Vasilis Efthymiou
Assistant Professor at Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University
Greece
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Top SchoolVasilis Efthymiou is an assistant professor and researcher with 11 years of experience specializing in the Semantic Web, entity resolution, and knowledge representation. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Crete and has combined academic roles with research positions at ICS-FORTH and industry stints at IBM and Trust Science, focusing on big data management and identity matching. His work bridges rigorous research—documented in a substantial publication record—with practical applications of AI/ML for trust and entity linking in large, noisy datasets. Currently leading Big Data Management at Harokopio University while affiliated with ICS-FORTH, he brings both teaching and hands-on research leadership to cross-disciplinary projects. Notably, his career reflects repeated collaborations between academia and industry, giving him a keen sense for translating semantic technologies into deployable systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Crete
Greek, English, German
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Github Skills (12)
entity-resolution9
vldb7
ontology7
dbpedia5
ontologies4
knowledge-graph3
python3
reproducible-research3
semantic-web3
text-matching3
data-analysis2
deep-learning2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vefthym/ParallelBlocking
Sep 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
vefthym/MinoanER
Feb 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:71 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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