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Michael Gr. Vassilakopoulos

Michael Gr. Vassilakopoulos was born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1967. He received a B. Eng. (1990) in Computer Eng. and Informatics from the Univ. of Patras and a Ph.D. (1995) in Electrical and Computer Eng. from the Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki. He followed post-doctoral studies at the Lab of Data Engineering of the Dept. of Informatics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has been awarded scholarships for undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral studies from the Scholarship Foundation of the Greek State. His B. Eng. thesis deals with Algorithms of Computational Geometry, his doctoral thesis deals with Spatial Databases and his post-doctoral research deals with Query Processing in Spatial Databases. Apart from the above, his research interests include Spatio-temporal Databases, GIS, WWW, Information Systems Integration, Multimedia and Programming Methodologies. He has published over 35 papers / chapters in refereed scientific journals, conference proceedings and books. He served as a member of the program committee and the organizing committee of international conferences and as a reviewer of several scientific journals and international conferences. He has participated in numerous RTD projects related to Databases, WWW and Information Systems. He has been with the Dept. of Applied Informatics of the Univ. of Macedonia, the Dept. of Informatics of the Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki and the Dept. of Informatics of the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki. For three years he also served the Greek Public Administration as an Informatics Engineer where he participated in the evaluation and supervision of several Information Technology projects. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the area of Databases at the Dept. of Informatics of the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki.
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