AIT Community / Faculty / Resident / Sofoklis Efremidis

CONTACT INFORMATION Sofoklis Efremidis / Resident Professor Athens Information Technology PO Box 68, 19.5 km, Markopoulo Avenue Peania 19002, Athens, Greece Tel: (+) 30-210-668-2754 Mob: (+) N/A Fax: (+) 30-210-668-2703 Email:sefr (at) ait (dot) edu (dot) gr

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SUMMARY

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS AT AIT

EDUCATION more

DEGREES

Ph.D. Cornell University (Major Computer Science, Minor Mathematics)

M.Sc. Cornell University

Dipl. Ing. National Technical University of Athens (Electrical Engineering)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor of graduate level courses on

• Distributed Systems (Spring 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003)
• Operating Systems (Spring 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003)
• Advanced Operating Systems and Distribtued Systems (Summer 2004, 2005)
• Object Oriented Programming (Fall 2008, 2007, 2005, Spring 2005)
• Software Engineering (Spring 2009, 2008)
• Secure Software Engineering (Fall 2008, local)
• Database Systems (Fall 2008, 2007, 2006)
• Programming Languages (Fall 2004, 2003, 2002)
• Information Systems Modeling (Fall 2004, 2003, 2002)
• Unix and C programming (Cornell University, Spring 1992 to Fall 1993)
• Practicum in Operating Systems (Cornell University, Fall 1988, Summer 1990)

Teaching Assistant for

• Computer Architecture (Cornell Univeristy, Spring 1991)
• Introduction to Programming (Cornell Univeristy, Spring 1990)
• Numerical Analysis (Cornell Univeristy, Fall 1989)
• Computer Graphics (Cornell Univeristy, Spring 1989)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Representative of INTRACOM S.A. in Brussels, March 1999 – September 2003. Responsibilities included
  • Management of the Representation office of INTRACOM S.A. in Brussels.
  • Liaison with the EC and representation of INTRACOM S.A. to the EC events.
  • Preparation and coordination of submission of research proposals to the EC.
  • Representation of INTRACOM S.A. to project negotiations and reviews.
  • Representation of INTRACOM S.A. and INTRACOM S.A. Telecom Solutions to the EU Framework Program Consultation meetings.
  • Representation of INTRACOM S.A. Telecom Solutions to the FP7 Workshops
• Representative of the Federation of Greek Industries in the Working Groups of UNICE
• Project reviewer for EU IST and ESPRIT projects
• Establishment of Software Systems and Web Technologies laboratory at Athens Information Technology
• Co-heading of the Software Engineering and Web Applications Research Group at Athens Information Technology
• Heading of the Software Systems Research Group at Athens Information Technology
• Member of the peer review committee for recruitment of prospective applicants at Athens Information Technology
• Member of the Admissions Committee for the MSITT program of Athens Information Technology
• Project Coordinator, Communications Software Technologies, Development Programs Department, INTRACOM S.A., October 1996 to February 1999
• System analyst, designer, programmer. 19941996, Hellenic Air Force Headquarters

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• Research on dependable systems, distributed systems and architecut, middleware technologies and services, modeling, software engineering and configuration management, service oriented architectures, applications of sensor networks, porting of mobile applications, applications of machine learning techniques.
• Applicability and comparative studies of software development methodologies for Web-based tele-education systems.
• Research on program transformation techniques, in particular the mapping of abstract user-defined data types to concrete implementations with the use of transformation rules. Design and analysis of algorithms for program transformations. Design and implementation of programming language constructs as part of the experimental language Polya, as well as their applicability to algorithms that employ abstract data types.
• Research on embedding of Attribute Grammars in functional languages. ML was augmented to support definition and evaluation of attributes associated with terms.
• Research on theoretical aspects of Attribute Grammars, and the computational power of several classes of attribute grammars. Design and development of dynamic evaluators for Attribute Grammars

In more detail

• Technologies and infrastructures for the enhancement of the dependability of systems that manage critical infrastructures. Specialized technologies were developed for Linux in the context of this research.
• Technologies for software configuration management of home environment applications, case studies for 3 play service platforms.
• Technologies for supporting building operational services by employing sensor network technologies.
• Model Driven Architectures for the modeling and development of complex distributed services. Applicability of MDA to telecom services and mappings from platform independent to platform specific models for diverse middleware and hardware platforms.
• Middleware services for distribution and configuration of distributed applications. Formalisms for expressing distribution and configuration requirements as well as specifications of middleware capabilities for the support of distribution and configuration of distributed applications.
• Agent technologies and their application to service selection and provision in personal mobility context.
• Methodologies and service creation for the development of telecommunications services. UML and SDL were employed for the modeling and development of distributing telecom applications with TINA as the reference architecture and CORBA and Internet the distributed platforms.
   

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Software systems
• Distributed and dependable software technologies
• Web and Semantic Web technologies
• Sensor networks and applications
• Home networking and applications
• Applications and games for mobile devices
• Social networking applications
• Programming languages

INTERNATIONAL / NATIONAL PROJECTS

• EU IP project DESEREC (FP6-IST-2004-026600). 1/1/2006-30/4/2009, duration 40 months.
• EU STREP project COMANCHE (FP6-IST-034909). 1/9/2006-30/11/2008, duration 26 months.
• EU IP project I3CON (FP6-NMP-026771). Started 1/10/2006, duration 48 months.
• EU project COACH (FP5-IST-2001-34445).
• EU project MODATEL (FP5-IST-2001-37785).
• EURESCOM P924 (EURESCOM, subcontracting to OTE).
• EU ACTS project MONTAGE, 1998-2000
• EU ACTS project TRUMPET, 1996-1999
• EU ACTS project SCREEN, 1996-1998

TUTORIALS / SHORT COURSES / EXECUTIVE TRAINING

• SUN Professional Series on Java Programming
• Software Engineering
• Unified Modeling Language
• Object Oriented Programming
• Java Programming
• Distributed Programming in Java
• Programming Languages

STUDENT THESES SUPERVISED

• Design and Implementation of an object oriented language, April 2005
• A Simulator for self replicating and self repairing automata, January 2006
• Intrusion Detection Techniques, Fall 2005
• Intrusion Detector driven by program specifications (also: SMART “Syscall Monitoring and Auditing Tool), December 2006
• Ontology-Based Smart Home Networks, September 2007.
• Runtime version updating of software components, May 2008.
• A Peer-2-Peer Mobile Communication Framework, June 2008

SOCIETIES

ACM, IEEE, Technical Chamber of Greece

HONOURS/NOMINATIONS/DISTINCTIONS

EDITORIAL WORK / PAPER REVIEWING

• Member of the Technical Program Committee, SENSAPPEAL 2009, Athens, Greece
• Member of the Technical Program Committee, ICEST 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria
• Member of the Technical Program Committee, CCNC 2009, Las Vegas, U.S.A.
• Reviewer, Computer Communications Journal, Elsevier
• Reviewer, 4th IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications & Innovations (AIAI 2007)
• Reviewer, Mobile Summit 2006
• Program Committee, 3rd European Starting AI Researcher Symposium, STAIRS 2006
• Member of the Technical Program Committee, Eurescom 2005 Summit
• Member of the Technical Program Committee, Eurescom 2003 Summit
• Member of the Technical Program Committee, IS&N2000 Conference

PUBLICATIONS more

 
BOOKS

(Chapter) A Classifier Ensemble Approach to Intrusion Detection of Network Initiated Attacks, S. Koutsoutos, I. T. Christou, and S. Efremidis. Emerging Artificial Intelligence Applications in Computer Engineering. IOS Press 2007.

CITATIONS

PAPER AWARDS

INVITED LECTURES / CHAIRED SESSIONS / PANELS

• Talk “Software updates”, ESTIA Workshop, Stuttgart, 11−12 March 2008.
• Talk “COMANCHE”, EC IST Concertation meeting on Software Technologies, September 25, 2006.
• Talk “Systems Dependability”, Athens Information Technology Research Seminar, February 2006.
• Talk “Designing Dependable Systems”, Information Security Workshop, Athens Information Technology, May 5, 2005.
• Talk “Self Healing Systems: current views and future expectations”, AIT Research Seminar, April 22, 2005.
• Session "Service Creation", Paving the way for and Open Service Market, (IS&N99, April 27-29, Barcelona, Spain)

CONFERENCE/ SYMPOSIUM / WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

• DESEREC 2nd Training Workshop, September 2007, Athens, Greece

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