Mr. Menelaos Bakopoulos is currently pursuing his PhD both at Center for TeleInFrastruktur (CTiF) at Aalborg University (AAU) in Denmark and Athens Information Technology (AIT) in Athens, Greece.
He received a Master in Information Technology and Telecommunications Systems from Athens Information Technology and a B.Sc. in Computer Science & Management Information Systems from the American College of Thessaloniki.
Since April 2008 he has been a member of the Multimedia, Knowledge, and Web Technologies Group.
EDUCATION
Ph.D.: CTiF Aalborg University Denmark & AIT, Sept. 2009 - Present.
Thesis Title: "Video Annotation and Enriched Media Authoring in Real-time Mobile Collaborative Environments ".
Advisors: Dr. Ramjee Prasad, Professor (CTiF), Dr. Zheng-Hua Tan (CTiF), Dr. Sofia Tsekeridou (AIT)
M.Sc.: Information & Telecommunications Technologies, Athens Information Technology, Sept. 2006 - March 2008.
Thesis Title: "A 3D J2ME Game Utilizing Autonomous Moving Agents"
Advisor: Dr. Sofia Tsekeridou (AIT)
BSc.: CS & MIS, American College of Thessaloniki, Sept. 2002 - July 2006
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Research Scientist.: Athens Information Technology, April 2008 - Present
Main Projects:
►Requirement Analysis, Video Annotation Research for AIT's contribution to EU FP7 Infra project. (Sept 2009 - Present)
►Lottery Fraud Detection Application analyzing over 1 million lottery transactions at a time for fraud. (Jan 2009 - Dec 2009)
►3D Flash Lottery Game / Simulation of predetermined server results. (Feb 2009)
►Tamper Proofing Tool for J2ME Games. (April 2008 - Dec 2008)
Additional Activities:
►Member of Local Arrangements Committee in 3rd ACM International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts. (April 2008 -Sept 2008)
►DSpace Installation / Customization for AIT Digital Library @ http://www.aitdspace.gr. (June 2009 - Sept 2009)
►Database Development / Configuration for AIT RFID Student Attendance Monitoring System. (July 2009 - December 2009)
►Assistant in Web Technologies Course for grading, tutoring, lab sessions in MSc. In Information Technology and Telecommunications Systems. (Sept 2009 - Dec 2009)
►Installation of Java Apache Mail Enterprise Server (JAMES) for AIT Website and creation of mailing list application. (Nov 2009)
►Minor AIT website maintenance activities related to J2EE Mailing List Application. (Nov 2009 - December 2009)
Teaching Assistant.: Athens Information Technology, Sept 2007- Dec 2007
►Responsible for grading and assisting students in the Object Oriented Programming course part of the MSc. in Information Technology and Telecommunications.
PUBLICATIONS
Journals:
I.T. Christou,M. Bakopoulos et al, Detecting Fraud in Online Games of Chance and Lotteries, Elsevier Expert Systems with Applications 2011.
Conferences:
Menelaos Bakopoulos, Sofia Tsekeridou et al, Command & Control: Information Merging, Selective Visualization and Decision Support for Emergency Handling. ISCRAM 2011.
Menelaos Bakopoulos, Sofia Tsekeridou, MobiSpell: Educational Mobile Game Design and Development for Teaching Spelling to Young Children. ICEC 2009: 295-296 2008. Menelaos Bakopoulos: A 3D J2ME game utilizing autonomous moving agents. DIMEA 2008: 513-514.
PATENTS
C. Dimitriadis, M. Bakopoulos, I.T. Christou: METHODS AND A SYSTEM FOR DETECTING FRAUD IN BETTING AND LOTTERY GAMES. Patent Filed with the US Patents and Trademark Office on May 25, 2010 assigned patent application serial no. 12/787,024.
C. Dimitriadis, M. Bakopoulos, I.T. Christou: METHODS AND A SYSTEM FOR DETECTING FRAUD IN COMPUTER SYSTEMS. European Patent Office. Patent no: 10168757.2 - 2212. Date: 30/Aug/2010
AWARDS
►He has Received Stavros S. Niarchos Award for Excellence in Computing 2006 and funds to continue with Masters Studies at Athens Information Technology.
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