Apostolos Papadopoulos
Visiting Professor of Practice
Research Interests
Professor Papadopoulos's research includes significant work at the I.N.R.I.A. Research Center in Paris, focusing on benchmarking spatial and spatiotemporal databases, and at the Greek Telecommunications Organization, where he designed telematics systems for industrial monitoring. His interests span scalable distributed query processing, point-of-interest recommendations, and drug-target interaction predictions. He also investigates network community participation causality and DoS attack detection using unsupervised anomaly detection, showcasing a diverse portfolio in database systems and applied computing.
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Alongside his role at MBZUAI, Professor Papadopoulos holds a faculty position in the School of Informatics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he serves as a full Professor, following previous appointments as Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and lecturer. His teaching portfolio includes courses such as file organization, information retrieval, design and analysis of algorithms, and computer networks.
Professor Papadopoulos has also worked as a Research Associate at the School of Informatics, contributing to both teaching and research initiatives. In parallel with his academic roles, he gained industry experience as a Computer Engineer at HellasCom S.A. and a Programmer at COMPUCON S.A., focusing on software development, systems analysis, and implementation. Earlier in his career, he taught C/C++ programming for Macintosh at the Computer Technology Institute (C.T.I.).
Professor Papadopoulos has also worked as a Research Associate at the School of Informatics, contributing to both teaching and research initiatives. In parallel with his academic roles, he gained industry experience as a Computer Engineer at HellasCom S.A. and a Programmer at COMPUCON S.A., focusing on software development, systems analysis, and implementation. Earlier in his career, he taught C/C++ programming for Macintosh at the Computer Technology Institute (C.T.I.).
- Ph.D. from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Diploma Degree, University of Patra
- Best Paper Awards: Best Knowledge Discovery Paper at ECML/PKDD 2008.
- Selected Papers: Our EDBT 2014 paper was invited for an extension to ACM Transactions on Database Systems, selected among all EDBT 2014 papers.
- A. Gacem, A. N. Papadopoulos, K. Boukhalfa: ""Scalable Distributed Reachability Query Processing in Multi- Labeled Networks"", Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE), 2020.
- G. R. Christoforidis, P. Kefalas, A. N. Papadopoulos, Y. Manolopoulos: ""RELINE: Point-of-Interest Recommendations using Multiple Network Embeddings"", Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), 2020.
- E. Kipouridis, A. Kosmatopoulos, A. N. Papadopoulos, K. Tsichlas: ""Dynamic Layers of Maxima with Applications on Dominating Queries"", Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, 2021.
- B. Liu, D. Papadopoulos, F. D. Malliaros, G. Tsoumakas, A. N. Papadopoulos: “Multiple similarity drug-target interaction prediction with random walks and matrix factorization”, Briefings in Bioinformatics 23(5), 2022.
- G. Baltsiou, A. Gounaris, A. N. Papadopoulos, K. Tsichlas: ""Explaining Causality of Node (non-)Participation in Network Communities"", Information Sciences, vol. 621, pp.354-370, 2023.
- C. Bellas, G. Kougka, A. Naskos, A. Gounaris, A. Vakali, C. Xenakis, A. N. Papadopoulos ""Facilitating DoS Attack Detection using Unsupervised Anomaly Detection"", Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM’22), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022.