Pavlos Fafalios
Affiliated Researcher
Heraklion, Region of Crete, Greece
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Top SchoolPavlos Fafalios is an academic researcher and Assistant Professor with 11+ years of experience at the intersection of information systems, information retrieval, knowledge engineering, and the Semantic Web. He combines a strong academic record—PhD from University of Crete and over 50 peer-reviewed publications—with substantial postdoctoral stints at L3S (Hanover) and FORTH-ICS, where he now serves as an Affiliated Researcher. His work emphasizes interdisciplinary applications of semantic technologies, particularly for Cultural Heritage and the humanities, translating theoretical advances into domain-relevant systems. He regularly serves on programme committees for top conferences (ISWC, ESWC, HT) and reviews for leading journals such as ACM TWEB and JASIST, reflecting broad community recognition. Colleagues describe him as someone who bridges rigorous research and practical project delivery, with a track record of contributing to EU research projects since his early career. Based in Heraklion, Crete, he brings an international research perspective shaped by extended collaborations across Germany and Greece.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Exploratory and Semantic Search, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Exploratory and Semantic Search at University of Crete, Department of Computer ScienceDiploma in Engineering (Dipl.Eng.), Information and Communication Systems Engineering, Diploma in Engineering (Dipl.Eng.), Information and Communication Systems Engineering at University of the Aegean, School of Engineering
English, Greek, French
Github Skills (11)
claims5
querying5
fact5
corpus4
api3
nlp3
java3
similarity3
entity-extraction2
elasticsearch2
information-retrieval1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
fafalios/LDaQ
Apr 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
fafalios/sparql-ld
Apr 2015 - Apr 2021
Contributions:52 commits, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
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