Kostas Vassilakis

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Personal Data

Full name:	Vassilakis M. Kostas
Date of Birth:	22/4/1955
Home Address:	1770 str no. 13, Herakleion 71202, Crete, Greece
Work Address:	TEI of Heraklio, Stavromenos, Heraklion 71500, Crete, Greece
Telephones:	+30-81-379803(office), +30-81-280984 (home)
Telefax:	+30-81-250548
e-mail address:	kostas at teicrete.gr
Marital Status:	Married with two children

Educational Background

2003:	University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, PhD on Medical Decision Support Systems
1981:	Μc Gill University, Montreal, Canada, M.Sc. degree in Computer Science
1978:	National Kapodistrian University of Athens, B.Sc. degree in Mathematics
1973:	Papagou High School, High School Diploma

Languages

 Greek (native), English (very good)

Employment History

1989-present:	Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Heraklio. Associate Professor of Informatics (Science Department).  My main task is to teach miscellaneous Information Technology topics  for  specific needs of several deparments in TEI of Herakleion.  Apart from that, I am involved in various activities,  programs and projects such as:  Head of the Computer Science Division (1993-4, 1994-5, 2003-4, 2004-5). Projects (participation / coordination): Info Society, Third Community Support Framework: "Infrastructure exploitation to operate advance tele-education services in TEI of Crete", Coordinator, (2004-2006). Information Society Technologies, 6th Framework Programme, "Computational Intelligence for biopattern analysis in Support of e-Healthcare – BIOPATTERN", researcher, (2003-2007) Info Society, Third Community Support Framework: "Equipment for the labs of Informatics in TEI of Crete", Coordinator, (2003). Info Society, Third Community Support Framework: "Development of advanced telecommunication services and upgrade of network infrastructure at TEI of Crete", technical responsible, (2000-2002). Ministry of Hellenic Education, Second Community Support Framework: "Greek University Network (GUNet)", technical responsible for the TEI of Crete, (1997-2000). Ministry of Hellenic Education, Second Community Support Framework, "Communication network for the TEI of Crete", technical responsible, (1996–2000). various E.C. educational programs (ERASMUS/SOCRATES, TEMPUS, NOW & COMETT), as participant and coordinator (ICP-G-2009/11 for 1993-4). Other activities: Promoting teleducation (e-class platform) in TEI of Crete Network Operation Center of TEI of Crete
1983-1988	Computer Science Institute (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete.  System and Network (LAN & WAN) administrator. Responsible for the UUCP network (EUnet 1985-1988) in Greece. Participating in various local and European projects.
1983-1995	Hellenic Productivity Center. Organizing courses and seminars in Information Technology.
1982-1983	Ippokrateion General Hospital, Athens, Greece (while serving the army) as analyst/programmer developed software for statistical applications.
1981-1983	Greek Navy , Athens, Greece (while serving the army), as analyst/programmer developing application software.
1979-1981	Hellenic Community of Montreal, Canada, teaching Greek language and culture.
1979-1981	Μc Gill University, Montreal, Canada, teaching and research assistant in Computer Science Department.

Current research interests

• Medical Decision Support Systems

• Medical Informatics

• Data Networks & Operating Systems.

Technical Reports / Publications

• "Breaking the Trapdoor Knapsack enconding key", K.M. Vassilakis (Technical report- Mc Gill University, 1981).

• "A branch and bound algorithm for a special kind of linear integer programming problems" K.M. Vassilakis (Technical report- Mc Gill University,1982)

• "A Proposed Automatic Medical Diagnostic System Using Neural Networks and Expert Systems" G.M Papadourakis, K.M. Vassilakis, S. Micheloyannis, A. Ware, Proceedings of the 2^nd International Conference on Neural Networks and Expert Systems in Medicine and Healthcare, 256-263, 1996.

• "Expert Systems for Epilepsy Diagnosis", K. Vassilakis, S. Micheloyannis, presented in the 15^th PanHellenic Neurologist's Conference, 1997.

• "Classification of Epilepsies and Epileptic for children using computers", K. Vassilakis, S. Micheloyannis, Encephalos, Vol 37(2) 73-83, 2000.

• "Experience gained by the use of a computer diagnostic system for epilepsy", K. Vassilakis, S. Micheloyannis, presented in the 7^th European Conference on Epilepsy & Society, Athens, May 2000.

• "Decision support system for the Classification of Epilepsies and Epileptic Syndromes for children", K. Vassilakis, G. Papadourakis, S. Michelogiannis, Proceedind of the 4^th International Conference on Neural Networks and Expert Systems in Medicine and Healthcare (NESMED), 175-180 -NESMED 2001 (full text- PDF file). 

• "Decision Support System for Classification of Epilepsies in Childhood", K. M. Vassilakis, Lagia Vorgia, Sifis Micheloyannis, J Child Neurol. May;17(5):357-63, 2002

• "Decision support system as a tool to diagnose Epilepsies in children", K. Vassilakis, S. Micheloyannis, E. Marakakis, 1^st European Workshop on the Assessment of Diagnostic Performance, Milan, Italy, 7-9 July, 2004.