
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name: Ioannis Karydis
Email: karydis@ionio.gr
Postal address: 7, Rizospaston Voulefton av., 49100 Corfu, Greece
Date & Place of Birth: 27th April 1979, Athens, Greece
Military obligations: Fulfilled
ACADEMICS
PhD in Computer Science
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Grade: Excellent
Duration: April 2002 – June 2006
Thesis Title: Mining and retrieval methods for acoustic and symbolic musical data.
Supervisor: prof. Yannis Manolopoulos.
MSc Advanced Methods in Computer Science
Queen Mary, University of London, UK, Scholar of EPSRC, Grade: Pass, Study duration: 09/2000-10/2001, MSc modules:
- Interactive Systems Design – Interactive interfaces design, theory and practice (Software DVD Player Interface design in Visual Basic 6 & MSc Thesis in Java).
- Parallel Programming and Architectures – Theory of structure and architecture of parallel systems, practice in parallel video compression using the DCT algorithm in C.
- Multimedia Systems – Image, sound, real-time broadcasting & Internet multimedia theory, multimedia databases, data compression. Practice in multimedia application (‘Learn Greek for Tourists’) including content and interface design using Macromedia Director.
- Computer Mediated Communication – Computer based human communication systems theory. General human communication theory. Practice in already existing systems ("RVM" – Lucent Technologies).
- MSc Thesis, ‘Voice Enabled Email Browser’ –Email Client design using standard input/output devices (keyboard, mouse, monitor) as well as vocal commands. The main target of the research was the best design of the interface (trade-off between standard & non standard i/o devices) in order to increase the productivity & satisfaction of the user. Written in Java.
Honours BEng Engineering Science & Technology
Brunel University, UK, Grade: 2.2, Study duration: 09/1997-06/2000.
BEng Dissertation /
BEng Final Year Project: ‘An Infrared Communication System’ – Design of a communication application using infrared for industrial environments. Drivers and interface development (real-time "chat-board", transfer status informational windows for file transfers and security). The application’s main target was the industrial environments, thus high error correction design algorithms have been implemented to support the peculiarities of industrial environments.
High-school leaving Certificate
Graduated in June 17th, 1997. Grade 18 & 6 tenths (18 6/10) out of 20. 2nd High School, Corfu, Greece.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My current research interests focus on Content-Based Music Information Retrieval, Music Data Mining as well as Multimedia Information Retrieval) as well as the development of systems for the dissemination/retrieval of cultural content. Some of my latest research is on:
- Musical genre classification
- Musical genre classification
- Voice separation in polyphonic music
- Continuous querying in musical streams
- Design of cultural informational systems
- Music information retrieval user interface design
- Musical data similarity using contextual information
- Security issues in databases
FUNDING AND PROJECTS
- Scholar of General Secretariat for Research and Technology during PhD studies, 2002-2006. Budget: approx. 33.000 Euros. Role: Main researcher.
- "Data Management in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks". Funding: General Secretariat for Research and Technology, 2005-2006. Budget: approx. 127.000 Euros. Role: Member of the research team, software development and implementation of experimental methods from the researched areas.
- "A Flexible Music Data Management System Using Combination Query Criteria”. Funding: General Secretariat for Research and Technology, 2006-2007. Budget: approx. 600.000 Euros. Role: Member of the research team, research and develop methods for musical data management using combination query criteria.
- "EuDML - European Digital Mathematics Library". Partially funded by the EC, 2010-2013. Cumulative Budget: 1.6 mil Euros. Partner budget: approx. 85.000 Euros. Role: Member of the Ionian University partner research team, design and develop the Hellenic Digital Mathematics Library and provide content to EuDML.
WEBSITE DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
- Design and development of static website for the conference 5th Workshop on Distributed Data and Structures (WDAS 2003). http://delab.csd.auth.gr/wdas2003/
- Design and development of static website for the Hellenic Association of Informatics and Communications Technologies in Agriculture (HAICTA). http://delab.csd.auth.gr/epege/
- Design and development of static website for the conference 5th HEllenice Data Management Symposium (HDMS 2006). http://delab.csd.auth.gr/hdms2006/
- Design and development of static website for the conference 10th International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN 2007). http://delab.csd.auth.gr/eann2007/
- Design and development of dynamic website for the sailing team GRE1364. The website uses technologies such as PHP, AJAX, SQLite, CSS3, web 2.0 services. http://www.gre1364.gr/
- Design and development of dynamic website for the Hellenic Digital Mathematics Library. The website uses user-friendly URLs, customised google search and dissemination of content for online & offline reading. The website uses technologies such as PHP, LightBox, MySQL, CSS3. http://www.hdml.gr/
- Design and development of dynamic website for the Monasteries of Crete. The website uses technologies such as PHP, MySQL. http://karydis.ionio.gr/monasteries/
- Customisation of Wordpress CMS for the Corfu Volunteering Network. http://www.cfu4u.org/
- Design and development of dynamic website for the Europe of Cultures Forum - Andriatic & Ionian Chapter. The website is a custom made CMS with functions for newsletter, email list management, user privileges access and on-the-fly image creation. The website uses technologies such as PHP, MySQL. http://eocf-ai.culturepolis.org/
- Design and development of dynamic website for conference registration. The website uses technologies such as PHP, MySQL. Used already by the following conferences: Εann 2007, Aiai 2009, Icann 2010, Psd 2010, Eann 2011, Aiai 2011. http://karydis.ionio.gr/confregtool/
- Design and development of dynamic website for personal use. The website uses technologies such as PHP, MySQL, AJAX, RSS, web 2.0 services. http://www.jonjon.gr/
- Supervision of design and development of dynamic website for cultural content aggregation and redistribution for Corfu island at the module of Cultural Informatics of the Dept. of Informatics of the Ionian University, Greece. The website uses technologies such as PHP, MySQL, web 2.0 services, RSS, Faceted Search. http://karydis.ionio.gr/~corfuculturerss/
- Design and development of dynamic website for student assignments management. The website uses technologies such as PHP, MySQL, AJAX. http://karydis.ionio.gr/labUploader/
OTHER LANGUAGE QUALIFICATIONS
- University of Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English, grade C, June 1996.
- French Language Certificate (Certificat de Langue Francaise), D.E.L.F 1, grade "Pass" (Passable), May 1995.
- D.E.L.F 2nd degree (2nd degré), grade "Pass" (Passable), May 1996
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
In conferences
- Karydis, Ι., Nanopoulos, Α., Manolopoulos, Υ.: "An Efficient Algorithm for Mining Maximum-Length Repeating Patterns in Music Objects", Proceedings 9th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics, pp. 375-387, 2003. pdf | bib
- Karydis I., Nanopoulos A., Papadopoulos A., Manolopoulos Y.: "Audio Indexing for Efficient Music Information Retrieval", Proceedings International Multimedia Modelling Conference, pp. 22-29, 2005. pdf | bib
- Karydis I., Nanopoulos A., Papadopoulos A., Manolopoulos Y.: "Music Retrieval in P2P Networks under the Warping Distance", International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, pp. 100-107, 2005. pdf | bib
- Karydis I., Nanopoulos A., Papadopoulos A., Katsaros, D., Manolopoulos Y.: "Content-Based Music Information Retrieval in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks", International Symposium in Music Information Retrieval, pp.137-144, 2005. pdf | bib
- Karydis I.: "Symbolic Music Genre Classification based on Note Pitch and Duration", Proceedings 10th Advances in Databases and Information Systems, pp. 329-338, 2006. (Best student paper award) pdf | bib
- Karydis, I., Nanopoulos, A., Manolopoulos, Y.: "Symbolic Musical Genre Classification based on Repeating Patterns", Proceedings Workshop on Audio and Music Computing for Multimedia, ACM Multimedia, pp. 53-58, 2006. pdf | bib
- Kontaki, M., Karydis, I, Manolopoulos, Y: "Content-based Information Retrieval in Streaming Music", Proceedings of Pan-Hellenic Conference in Informatics, pp.249-259, 2007. pdf | bib
- Karydis, I., Nanopoulos, A., Papadopoulos, A., Cambouropoulos, E., Manolopoulos, Y.: "Horizontal and Vertical Integration/Segregation in Auditory Streaming: A Voice Separation Algorithm for Symbolic Musical Data", Proceedings Sound and Music Computing Conference, pp.299-306, 2007. pdf | bib
- Karydis, I., Nanopoulos, A., Papadopoulos, A., Cambouropoulos, E.: "VISA: The voice integration/segregation algorithm", Proceedings International Symposium in Music Information Retrieval, pp. 445-448, 2007. pdf | bib
- Karydis, I., Laopodis, V.: "Web 2.0 Cultural Networking", Proceedings of 13th Pan-Hellenic Conference in Informatics, 2009. bib
- Karydis, I., Nanopoulos, A., Gabriel, H.-H., Spiliopoulou, M.: "Tag-Aware Spectral Clustering of Music Items", Proceedings International Society for Music Information Retrieval, pp. 159-164, 2009. pdf | bib
- Karydis, I., Radovanovic, M., Nanopoulos, A. Ivanovic, M.: "Looking Through the 'Glass Ceiling': A Conceptual Framework for the Problems of Spectral Similarity", Proceedings International Society for Music Information Retrieval, pp. 273-278, 2010. pdf | bib
- Sioutas, S., Magkos, E., Karydis, I., Verykios, V.S.: "Uncertainty for Anonymity and 2 Dimensional Range Query Distortion", Proceedings Privacy in Statistical databases, pp. 85-96, 2010. pdf | bib
- Nanopoulos, A., Karydis, I.: "Know thy Neighbor: Combining Audio Features and Social Tags for Effective Music Similarity", Proceedings International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2011. pdf | bib
- Karydis, I., Nanopoulos, A.: "Audio-to-Tag Mapping: A Novel Approach for Music Similarity Computation", Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, 2011. pdf | bib
- Karydis, I., Deliyannis, I., Floros, A.: "Augmenting Virtual-Reality Environments with Social-Signal Based Music Content", Proceedings International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, 2011. pdf | bib
- Deliyannis, I., Karydis, I.: "Producing and Broadcasting Non-Linear Art-Based Content through Open Source Interactive Internet-TV", Proceedings European Interactive TV Conference, 2011. pdf | bib
- Tsolis, D., Sioutas, S., Panaretos, A., Karydis, I., Oikonomou, K.: "Decentralized Digital Content Exchange and Copyright Protection via P2P Networks", Proceedings IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, 2011. pdf | bib
- Deliyannis, I., Karydis, I., Anagnostou, K.: "Enabling Social Software-Based Musical Content for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds", Proceedings Internet Technologies and Applications, 2011. pdf | bib
- Sioutas, S., Tsichlas, K., Karydis, I., Manolopoulos, Y., Theodoridis, Y.: "NEFOS: Rapid Cache-Aware Range Query Processing with Probabilistic Guarantees", Proceedings Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2011. pdf | bib
- Boletsis, C., Gratsani, A., Chasanidou, D., Karydis, I., Kermanidis K.: "Comparative Analysis of Content-based and Context-based Similarity on Musical Data", Proceedings Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, 2011. pdf | bib
In journals
- Karydis, I., Nanopoulos, A., Papadopoulos, A., Manolopoulos, Y.: "Evaluation of Similarity Searching Methods for Music Data in Peer-to-Peer Networks", International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining, vol. 1, no.2, pp. 210-228, 2006. pdf | bib
- Karydis, Ι., Nanopoulos, Α., Manolopoulos, Υ.: "Finding Maximum-Length Repeating Patterns in Music Databases", Multimedia Tools & Applications, Vol.32, No.1, pp. 49-71, 2007. pdf | bib
- Karydis I., Nanopoulos A., Papadopoulos A., Katsaros, D., Manolopoulos, Y.: "Music Retrieval over Wireless Ad-hoc Networks", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol.16, No.6, pp.1152-1162, 2008. pdf | bib
- Sioutas, S., Magkos, E., Karydis, I., Verykios, V. S.: "Uncertainty for Privacy and 2-Dimensional Range Query Distortion", Journal of Computing Science and Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 210-222, 2011. pdf | bib
Book chapters
- Karydis I., Nanopoulos A., Manolopoulos Y.: "Mining in Music Databases", chapter in book "Processing and Managing Complex Data for Decision Support", IDEA Group, pp. 340-374, 2006. pdf | bib
- Karydis I., Manolopoulos Y.: "Music Information Retrieval in P2P Networks", chapter in book "Intelligent Music Information Systems: Tools and Methodologies", IGI Global, pp. 190-216, 2007. pdf | bib
Documents and citations by google scholar
WORKING EXPERIENCE
- 1/05/2002 – 31/09/2003 Computer technician for RFS S.A.
- Instructor of module "Operating Systems" (theory and lab - 4 hours/week), ΙΕΚ Thessaloniki Ι, autumn semester 2003.
- Instructor of module "Computer Architecture" (theory - 2 hours/week), ΙΕΚ Triandrias Ι, autumn semester 2003.
- Instructor of module "Computer Networks" (lab - 8 hours/week), ΙΕΚ Thessaloniki Ι, autumn semester 2004.
- Instructor of module "Computer Networks" (labs - 2 hours/week), ΙΕΚ Thessaloniki Ι, spring semester 2005.
- Instructor of module "Computer Architecture" (lab - 2 hours/week ΙΕΚ Thessaloniki Ι, autumn semester 2005.
- Instructor of module "Operating Systems II" (theory - 2 hours/week), ΙΕΚ Thessaloniki Ι, spring semester 2006.
- Instructor of module "Computer Networks III" (lab - 2 hours/week), ΙΕΚ Thessaloniki Ι, autumn semester 2006.
- Instructor of module "Design and Development of WebPages I & II" (lab - 5 hours/week), ΙΕΚ ΑΚΜI, autumn semester 2006.
- Adjunct lecturer at the department of Informatics, Ionian University. February 2007 – August 2007. Courses taught: (a) Databases, (b) Cultural Informatics.
- Adjunct lecturer at the department of Informatics, Ionian University. September 2007 – January 2008. Courses taught: (a) Music Informatics, (b) Multimedia.
- Adjunct lecturer at the department of Informatics, Ionian University. February 2009 – August 2009. Courses taught: (a) Decision Support Systems, (b) Social and Legal Issues in Information Technology
- Adjunct lecturer at the department of Informatics, Ionian University. September 2009 – January 2010. Courses taught: (a) Databases II, (b) E-Commerce, (c) Digital Image Processing, (d) Information Systems Applications.
- Adjunct lecturer at the department of Informatics, Ionian University. February 2010 – August 2010. Courses taught: (a) Speech Processing, (b) Cultural Informatics, (c) Web Application Programming (postgraduate).
- Adjunct lecturer at the department of Informatics, Ionian University. September 2010 – January 2011. Courses taught: (a) Databases II lab, (b) Mathematical Programming, (c) Digital Image Processing, (d) Informatics Instruction I.
- Adjunct lecturer at the department of Informatics, Ionian University. February 2011 – August 2011. Courses taught: (a) Speech and Sound Processing, (b) Cultural Informatics, (c) Electronic Commerce (postgraduate), (d) Decision Support Systems.
- Adjunct lecturer at the department of Informatics, Ionian University. September 2011 – January 2012. Courses taught: (a) Digital Image Processing, (d) Informatics Instruction I.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating Systems
- Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7
- Linux
Programming languages
- .Net, Java, Visual Basic, C/C++, Pascal
Scripting languages
- Java Script, PHP, ASP, AJAX
Markup languages
Commercial packages
- Microsoft Office,
- Microsoft Frontpage,
- Macromedia Dreamweaver,
- Macromedia Flash,
- Adobe Photoshop,
- Corel Draw,
- Latex,
- Matlab
OTHER ACTIVITIES
- Program committee of Special Track on Database Theory, Technology, and Applications of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Trento, Italy, 2012.
- Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Interactive Multimedia.
- Program committee of conference "Engineering Applications of Neural Networks", Ionian University, Corfu, September 2011.
- Program committee of conference "Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations", Ionian University, Corfu, September 2011.
- Organising committee of conference "Privacy in Statistical Databases", Ionian University, Kerkyra, September 2010.
- Organising committee of conference "International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks", Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, August 2007.
- Organising committee of conference "East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems", Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, September 2006.
- Organising committee of symposium "Hellenic Data Management Symposium", Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, September 2006.
- Member of the scientific committee of Balkan Olympiad in Informatics 2006, Cyprus.
- Leader of Greek informatics delegation in the 17th International Olympiad in Informatics 2005, Nowy Sacz, Poland.
- Member of the scientific committee of Balkan Olympiad in Informatics 2005, Rhodos.
- Deputy leader of Greek informatics delegation in the Balkan Olympiad in Informatics 2004, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
- Organising committee of conference "5th WDAS", Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, June 2003.
- Organising committee of conference "9ο Panhellenic Conference in Informatics", Univeristy of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, November 2003.
- Deputy leader of Greek informatics delegation in the Balkan Olympiad in Informatics 2003, Iasi, Romania.
- Sailing (standard and racing degrees, member of the GRE1364 racing crew)
- Member of the Corfu Volunteering Network. http://www.cfu4u.org/
Ioannis Karydis
Saturday, 17 September 2011