Bill Lampos

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Education

• October 2008 - now: PhD Student at Computer Science Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Bristol. Topic: "Tracking trends on the web using novel Machine Learning methods", supervised by Professor Nello Cristianini. Member of Pattern Analysis and Intelligent Systems Research Group (joint with the Department of Engineering Mathematics) and PASCAL Network.
• 2007 - 2008: MSc Student in Advanced Computing - Internet Technologies with Security Programme, Computer Science Department, University of Bristol.  Graduated with Distinction, ranked 1st in class. GPA: 78.22%.
• 2001 - 2007: Graduate student, Computer Engineering & Informatics Department (CEID), University of Patras. GPA: 76%.

Languages

• Greek (native)
• Proficient in English
  • living in the UK, Bristol from September 2007
  • internet Based Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL - iBT, June 2007, score: 101/120)
  • Certificate of Proficiency in English (ECPE), University of Michigan
• Very good in German
  • Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsprache (ZD), Goethe Institut
  • Zentrale Mittelstufenprufung (ZMP), Goethe Institut

Academic Work Experience

[ POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDIES (Ph.D.) ]

• Fall 2008, 2009: EMAT31530 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Teaching Assistant)
• Spring 2009: COMSM0204 - Advanced Topics in Machine Learning and Data Mining (Teaching Assistant)
• Fall 2009: EMAT20210 - Data Analysis (Teaching Assistant)
• Additional Reviewer for ACM SIGKDD 2009
• Program Committee Member for ECML PKDD 2009
• Reviewer for IAPWNC 2009 Workshop

[ POSTGRADUATE STUDIES (M.Sc.) ]

• Implementation of RSA 64-bit Encryption and Decryption as well as ElGamal 64-bit Encryption and Decryption in C programming Language. (Introduction to Cryptography Unit)
• Implementation of a concurrent proxy server that supports pipelining in the client requests. (Server Software Unit)
• Implementation of a concurrent proxy server that supports persistent server connections. (Server Software Unit)
• A report on the Timing Attacks. Timing Attacks are a part of Side Channel Attacks and their purpose is to exploit systems' security by extracting the secret keys / passwords (most of the times). You may download the report from this link.
• An essay about Privacy on Web 2.0 from a legal perspective. (Law and IT Unit)
• Implementation of mini adventure game (World of Zuul). (OO Programming with Java Unit)
• Implementation of a text based, able to operate over network version of Battleships game. (OO Programming with Java Unit)
• Implementation of Peg Solitaire game (C programming Unit)
• Implementation of a web site which conforms with W3C standards. Apache Tomcat together with JSP, XHTML, CSS, SVG, JavaScript and SQL (for the database) were used. (Web Technologies Unit)
• Implementation and emulation of an airport that uses a distributed database system. Each component of the airport has access to its own database (Oracle RDMS) and is able to communicate with the other components using an XML-based protocol. (Databases Unit)
• MSc Thesis. Weather Talk, extracting weather information by text mining [download pdf].
  View the visualisation tool at http://weathertalk.lampos.net/.

[ UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES ]

• Development of an application with interface that handles all the actions of a car workshop (using HTML, PHP, MySQL, Apache Server, Databases Course)
• Scientific Computation Projects - Faster ways in solving multidimensional equations (Vandermonde Arrays), Emulation of Arithmetics with reduced precision and error count (in MATLAB)
• Development of a system that simulates the communication of processes in a non-oriented network using internet stream sockets (in C, Distributed Systems Course)
• Implementation of Huffman and PCM encoding. Implementation and comparison of 8-PSK and 8-FSK systems (in MATLAB, Digital Telecommunications Course)
• Implementation of method of Finite Differences, of method of interpolation with cubic polynomials and of solving 2-dimensional differencial equation (border values problem using Gauss) (in MATLAB, Computational Methods for Differential Equations Course)
• Explanation and comments regarding the law for "The Licence Of Agreement" between the user and the owner-provider of a software product (Technology 's social and legal aspects)
• Development of a web-based e-library. The application was fully functional (sessions, accounts, system administration, system integrity). I used HTML, PHP, MySQL, XML and Apache HTTP Server (Internet Technologies Course)
• Thesis. Implementation of a system able to carry out web browsing from mobile devices. A  part of the project was the implementation of "RSS goes mobile", a system able to adapt RSS feeds to mobile devices. You may download my thesis text (in Greek language) from here.

Academic Interests

• Inference in Probabilistic Graphical Models
• Algorithms & Schemes for Pattern Analysis
• Development of Intelligent Systems on the World Wide Web

Additional Work Experience

• October 2004 - July 2005 and September 2005 - July 2006 - - Worked in Patras sports radio station, "Sport Fm Patras". The radio show (called "Rock the night") was about rock music and human emotions.
• February - June 2004 - - Worked in Patras radio station called "Radio Porto" (the owner is Mr. Antonis Agelakis). The radio show was called "Low frequencies" and was about gentle rock music.