लेखक: Vassilis Christophides

Kostas Stefanidis is a research scientist at ICS-FORTH, Greece. Previously, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the IDI Dept. of NTNU in Norway, with a scholarship funded by the ERCIM Marie Curie Network, and the CSE Dept. of CUHK in Hong Kong. He got his Ph.D. in personalized data management from the University of Ioannina, Greece, in 2009. His research interests lie in the intersection of databases, Web and information retrieval, and include personalized and context-aware data management systems, recommender systems, keyword-based search, and information extraction, resolution, and integration. Kostas has been involved in several international projects and co-authored more than 35 papers in peer-reviewed conferences and journals, including ACM SIGMOD, IEEE ICDE, and ACM TODS. He is the General co-Chair of the Workshop on Exploratory Search in Databases and the Web (Explore DB), and the Web & Information Chair of SIGMOD/PODS 2016, and the Proceedings Chair of EDBT/ICDT 2016.