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Georgios J. Fakas
Associate Professor (Docent) Department
of Information Technology Uppsala
University Hus 10, SE-752 37, Uppsala Sweden. Email: georgios.fakas@it.uu.se Bio, Publications, PhD Supervision, Teaching, Funding |
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Biographical
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Georgios Fakas (Γεώργιος
Φάκας, 佐治.法卡斯)
I am an Associate Professor (Docent) at the Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University. I am currently leading the Uppsala DataBase Laboratory (UDBL) within the Department of Information Technology. Before joining Uppsala University, I worked as a Research Fellow at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (with Prof. Dimitris Papadias), Hong Kong University (with Prof. Nikos Mamoulis), EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland), UMIST (Manchester, UK), University of Cyprus (Cyprus). I also worked as a Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK). I have published papers in the most influential conferences and journals of data management, including SIGMOD, PVLDB, VLDB Journal, IEEE TKDE, DKE, etc. Education. I obtained my Ph.D. in 1998, my M.Phil. in
1996 and my B.Sc. in Computation in 1995; all from the Department of
Computation, UMIST, Manchester, UK. Research Interests. My research interests include (1) big
data; (2) keyword search and ranking on (semi) structure data and
(attributed) graphs; (3) web search; (4) online (geo) social networks. I am
also interested in (5) workflow management. Other research interests also include Computers in
Education, Distance and Collaborative Learning. Awards. In 2023, I received an
International Sabbaticals grant
from Teknat (Disciplinary Domain of Science and
Technology, Uppsala University) which was hosted by Boston University, USA. In 2009, I received
the fellowship Hosting of Experienced
Researchers from Abroad from the Research Promotion Foundation (RPF),
Cyprus which was hosted by the University Of Cyprus, Cyprus. In 2001, I was awarded
the ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics)
Fellowship which was hosted by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology -
Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Current
funding
eSSENCE, Sweden. Principal Investigator for the
project “Data-intensive analytics
for discovering critical minerals using Machine Learning”, Call for PhD
projects in the eSSENCE
graduate school in data-intensive science 2024. In collaboration with www.streamanalyze.com (Tore Risch) and www.smartexploration.se (Bjarne Almqvist). Professional Activities. Member of Programme Committees: 2026: ACM SIGMOD, ADBIS (European Conference on Advances in
Databases and Information Systems) 2025: ACM SIGMOD 2024: PVLDB. 2023: PVLDB. 2021: ACM SIGMOD, EDBT. 2020: ACM SIGMOD, IEEE ICDE. 2019: ACM SIGMOD, SSTD, WISE, IEEE/ACM WI’19. 2018: HDMS, WESOACS. 2010: HDMS. 2005: HICSS 2001: ACM SAC. Chair: 2022: MDM Demos. Frequent Reviewer for: IEEE TKDE, VLDBJ (Elsevier),
IS (Elsevier), DKE (Elsevier), IST (Elsevier). Current: (1) Hedaya Alyousif
(2025), co-supervision
with Bjarne
Almqvist and Christian Schiffer (www.smartexploration.se).
(2) Yang Yang (2025) (funded by). Completed at UU: (4) Georgios Kalamatianos (Dec
2022), (3) Khalid Mahmood (Jan 2022). Completed at MMU: (2) Zhi Cai was my second PhD student (completed his PhD in 2011). Dr. Cai is currently a Lecturer at the Beijing University of Technology, China. (1) Ben Cawley was my first PhD student (completed his PhD in 2008). Dr. Cawley's first employment was in a start up company in the U.K. Database Design I, 5.0c, Course code:
1DL301 Database Design II, 5.0c, Course
code: 1DL400 Selected
Publications
G. J.
Fakas, G. Kalamatianos, Proportionality
on Spatial Data with Context, ACM Transactions on
Database Systems (TODS), 2023. G. Kalamatianos, G. J. Fakas, N. Mamoulis,
Proportionality in
Spatial Keyword Search, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2021. (Mp4, ppt) C. Zhi, G. Kalamatianos, G. J. Fakas, N. Mamoulis,
D. Papadias, Diversified
Keyword search on spatial RDF data,
Very Large Data Bases Journal (VLDBJ), 2020. G. J. Fakas, Z.
Cai, Object
Summaries for Keyword Search, Encyclopedia with Semantic Computing and Robotic Intelligence,
Volume
2, No. 2, pp 1-20, 2018. G. J. Fakas, Y.
Cai, Z. Cai, N. Mamoulis, Thematic
Ranking of Object Summaries for Keyword Search,
Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE), Elsevier, Volume 113, pp
1-17, 2018. (ppt) G. J. Fakas, Z.
Cai, N. Mamoulis, Diverse and Proportional Size-l Object Summaries Using
Pairwise Relevance, Very Large Data Bases
Journal
(VLDBJ), 2016. (ppt) E. Schiza, G. J. Fakas, C.
S. Pattichis, N.Petkov,
C. N. Schizas, Security
Issues Of Integrated Electronic Health Records (EHRs), MEDICON, 2016. G. J. Fakas, Z.
Cai, N. Mamoulis, Diverse and Proportional Size-l Object Summaries for
Keyword Search, Proceedings of the ACM
Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD),
2015. R. Ahuja, N. Armenatzoglou, D. Papadias, G. J. Fakas, Geo-Social Keyword Search,
Proceedings of the International
Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), Seoul, Korea, August 26-28, 2015. G. J. Fakas, Z.
Cai, N. Mamoulis, Versatile Size-l Object Summaries for
Relational Keyword Search, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data
Engineering (TKDE), Volume 26, No. 4, pp 1026-1038,
2014. G. J. Fakas, Z.
Cai, N. Mamoulis, Size-l Object Summaries for Relational
Keyword Search, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), Volume 5, Issue 3, pp
229-240, 2011. G. J. Fakas, B.
Cawley, Z. Cai, Automated Generation of
Personal Data Reports from Relational Databases, Journal of
Information and Knowledge Management (JIKM), World Scientific, Volume
10, Issue 2, pp 1-16, 2011. G. Fakas, Automated
Generation of Object Summaries from Relational Databases: A Novel Keyword
Searching Paradigm, Data &
Knowledge Engineering (DKE), Elsevier, Volume 70, Issue
2, pp 208-229, 2011. G. Fakas, Z. Cai, Ranking of Object Summaries, DBRank
Workshop 2009, ICDE 2009. B. Karakostas, G. Fakas, An Architecture for
Reliable Mobile Workflow in a Grid Environment, Fourth International
Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, Venice, May 2009. G. Fakas, Automated
Generation of Object Summaries from Relational Databases: A Novel Keyword
Searching Paradigm, DBRank Workshop 2008, ICDE 2008.
(Presentation, Demo) E. Kyriacou, G. Fakas, V. Pavlaki, A
Completely Decentralized Workflow Management System for the Support of
Emergency Telemedicine and Patient Monitoring, 28th IEEE EMBS
Annual International Conference, Aug 30-Sept. 3, 2006, G. Fakas, A. V. Nguyen and D. Gillet, The Electronic Laboratory Journal: A Web-Based Collaborative Environment for Remote Experimentation, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): The Journal of Collaborative Computing, Kluwer Academic Publisher, Volume 14, Number 3, pp 189–216, 2005. G.
Fakas, I. Lamprianou, A. Andreou,
M. Pampaka, C. Schizas, The Evaluation of Cultural Journeys in the
Information Society (CJIS) Environment as an Educational Aid,
Computers & Education Journal, Elsevier, Volume 45, Issue 1, pp. 123-139,
2005. G.
Fakas, B. Karakostas, A Peer to Peer Architecture for Dynamic
Workflow Management,
Information and Software Technology Journal, Elsevier, Volume 46, Issue 6, pp 423-431, 2004. G.
Fakas, A. Kakas, C. Schizas, Electronic Roads: Intelligent Navigation Through
Multi-Contextual Information, Knowledge and Information Systems,
International Journal, Springer, Volume
6, Issue 1, pp.
103–124, 2004. B. Karakostas, D. Panayiotakis, G. Fakas, Workflow Requirements Modelling Using XML, Requirements Engineering Journal, Springer, Volume 7, Issue 3, pp 124-138, 2002. |