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GEORGE ALMPANIDIS

Physicist, Computer Scientist

E-mail: almpanidis@gmail.com

Homepage: www.almpanidis.gr

ORCID: 0000-0002-6800-1574

Scopus: 8860867500

 

Education

2008  PhD in Computer Science, Department of Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Thesis title: “Multimedia Speech Processing”.

2000  MSc in Information Technology (Software & Systems), Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow.
MSc Thesis title: “A WWW Repository for Garbage Collector Benchmarks”.

1997  Degree in Physics, Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
B.Sc. Dissertation title: “Study of quasi-exactly solvable potentials with algebraic methods”.

 

Scholarships & Fellowships

2012-2013  ERCIM Alain Bensoussan Fellowship Grant for 2012-2013, co-funded as Marie-Curie Action ABCDE.

2004-2008  Research fellowship co-funded by the European Union and the Hellenic Ministry of Education in the framework of the program HERAKLEITOS of the Operational Program for Education and Initial Vocational Training within the 3rd Community Support Framework.

1999-2000  Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS) postgraduate studentship (University of Glasgow).

 

Academic & Teaching experience

2023-now  High School Teacher in Physics, day general and vocational upper secondary schools in Greece.

2015-2021  Associate Professor at Henan University, School of Computer and Information Engineering.

2012-2012  Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Macedonia, Department of Economics.

2011-2012  Lab Associate at Merchant Marine Academy of Macedonia.

2009-2012  Adjunct Assistant Professor at Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia, Dept. of Information technology & Technology of Computers, Dept. of Public Relations & Communication.

2008-2012  Adjunct Assistant Professor at Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Dept. of Marketing & Advertising.

 

Research experience

2013-2014  Postdoc Researcher at National University of Ireland Maynooth – Department of Computer Science and Hamilton Institute. Topic: Automatic Differentiation, Functional Programming, Brain Connectivity.

2012-2013  Postdoc Fellow (ERCIM) at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Computer and Information Science. Topic: Social Network Data Mining and Recommender Systems.

2001-2005  Participation in European research projects NoE FP6-2002-IST-1-506946 VISNET: Networked audiovisual media technologies, NoE FP6-IST-507752 MUSCLE Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning, FP5-IST-1999-20993 CARROUSO: Creating, Assessing and Rendering in Real Time of High Quality Audio-Visual Environments in MPEG-4 Context, FP5-IST-1999-11641 HyperGeo: Easy and friendly access to geographic information for mobile users.

2001-2008  Researcher as a member of the Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis Laboratory (Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).

 

Scientific work

Journal papers

  • Zhang, G. Almpanidis, G. Fan, B. Deng, Y. Zhang, J. Liu, A. Kamel, P. Soda, & J. Gama, “A Systematic Review on Long-Tailed Learning”. IEEE Trans. Neural Networks and Learning Systems, (accepted for publication), 2025. DOI: 10.1109/TNNLS.2025.3539314
  • Zhang, P. Soda, J. Bi, G. Fan, G. Almpanidis, S. Garcia, & W. Ding, “An Empirical Study on the Joint Impact of Feature Selection and Data Resampling on Imbalance Classification”, Applied Intelligence, vol. 53, pp. 5449-5461, 2022. DOI: 10.1007/s10489-022-03772-1
  • Yan, G. Almpanidis, & F. Gaojuan, “基于格网划分的道路最近邻查询算法” [“Road nearest neighbour query algorithm based on grid partition”]. 河南科技大学学报：自然科学版 [Journal of Henan University of Science and Technology (Natural Science)], vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 30-35, 2020. DOI: 10.15926/j.cnki.issn1672-6871.2020.01.006
  • Zhang, G. Almpanidis, F. Hasibi, & G. Fan, “Gridvoronoi: An Efficient Spatial Index for Nearest Neighbor Query Processing”, IEEE Access, vol.7, pp. 120997-121014, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2937667
  • Zhang, Y. Zhang, X. Shi, G. Almpanidis, G. Fan, & X. Shen, “On Incremental Learning for Gradient Boosting Decision Trees”. Neural Processing Letters, pp.1-31, 2019. DOI: 10.1007/s11063-019-09999-3
  • Zhang, G. Almpanidis, W. Wang, & C. Liu, “An Empirical Evaluation of High Utility Itemset Mining Algorithms”. Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 101, pp. 91-115, 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2018.02.008
  • Zhang, C. Liu, X. Zhang, & G. Almpanidis, “An up-to-date comparison of state-of-the-art classification algorithms”. Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 82, pp. 128-150, 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2017.04.003
  • Almpanidis, M.Kotti, & C. Kotropoulos, “Robust detection of phone boundaries using model selection criteria with few observations”, IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 287-298, Feb. 2009. DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.2009162
  • Almpanidis and C. Kotropoulos, “Phonemic segmentation using the generalised Gamma distribution and small sample Bayesian information criterion”, Speech Communication, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 38-55, Jan. 2008. DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2007.06.005
  • Almpanidis, C. Kotropoulos, & I. Pitas, “Combining text and link analysis for focused crawling – An application for vertical search engines”, Information Systems, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 886-908, Sep. 2007. DOI: 10.1016/j.is.2006.09.004
  • Xafopoulos, C. Kotropoulos, G. Almpanidis, & I. Pitas, “Language identification in web documents using discrete HMMs”, Pattern Recognition, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 583-594, Mar. 2004. DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2003.05.001

Conference papers

  • Zhang, B. Wang, K. Chen, R. Zong, B. Mo, Y. Men, G. Almpanidis, S. Chen, & X. Zhang, “Data-Driven Oracle Bone Rejoining: A Dataset and Practical Self-Supervised Learning Scheme”, in Proc 28th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, pp. 4482-4492, Aug. 2022. DOI: 10.1145/3534678.3539050
  • Fan, H. Xiao, C. Zhang, G. Almpanidis, P. Fournier-Viger, & H. Fujita, “Parallel High Utility Itemset Mining”, in Proc. 35th Int. Conf. Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, pp. 819-830, 2022. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-08530-7_69
  • Almpanidis and C. Kotropoulos, “Automatic phonemic segmentation using the Bayesian information criterion with generalised Gamma priors”, in Proc. 15th European Signal Proc. Conf. (EUSIPCO 2007), pp. 2055-2059, Poznan, Sep. 2007. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.40626
  • Almpanidis and C. Kotropoulos, “Phoneme segment boundary detection based on the generalized Gamma distribution”, in Proc. Int. Symp. Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2006), pp. 691-695, Montreal, Jul. 2006. DOI: 10.1109/ISIE.2006.295545
  • Almpanidis and C. Kotropoulos, “Voice activity detection with generalized Gamma distribution”, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2006), pp. 961-964, Toronto, Jul. 2006. DOI: 10.1109/ICME.2006.262692
  • Almpanidis and C. Kotropoulos, “Voice activity detection using the generalized Gamma distribution”, in Proc. 4th Panhellenic Artificial Intelligence Conf. (SETN-06), vol. LNAI 3955, pp. 3-12, Heraklion, May 2006. DOI: 10.1007/11752912_3
  • Almpanidis, C. Kotropoulos, & I. Pitas, “Focused crawling using latent semantic indexing- An application for vertical search engines”, in Proc. European Conf. Digital Libraries (ECDL 2005), vol. LNCS 3652, pp. 402-413, Vienna, Sep. 2005. DOI: 10.1007/11551362_36
  • Almpanidis and C. Kotropoulos, “Combining text and link analysis for focused crawling,” in Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR 2005), vol. LNCS 3686, part I, pp. 278-287, Bath, Aug. 2005. DOI: 10.1007/11551188_30
  • Xafopoulos, C. Kotropoulos, G. Albanidis, & I.Pitas, “Language identification of web documents using discrete HMMs”, in Proc. 2nd Hellenic Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (SETN 2002), vol. Companion, pp. 269-280, Thessaloniki, Apr. 2002.

Miscellaneous papers / reports

  • Almpanidis, “Multimedia Speech Processing”, 2008. DOI: 10.26262/heal.auth.ir.108629
  • Zhang, G. Peng, Y. Tao, F. Fu, W. Jiang, G. Almpanidis, & K. Chen, “ShopSign: a Diverse Scene Text Dataset of Chinese Shop Signs in Street Views”, arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.10412, 2019. arXiv: 1903.10412
  • Co-author of “MUSCLE Deliverable D5.1: Single Modality Processing – State of the Art Report”, MUSCLE – NoE FP6-IST-507752 Project, Sep. 2005.
  • Co-author of “VISNET Deliverable D30: Status of Audio and Speech Analysis”, VISNET – NoE FP6-2002-IST-1-506946 Project, Mar. 2005.

Participation / Presentation / Talks in Conferences / Workshops / Seminars

  • Programme “Artificial Intelligence in Education”, University of Patras, duration: 9 months (420 hours), ECTS: 18.0, 2024-2025.
  • Programme “Special Education & Training”, University of the Aegean, duration: 9 months (440 hours), ECTS: 17.6, 2023-2024.
  • Seminar “Adult Educator Training”, Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, duration: 2 months (150 hours), ECTS: 6.0, 2024.
  • Invited speaker at International Forum of Industrial Internet / Industrial Internet Summit, Chengdu, Jun. 2016.
  • International Big Data Expo and the Global Big Data Era Summit, Guiyang, May 2015.
  • 3rd World Emerging Industries Summit, Zhengzhou, Apr. 2015.
  • 14th European Workshop on Automatic Differentiation, Oxford, Dec. 2013.
  • Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience Symposium (TCIN 2013), Dublin, Nov. 2013.
  • ERCIM Symposium and ABCDE Seminar 2012, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, Oct. 2012.
  • Modern Information Systems & Wireless Communication Conf., International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki, Mar. 2010.
  • 2nd COST 2101 Management Committee/Working Groups Meeting, Kent, Nov. 2007.
  • Workshop on Signature and Handwriting Analysis for Person Identification (COST Action 2101, Biometrics for Identity Documents and Smart Cards), Kent, Nov. 2007.
  • 4th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN 2006), Herakleion, May 2006.
  • 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2005), Vienna, Sep. 2005.
  • International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR2005), Bath, Aug. 2005.
  • Digital Days Seminars (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Informatics, Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis Laboratory), Thessaloniki, 2005.
  • Summer School, “Speech and audio coding in telecommunications and multimedia”, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis Laboratory, Thessaloniki, Jul. 2004.
  • 2nd Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN 2002), Thessaloniki, Apr. 2002.
  • International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2001), Thessaloniki, Oct. 2001.
  • Digital Days Seminars (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Informatics, Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis Laboratory), Thessaloniki, 2001.

Reviewer in Journals / Conferences

  • Artificial Intelligence Review (Springer).
  • European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO).
  • IEEE Signal Processing Letters (IEEE).
  • IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing (IEEE).
  • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (IEEE)
  • Information Sciences (Elsevier).
  • International Symposium on Communications, Control & Signal Processing (IEEE).
  • Journal of Zhejiang University.
  • Knowledge-Based Systems (Elsevier).
  • Pattern Recognition (Elsevier).

Membership in scientific societies

  • Greek Computer Scientists Association (E.P.E.).
  • Greek Association of Image Processing & Digital Media (GAIPDM).
  • Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
  • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Computer, IEEE Computational Intelligence, and IEEE Signal Processing Societies.
  • International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).

Research interests

  • Information Retrieval, Search Engines, Data Mining, Social Networks, Collaborative Filtering, Recommender Systems.
  • Speech Processing, Speech and Speaker Recognition, Audio Segmentation. Multimedia Signal Processing.
  • Artificial Intelligence, Computational and Statistical Machine Learning, Distributed and Cloud Computing.
  • Natural Language Processing, Sentiment Analysis.
  • Information and Knowledge Management, Ontologies, Semantic Web.
  • Neuroscience, Brain Connectivity.

 

Professional experience

2010-2010  Instructor at Vocational Training Center IASWN – Java Programmer Certification.

2001-2008  Research Developer and Programmer as a member of the Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis Laboratory (Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).

2001-2012  Experimental development and research in Informatics. Development of software and information systems. Design and hosting of web sites (self-occupied). Administration, development and support of “Congress Manager” database for the organisation of scientific conferences (Diastasi Travel, Thessaloniki).

 

Information Technology skills

  • Operating Systems: MacOSX, Microsoft Windows, Unix/Linux/Solaris.
  • Strong knowledge of Java, AWT/Swing, Java Enterprise Edition, JSP, JSF, Servlets, RMI, EJB, JDBC.
  • Good knowledge of Object-oriented software design, UML, Requirements analysis.
  • Basic knowledge of C, C++, Dart, functional programming (Haskell, Scala) and Python.
  • Basic principles of Android programming, Pascal, Basic, Assembly, ActionScript, AppleScript, Rexx, Lingo.
  • Good knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, Networking. Basic knowledge of PHP, Perl, Unix shell scripting.
  • Good knowledge of versioning control systems, Git, SVN.
  • Design and development of relational databases, SQL, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, XML technologies.
  • Development of multimedia applications, digital processing of audiovisual signal, desktop publishing.
  • Programming in MapleV, Mathematica. Digital signal processing with Matlab and Octave. Statistical data modelling and analysis with R, SPSS, Minitab, SAS. Scientific writing and type setting with TeX/LaTeX.

 

Foreign languages – Personal skills

  • Excellent knowledge of English. Michigan Certificate of Proficiency in English (1994).
  • Basic understanding of Norwegian (B1 Level).
  • Completed military service (1998-1999).
  • Driving license, Type B (1992).