Dimitris Papadias (PhD, NTU Athens)
Room 3555  Department of Computer Science and Engineering Hong Kong University of Science and Technology  Clearwater Bay, Hong Kong   dimitris@cs.ust.hk Publications

General Information

I am a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Before joining HKUST in 1997, I worked and studied at the German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD), the  National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA, Maine), the University of California at San Diego, the Technical University of Vienna, the National Technical University of Athens, Queen's University (Canada), and University of Patras (Greece).

I have also spent some time as a Visiting Researcher at INRIA, Sophia Antipolis in France. During 2007, I was a Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore.

Research

Spatial, spatio-temporal databases and everything that looks interesting (mostly database related).

I have been awarded the Cor-Baayen Award from the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM). 

List of publications from DBLP.  Full list and soft copies of my papers. Citations by Google Scholar.

Ph.D Supervision

Current Ph.D Students:

Lixing Wang (since Sept. 08),

Stavros Papadopoulos (since Sept. 05).

Graduated Ph.D Students:

Yin (David) Yang (Vis. Scholar, HKUST).

Alexander Markowetz (Asst. Prof. at University of Bonn, Germany),

Kyriakos Mouratidis (Asst. Prof. at Singapore Management University),

Jun (Bobby) Zhang (Asst. Prof. at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore),

Yufei (Tony) Tao (Prof. at Chinese University of Hong Kong),

Panos Kalnis (Assoc. Prof. at KAUST, Saudi Arabia),

Nikos Mamoulis (Assoc. Prof. at Hong Kong University).

Professional Activities

Program Committee Memberships.

Associate Editor of the Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) Journal

Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)

Editorial Advisory Board of Information Systems.

Area Editor of Encyclopedia of Database Systems.

Program Vice-Chair of ICDE 08, Program Co-Chair of SSTD 07, Publicity and Publications Chair of VLDB 02, General Co-Chair of SSD 99.

Member of the Hong Kong RGC Engineering Panel, Sept 03 – Sept 05.

Teaching

CSIT 530 Advanced Database Systems: MSc in Information Technology Course (Spring 09, Spring 08, Spring 06, Spring 05)

COMP 231 Database Systems (Spring 09, Fall 05, Spring 05, Spring 03, Spring 02, Spring 01, Spring 98, Spring 97).

COMP 530  Database Architecture and Implementation (Fall 08, Spring 08, Fall 05, Fall 04, Fall 99)

CS2102/CS2102S Database Systems, IT2002 Database Technology and Management, National University of Singapore (Fall 07)

COMP 630K Advanced Topics in Database Research (Fall 09, Fall 06)

Short Course on Data Warehouses, OLAP and Data Mining: CPEP Course (Fall 01)

COMP 630C Spatial, Image and Multimedia Databases (Fall 00, Spring 97)

COMP 271  Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Spring 99)

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