepted: Nikolaos Zygouras, Dimitrios Gunopulos, “Corridor Learning Using Individual Trajectories”, 2018 19th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM)
• Professor Gunopulos will be General Chair at SIAM SDM 2018
• Paper accepted: A. Saravanou, I. Katakis, G. Valkanas, D. Gunopulos "Detection and Delineation of Events and Sub-Events in Social Networks", ICDE 2018
• LAMBDA project
• Professor Gunopulos was awarded the Google Faculty Award 2017 on "Analysing human mobility GPS trajectories"
• Professor Gunopulos is General Chair at SIAM SDM 2017
• Paper accepted: A. Saravanou, I. Katakis, G. Valkanas, V. Kalogeraki, D. Gunopulos "Revealing the Hidden Links in Content Networks: An Application to Event Discovery", ACM CIKM 2017
• 2 papers accepted in SIGSPATIAL 2017!
• Y. Li, D. Gunopulos, C. Lu, L. Guibas "Urban Travel Time Prediction using a Small Number of GPS Floating Cars", ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017
• N. Zygouras, D. Gunopulos "Discovering Corridors From GPS Trajectories", ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017
• Paper accepted: A. Gal, N. Rivetti, A. Senderovich, D. Gunopulos, I. Katakis, N. Panagiotou, V. Kalogeraki "REMI, Reusable Elements for Multi-Level Information Availability: Demo", DEBS 2017
• Paper accepted: Y. Li, Y. Li, D. Gunopulos, L. Guibas "Knowledge-based trajectory completion from sparse GPS samples", ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016
• 2 papers accepted at ECML PKDD 2016! INSIGHT: Dynamic Traffic Management Using Heterogeneous Urban Data and Intelligent Urban Data Monitoring for Smart Cities.
• Paper accepted:  Chen Chen, Cewu Lu, Qixing Huang, Qiang Yang, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Leonidas J. Guibas: City-Scale Map Creation and Updating using GPS Collections, KDD 2016
• VaVeL Kick off meeting. More details here.
• Paper accepted: Processing Top-k Dominating Queries in Metric Spaces, ACM Trans. Database Systems 2016
• Our new project VaVeL has received funding! VaVeL is about Variety, Veracity, Value of Big Data and how to handle the Multiplicity of Urban Sensors. Find more details here.