Christodoulos Efstathiades
Assistant Professor
Dr. Christodoulos Efstathiades is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at CIIM. He has held positions both in academia and industry in the fields of Data Management, Data Science and Analytics. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), a MSc in Networked Computer Systems from University College London (UCL) and a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Cyprus.
He had worked as a Data Analytics Engineer at the Bank of Cyprus and as a Technology Consultant and Data Engineer at EY Cyprus. He has been a Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the European University Cyprus and has also taught at the University of Cyprus. Dr. Efstathiades has also been an academic member of the Center of Excellence in Risk and Decision Sciences (CERIDES) where he had worked on various R&D projects.
He held R&D appointments at the Institute for the Management of Information Systems of the “Athena” Research Center, at NTUA as a Marie Curie Fellow, at George Mason University (USA) and at the University of Cyprus, where he has worked extensively on National and European projects in the area of Big Data management and analysis and the application of data mining and machine learning in other sciences.
His current research interests lie in the areas of database systems and geospatial data management for big data, genomic data science and the application of data mining and machine learning in other sciences.