Instructors

	Koubarakis Manolis Professor Instit.: NKUA Tel: (+30) 210-7275213 e-mail: koubarak [at] di.uoa.gr
Personal Web Page: http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~koubarak/
Short Bio:
Manolis Koubarakis is a Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens. He has published over 150 articles to which other researchers of Artificial Intelligence, Database, the Semantic Web and Linked Data have referred to. His research has been funded by the European Commission (projects CHOROCHRONOS, DIET, BRIDGEMAP, Evergrow, OntoGrid, SemsorGrid4Env, TELEIOS, Optique, LEO, MELODIES, WDAqua and BigDataEurope), the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (project SCARE of EXCELLENCE action) the European Space Agency (project Prod-Trees) and industry (Microsoft Research and British Telecommunications). He is the coordinator of the LEO project which develops tools for the interconnected geospatial information and earth observation data, and apply them in precision agriculture. In 2014 he was president of the European Data Forum, the most important European conference on economic growth data in Europe. In 2015 he was elected Fellow of European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI).