Computer Science Engineering

Vasileios Lampos

Also known as Bill

Emails ****@******.*******.******@bristol.ac.uk

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Personal Website http://www.lampos.net/

Academic Reference http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~lampos/

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Education & Research

My fields of expertise are mostly driven by the general branch of Artificial Intelligence

and

include but are not restricted to Statistical Analysis and Learning, Probabilistic

Graphical

Models, Data Mining, Text and Sentiment Analysis. During my MSc I have also been taught

the basic principles of Cryptography (but this was 3.5 years ago).

Oct. 2008 Present: Ph.D. Student at Computer Science Department, Faculty of

Engineering, University of Bristol, UK advised by Prof. Nello

Cristianini. Now in writing-up status. Expected Thesis

submission date: Mid-February 2012.

Ph.D. Thesis Title: Detecting Events in Large-Scale User

Generated Textual Streams With Statistical Learning

Methods

Member of PASCAL2 Network of Excellence (EU funded

Project), Pattern Analysis and Intelligent Systems Research

Group & Intelligent Systems Laboratory (University of Bristol)

My work has been featured in several science or mainstream

media such as MIT Technology Review, New Scientist, Science

Daily, BBC Radio, ITV and so on (here are some media

references featuring my latest work: http://goo.gl/5xXJG).

You might also be interested to check Flu Detector

(http://goo.gl/0UK1), a demonstration of my findings. Every

day Flu Detector uses more than a million tweets to infer flu

rates in several UK regions.

More informal information about my Research is available

at http://www.lampos.net/research

Vasileios Lampos

Curriculum Vitae

December 2011

Personal Information

Full Name (First / Last)

2007 Sept. 2008: M.Sc. in Advanced Computing Internet Technologies with

Security, Computer Science Department, University of Bristol,

UK

M.Sc. Thesis Title: Weather Talk extracting weather

information by text mining more information on my

thesis can be found at http://goo.gl/nm3Bl

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Graduated with Distinction, ranked 1 in class. GPA: 78.22%.

Sept. 2001July 2007: Graduate student, Computer Engineering & Informatics

Department, University of Patras, Greece. GPA: 76.3%.

Languages

? Greek (native language)

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? Proficient in English? Studying and living in the UK since September 2007

? Internet Based Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL - iBT, June 2007,

score: 101/120)

? Certificate of Proficiency in English (ECPE), University of Michigan

? Was good in German (but haven t used this language for more than 10 years)

? Zentrale Mittelstufenprufung (ZMP), Goethe Institut

? Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsprache (ZD), Goethe InstitutWork Experience

Oct. 2008June 2011: Teaching Assistant (TA) at the University of Bristol. During

my time as a Ph.D. student, I also worked as a contracted TA

in several courses (see Table 1). Within my duties was to plan

assignments (or projects), to supervise and/or assist students in

the labs and to mark their assignments.

Table 1 Teaching Assistant at University of Bristol

For the

Students

Course Dpt. academic Tasks

attending

year(s)

Planning

Introduction to Artificial 2008/09,

Engineering assignments,

rd

Intelligence 3 year 2009/10,

Mathematics Supervising labs &

(EMAT31530) 2010/11

Marking

Data Analysis Engineering 2009/10, Supervising labs &

nd

2 year

(EMAT20210) Mathematics 2010/11 Marking

Pattern Analysis and

th

MSc & 4 Engineering 2009/10,

Statistical Learning Marking Only

year Mathematics 2010/11

(EMATM1400)

Advanced Topics in

th

Machine Learning and MSc & 4 Computer

2008/09 Marking Only

Data Mining year Science

(COMSM0204)

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Sept.

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Awards / Distinction s / Funding

? June 2010: Best Paper Award for my paper Tracking the flu pandemic by

monitoring the Social Web presented in CIP 2010, Elba Island, Italy

? Oct. 2008: DTA Scholarship for Ph.D. Studies, Computer Science Department,

University of Bristol . My Ph.D. was partially funded by NOKIA Research as well.

? Sep. 2008: M.Sc. with Distinction

Technical Skills

S ince I ve been around computers and software for most of my lifetime, I can easily

adapt and

learn anything new around them.

? Programming / Scripting / Typesetting Languages : Very good in Java, HTML/CSS,

MATLAB coding, PHP, good in C, Javascript, Shell Scripting, LaTeX and so on. Here is

a web page with programming samples of mine taken from my M.Sc. projects

http://www.lampos.net/programming

? Databases : MySQL (extensi ve use ) and Oracle

? Operating Systems : Windows (any edition/type ), Linux (in the past Debi an, but in

the last four years CentOS, i.e. Red Hat, due to University regulations), not scared by

command prompts

? Frameworks / Software / Libraries : Adobe Acrobat Professional, Apache HTTP

Server / Lucene / Mahout / Tomcat, Aptana, Bayes Net Toolbox (Probabilistic

Graphical Models in MATLAB), Drupal CMS, GIMP, git, Eclipse, MATLAB, OpenOffice,

MS Office, Netbeans, Senti - WordNet (Sentiment Analysis), Stanford Part of Speech

(POS) Tagger and so on

? Websites : Apart from designing and maintaining my personal website

http://lampos.net, I have created several others including:

? Pattern Analysis & Intelligent Systems Group, http://pat terns.enm.bris.ac.uk/

? See A Pattern Blog, http://see - a - pattern.org

? Intelligent Systems Laboratory, http://intelligentsystems.bristol.ac.uk

? Flu Detector, http://geopatterns.enm.bris.ac.uk/epidemics/

? Mood of Nation, http://geopatterns.enm.bris.ac.uk/mood/

Having a prettified layout was not a priority in the above websites .

Attendances

? Oct. 2008: Workshop on Modelling Cognitive Behaviour II (Bristol, UK)

? Feb. 2009: Skill Developing Session Version Control using Subversion (Advanced

Computing Research Centre, University of Bristol, UK )

? March 2009: Skill Developing Session Profiling, Optimisation and Acceleration

of MATLAB code (Advanced Computing Research Centre, University of Bristol, UK)

? April 2009: Workshop on Integrated Uncertainty Modelling for Decision Making

(Bristol, UK)

? May 20 09: Workshop Bristol Algorithm Days (Bristol, UK)

? July 2009: Workshop on Complex Systems and Networks (Bristol, UK)

? Sept . 2009: Workshop on Mathematical Modelling of Epidemics (Bristol, UK)

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? Sep t. 2009: Summer School The Analysis of Patterns ( Pula Science Park, Cagliari,

Italy )

? Nov . 2009: Workshop on Modelling Cognitive Behaviour III (Bristol, UK)

? June 2010: Conference Cognitive Information Processing ( Elba Island, Italy ),

where I present ed the paper Tracking the flu pandemic by monitoring the Social

Web

? Sept. 2010: Conference European Conference on Machine Learning and

Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases ( Barcelona, Spain ),

where I presented the paper Flu Detector Track ing Epidemics on Twitter

I have also attended numerous research oriented talks or presentations for general

purpose

topics.

Extra - Curricular or Voluntary Activities

? Radio Shows

? Oct. 2004 July 2006: Radio Producer at Sport Fm Patras 96.3 (Patras,

Greece) running the show Rock the Night

? Feb. 2004 June 2004: Radio Produce r at Radio Porto 96.3 (Patras, Greece)

running the show Low Frequencies

? Envisioned (together with Takis Tsiatsis ) and organised the first Artware Festival

that took place in 18 19 of May 2006. The purpose of Artware Festival ( its name was

derived by combining the words Art, Software and Hardware) was to prove that

Computer Science people are not artistically isolated nerds . The festival was a success

and the University decided to fund it on a yearly basis. Now, it has become a major

annual event of the Computer Science Department and the University of Patras,

Greece ( http://www.artwarefestival.com/2011/ ) .

? Reviewer or Program Committee Member in several Conferences or Workshops,

namely ECML PKDD 2009, IAPWNC 2009, ACM SIGKDD 2009 and WAPA 2010.

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