Manos is a Research & Teaching Assistant at the CY Cergy Paris University in France, doing a PhD in Computer Science on "Quality & Privacy in User-generated Big Data: Algorithms & Techniques".
He holds an MSc in Science & Technology of Electrical & Computer Engineering and an Engineer's Degree (5-year programme) in Computer & Communication Engineering from the University of Thessaly in Greece.
His broad research interests focus in (but are not limited to) the area of Ubiquitous Computing, Internet of Things and especially Crowd Sensing and Information Privacy.
Assisted the preparation and conducting of 2 undergraduate (<i>Developing Applications for Mobile Devices</i> and <i>Web Services & Service Oriented Architectures</i>) and 3 graduate (<i>Advanced Databases</i>, <i>Data Integration & Warehouses</i>, and <i>Embedded Java Workshop</i>) courses.
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Supervised 7 undergraduate students for 3 internships and 1 project.
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<h2class="organization">LET'S GO travel net</h2>
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IT Consultant
<divclass="date">(Oct 2015 - Sep 2016)</div>
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Designed <i>Live Like Local</i>, a collaborative cross-platform framework that facilitates the communication of citizens with local authorities.
Let visitors discover how the locals live, and allow businesses to offer unique experiences and maximize their profits.
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<h2class="organization">CERN</h2>
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Intern
<divclass="date">(Jul - Sep 2015)</div>
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Asserted with Google Test and further developed <i>CernVM WebAPI</i>, an infrastructure in C++ that enables launching computational jobs on volunteer, cluster and cloud nodes.
Supported with this technology <i>Virtual Atom Smasher</i>, a CERN interactive educational game in JavaScript, and upgraded its UI.
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<h2class="organization">University of Thessaly</h2>
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Graduate Assistant
<divclass="date">(Sep 2014 - Jun 2015)</div>
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Assisted the preparation and conducting of 2 undergraduate courses (<i>Concurrent Programming</i> and <i>System Programming</i>).
<h4class="thesis">Quality & Privacy in User-generated Big Data: Algorithms & Techniques</h4>
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Exploring integration issues for spatiotemporal at crowdsourcing platforms and understanding the impact to the privacy of personal information.
Studying matters relating to the effect of size of data to the quality and the impact of improved quality on users' privacy.
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<h2class="university">University of Thessaly</h2>
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Master of Science (MSc), Science & Technology of Electrical & Computer Engineering
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<h4class="thesis">Mechanisms for the Dynamic Installation & Control of Data Collection Tasks on Smartphones</h4>
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Extended <i>EasyHarvest</i> to support the flexible development, installation and activation of dynamic standalone and collaborative privacy mechanisms using Wi-Fi Direct on mobile personal devices, as independently developed software components that can be used in conjunction with sensing applications that run on the device.
Engineer's Degree (5-year programme), Computer & Communication Engineering
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<h4class="thesis">Deployment & Controlled Execution of Sensing Tasks on Smartphones</h4>
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Built <i>EasyHarvest</i>, a crowdsourcing framework that simplifies the deployment and controlled execution of large-scale sensing applications on Android smartphones via a single web interface. Introduced a RESTful API in Java on top of Tomcat for client-server communication and data collection organized in SQL and XML structures.
