
Panagiotis Papapetrou, Ph.D.
Aalto University, School of Science
Department of Information and Computer Science
Konemiehentie 2, Espoo, Room B331
P.O. Box 15400, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland
Office Tel: +358 9 470 23282
Mobile Tel: +358 50 529 7850
E-mail: panagiotis.papapetrou@aalto.fi
News:
- Oct. 31 - Dec. 09: Teaching Algorithmic Methods of Data Mining.
- Visiting Yahoo! Research Barcelona during the first two weeks of October.
- Jefrey Lijffijt, Panagiotis Papapetrou, Kai Puolamaki, and Heikki Mannila, "Analyzing Word Frequencies in Large Text Corpora using Inter-arrival Times and Bootstrapping". ECML PKDD, September 2011.
- Panagiotis Papapetrou, Aristides Gionis, and Heikki Mannila, "A Shapley-value Approach for Influence Attribution". ECML PKDD, September 2011.
- Orestis Kostakis, Panagiotis Papapetrou, and Jaakko Hollmen, "Artemis: Assessing the Similarity of Event-Interval Sequences". ECML PKDD, September 2011.
Currently:
Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Information and Computer Science at Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Also, affiliated with ALGODAN and HIIT. My superior is Prof. Heikki Mannila.
Research Interests:
My research interests include: algorithmic data analysis and data mining, analysis of citation networks and bibliometrics, subsequence matching, indexing non-metric spaces, and visual analytics.
Publications:
For a complete listing of my publications click here.
Peer-reviewed publications:
Technical Reports:
Theses:
Peer-reviewed publications:
2012
Panagiotis Papapetrou, Gary Benson, and George Kollios, "Mining Poly-regions in DNA". In the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (IJDMB), 2012. (To Appear) [pdf]
2011
- Panagiotis Papapetrou, Luiz Augusto Pizzato, Aristides Gionis, Xiongcai Cai, "Proceedings of the IEEE ICDM Workshop on Community Mining and People Recommenders", December 2011.
- Panagiotis Papapetrou, Vassilis Athitsos, Michalis Potamias, George Kollios, and Dimitrios Gunopulos, "Embedding-based Subsequence Matching in Time Series Databases". In ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), Volume 36, No. 3, Article 17, August 2011. [pdf]
- Alexios Kotsifakos, Panagiotis Papapetrou, Jaakko Hollmen, and Dimitrios Gunopulos, "A Subsequence Matching with Gaps-Range-Tolerances Framework: A Query-By-Humming Application". In Proceedings of the Very Large DataBases Endowement (PVLDB), Volume 4, Issue 11, pages 761-771, 2011. [pdf]
- Panagiotis Papapetrou, Aristides Gionis, and Heikki Mannila, "A Shapley-value Approach for Influence Attribution". In Proc. of the European Conference of Machine Learning and Principles and Practices of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), pages 549-564, September 2011. [pdf]
- Jefrey Lijffijt, Panagiotis Papapetrou, Kai Puolamaki, and Heikki Mannila, "Analyzing Word Frequencies in Large Text Corpora using Inter-arrival Times and Bootstrapping". In Proc. of the European Conference of Machine Learning and Principles and Practices of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), pages 341-357, September 2011. [pdf]
- Orestis Kostakis, Panagiotis Papapetrou, and Jaakko Hollmen, "Artemis: Assessing the Similarity of Event-Interval Sequences". In Proc. of the European Conference of Machine Learning and Principles and Practices of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), pages 229-244, September 2011. [pdf]
- Alexios Kotsifakos, Vassilis Athitsos, Panagiotis Papapetrou, Jaakko Hollmen, and Dimitrios Gunopulos, "Model-based search in large time series databases". In Proc. of Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA), May 2011.
- Orestis Kostakis, Panagiotis Papapetrou, and Jaakko Hollmen, "Distance Measure for Querying Arrangements of Temporal Intervals". In Proc. of Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA), May 2011. [pdf]
2010
- Kai Puolamaki, Panagiotis Papapetrou, and Jefrey Lijffijt, "Visually-Controllable Data Mining Methods". In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshop, (ICDM VAKD) December 2010, Sydney, Australia. [pdf]
- Kai Puolamaki, Alessio Bertone, Roberto Theron, Otto Huisman, Jimmy Johansson, Silvia Miksch, Panagiotis Papapetrou, and Salvo Rinzivillo, "Mastering the Information Age Solving Problems with Visual Analytics, chapter Data Mining, pages 39-56. Eurographics Association, 2010.
- Jefrey Lijffijt, Panagiotis Papapetrou, Jaakko Hollmen, and Vassilis Athitsos, "Benchmarking dynamic time warping for music retrieval". In Proc. of Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA), June 2010, Samos, Greece. [pdf]
- Jefrey Lijffijt, Panagiotis Papapetrou, and Jaakko Hollmen, "Tracking your steps on the track: Body sensor recordings of a controlled walking experiment". In Proc. of Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA), June 2010, Samos, Greece. [pdf]
2009
- Panagiotis Papapetrou, George Kollios, Stan Sclaroff, and Dimitrios Gunopulos, "Mining Frequent Arrangements of Temporal Intervals". In Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), Volume 21, Issue 2 (2009), Pages 133-171. [pdf]
- Panagiotis Papapetrou, Vassilis Athitsos, George Kollios, and Dimitrios Gunopulos, "Reference-Based Alignment in Large Sequence Databases", In Proceedings of the Very Large DataBases Endowment (PVLDB), Volume 2, Issue 1 (2009), Pages 205-216. [pdf][Oral presentation in VLDB 2009: ppt]
- Panagiotis Papapetrou, Paul Doliotis and Vassilis Athitsos, "Towards Faster Activity Search Using Embedding-based Subsequence Matching", In Proc. of Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA), June 2009, Corfu, Greece. [pdf]
2008
- Vassilis Athitsos, Panagiotis Papapetrou, Michalis Potamias, George Kollios, and Dimitrios Gunopulos, "Approximate Embedding-Based Subsequence Matching of Time Series". In Proc. of ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD), June 2008, Vancouver, Canada. [pdf]
- Vassilis Athitsos, Michalis Potamias, Panagiotis Papapetrou, and George Kollios, "Nearest Neighbor Retrieval Using Distance-Based Hashing". In Proc.of IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), April 2008, Cancun, Mexico. [pdf]
2006
- Panagiotis Papapetrou, Gary Benson, and George Kollios, "Discovering Frequent Poly-Regions in DNA Sequences". In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (ICDM DMB), December 2006, Hong Kong. [pdf] [Full Version: pdf ][talk slides in ppt]
2005
- Panagiotis Papapetrou, George Kollios, Stan Sclaroff, and Dimitrios Gunopulos, "Discovering Frequent Arrangements of Temporal Intervals". In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), November 2005, Houston, Texas, USA. [pdf] [talk slides in ppt]
2010
- Jefrey Lijffijt, Panagiotis Papapetrou, Niko Vuokko, and Kai Puolamaki. "The smallest set of constraints that explains the data: a randomization approach". TKK-ICS-R31, TKK Reports in Information and Computer Science, Espoo, 2010.
2008
- Panagiotis Papapetrou, Gary Benson, and George Kollios, "Generalized Methods for Discovering Frequent Poly-Regions in DNA Sequences".Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, Boston University, October 21, 2008.
2006
- Ching Chang, Raymond Sweha, Panagiotis Papapetrou, "Extending snBench to Support a Graphical Programming Interface for a Sensor Network Tasking Language (STEP)". Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, Boston University, July 14, 2006. [pdf] [Web-site]
2010
2007
2004
- "Discovering Aggregate Usage Profiles using Clustering Methods", B.Sc. Thesis [zip] (in Greek only)
Education:
- July 2009: Ph.D. in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Boston University.
Thesis Title: "Embedding-based Subsequence Matching in Large Sequence Databases". [defense slides in ppt]
Advisor: Prof. George Kollios.
- September 2006: M.A. in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Boston University.
Thesis Title: "Constraint-based Mining of Frequent Arrangements of Temporal Intervals". [defense slides in ppt]
Advisor: Prof. George Kollios.
- July 2003: B.Sc. in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, University of Ioannina, Greece.
B.Sc. Thesis Title: "Discovering Aggregate Usage Profiles in the Web using Clustering Methods". [Greek Version]
Advisor: Prof. Dimitrios I. Fotiadis.
Brief Bio:
- September 2009 - present: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Information and Computer Science, School of Science, Aalto University, Finland.
- June 2009: Received Ph.D. in Computer Science.
- September 2006: Received M.A. in Computer Science.
- January 2004: Admitted to the MA/PhD Program of the Department of Computer Science at Boston University, USA.
- June 2003: Received B.Sc. in Computer Science.
- September 1999: Admitted to the Department of Computer Science, University of Ioannina, Greece.
- September 1982: Moved to the city of Ioannina, my home-town (Northwest of Greece).
- July 1981: God made a mistake and brought me to the world in Patra, Greece.
Professional Activities:
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Conference/Workshop Organization:
- The first International Workshop on Social and Sensor Networks in Assistive Environments (SN2AE) - in conjunction with the ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) 2012.
- The first International Workshop on Mining Communities and People Recommenders (COMMPER) - in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2011.
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Program Committee Memberships:
- European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice on Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD) 2011, 2012.
- ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) 2011, 2012.
- International Conference on Discovery Science (DS) 2011.
- SIGMOD/PODS PhD Workshop on Innovative Database Research (IDAR) 2011.
- ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2010.
- IEEE ICDM Workshop on Visual Analytics and Data Mining (VAKD), 2010.
- ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2010.
- IEEE Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), 2010.
- Regular reviewer for the following Journals: TKDE, TKDD, DMKD, and KAIS.
- Instructor at the Department of Information and Computer Science at Aalto University (2010-2011) for the course of Algoritmic Methods of Data Mining (T61.5060).
- Research Assistant at the Department of Computer Science at Boston University (2004-2006).
- Teaching Assistantat the Department of Computer Science of Boston University (2007-2009).
- Instructorfor the course of Introduction of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science of Boston University (Summer 2008).
- Project Developer at the Medical Technology and Software Development Unit, (2001-2003).
- Member of the IEEE Computer Society.
- Non-PC reviewer for several conferences in the fields of Databases and Data Mining