CV

Education

​​Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science
National Technical University of Athens
2005 - 2009
Thesis: "Educational and Collective Intelligence System Optimisation based on Behavioural Modelling and Machine Learning Techniques"

B.S in Electrical and Computer Engineering (five-year program)
Major: Informatics
​National Technical University of Athens
2000 - 2005

Research Interests

Computer-supported cooperative work
​​Social & crowd computing
​Online Communities
​Cyber-physical crowd systems
​Smart cities
Digital cultural heritage

Professional Experience

Utrecht University
2018 - present, Assistant Professor 

Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
2016 - 2018, Senior Researcher
2012 - 2016, Researcher

​Carnegie Mellon University 
2015 - 2016, Visiting Researcher

INRIA, Nancy Grand-Est
2011 - 2012, Postdoctoral Researcher

Public Research Centre (CRP) Henri Tudor 
2010 - 2011, Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Peloponnese
2009 - 2010, Lecturer

Hellenic Navy Petty Officers' Academy
2006 - 2007, Lecturer

National Technical University of Athens
2005 - 2009, Research Assistant and E-learning admin

Grants

​CROSSCULT - "Empowering reuse of digital cultural heritage in context-aware crosscuts of European history" 
​2016 - present​
European Commission, H2020 programme
Project Coordinator

ACCORDO - "Computational Methods for Human Use Optimization in Complex Crowdsourcing"
2015 - 2016
National Research Fund Luxembourg (FNR)
Principal Investigator

Experimedia BLUE - "Personalized Museum Exhibit Monitoring and Description Based on Individual Visiting and Cognitive Style"
2012 - 2013
European Commission, FP7 programme,
Project Leader

RHEA - "Collective Intelligence based Algorithms for the Improvement of Corporate Functions with Application on Operational Risk Management"
2012 - 2014
FNR and Marie-Curie COFUND for scientific excellence
Principal Investigator

​​Postdoctoral Fellowship
European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM)
2010 - 2012

Doctoral studies grant
General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Ministry of Development Greece
2005 - 2009

Bachelor studies grant
Konstantinos Sarantopoulos Foundation Greece
2000 - 2005

Selected Publications

1. Schmitz, H., Lykourentzou, I. (2018) Online Sequencing of Non-Decomposable Macrotasks in Expert Crowdsourcing, ACM Transactions on Social Computing, 1(1), 1-33.
2. Lykourentzou I., Kraut R. E., Dow S. P. (2017), "Team Dating Leads to Better Online Ad Hoc Collaborations",  20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
   and Social Computing (CSCW 2017), February 25 – March 1, Portland, USA.
3. ​Lykourentzou I., Antoniou A., Naudet Y., Dow S. (2016), "Personality Matters: Balancing for Personality Types Leads to Better Outcomes for Crowd Teams", 19th ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2016), February 27–March 2, San Francisco, USA. Honorable mention (top 5%).
4. Lykourentzou, I., Naudet Y., Vandenabeele, Luc (2016) "Reflecting on European History with the Help of Technology: The CrossCult Project", Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage, Catalano C. E and De Luca L. (eds.), The Eurographics Association.
5. ​Basu Roy S., Lykourentzou I., Thirumuruganathan S., Amer-Yahia S., Das G., (2015) "Task assignment optimization in knowledge-intensive crowdsourcing", VLDB Journal, 24(4), 467-491. Impact factor: 1.568.
6. Codocedo, V., Lykourentzou, I., Napoli, A., (2014) "A semantic approach to Concept Lattice-based Information Retrieval", Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 72(1-2), 169-195.  
7. Lykourentzou I., Claude X., Naudet Y., Tobias E., Antoniou A., Lepouras G., Vassilakis C., (2013) "Improving museum visitors’ Quality of Experience through intelligent recommendations: A visiting style-based approach", Workshop Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE'13), J.A. Botía and D. Charitos (Eds.), 507-518.
8. Lykourentzou I., Dagka F., Papadaki K., Lepouras G., Vassilakis C. (2012) "Wikis in enterprise settings: A survey". Enterprise Information Systems, 6(1), 1-53. Impact factor: 2.269.
9. Lykourentzou, I., Papadaki, K., Vergados, D. J., Polemi, D., Loumos, V. (2010) "CorpWiki: A self-regulating wiki to promote corporate collective intelligence through expert peer matching", Information Sciences, Special Issue: Collective Intelligence, 180(1), 18-38, ISSN 0020-0255. Impact factor: 3.364.
10. Lykourentzou, I., Giannoukos, I., Mpardis, G., Nikolopoulos, V., Loumos, V. (2009) "Dropout prediction in e-learning courses through the combination of machine learning techniques", Computers & Education , 53 (3), 950-965. Impact factor: 2.881.

Talks

High - level Horizon 2020 conference of The European Year of Cultural Heritage
03/2018
Title: "Technology Ecosystems and Living Lab Approaches for Digital Cultural Heritage" 

​European Commission Research Executive Agency
10/2016
Policy talk for “Understanding Europe – Promoting the European Public and Cultural Space” event

University of Pittsburgh, Personalized Adaptive Web Systems group
02/2016
Title: "Personalized Crowdsourcing​"

Carnegie Mellon University, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, ProtoLab
02/2014
Title: "Knowledge-intensive crowdsourcing optimization"

INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes
07/2013
Title: "Guided crowdsourcing: Introduction, current approaches and open issues"
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Xerox Research Centre Europe
02/2012
Title: "Tacit knowledge harnessing in corporate environments through collective intelligence and machine learning"

University of the Basque Country, Onekin Web Engineering Research group
02/212
Talk title: "Corporate wikis: Lessons from the past and perspectives for the future"

Service

Reviewer (last 5 years, selected):

- Transactions on th​e Web, Future Generation Computer Systems; Social Networks; Enterprise Information Systems; Computer Communications; Communications of the ACM; Journal of Network & Computer Applications; Applied Mathematics Letters

- Swiss National Science Foundation (project proposal reviewer)

Summer school organizer/lecturer

Next-generation location-based technologies: from urban crowdsourcing to the physical web
ACM SIGCHI summer/winter school, 18-22/12 2017, Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The future of crowdsourcing in developing countries -technical, design, social, and ethical implications
ACM SIGCHI summer school, Suzhou, China

Mentoring

Internship supervisor, LIST/Public Research Centre Henri Tudor
2017 - present, Mr. Konstantinos Papastathis
"Collaborative crowd technologies"

2016 - 2017, Mr. Efstathios Theodosis 
"Crowdsourced content moderation for smart city mobile applications"

2013 - 2014, Mr. Michel Carlino (master-level capstone project)
"Designing a responsive UI for the EXPERIMEDIA BLUE museum crowd simulator"

2012 - 2013, Mr. Xavier Claude (master-level capstone project)
"A crowd simulator for intelligent path recommendations in museums"

Ph.D. Dissertation Committee member, University of the Basque Country
02/2012, Dr. Gorka Puente Garcia
"Improving creation, maintenance and contribution in wikis with domain specific languages"

Bachelor thesis co-supervisor, National Technical University of Athens
2008 - 2010, Ms. Foteini Dagka (co-supervision with Prof. V. Loumos)
"Web 2.0 Technologies in Corporate Environments: Best Practices and Applications"

2009 - 2011, Ms. Fay Misichroni  (co-supervision with Prof. V. Loumos)
"Self-regulating collaborative system for content quality assurance using machine learning techniques"

Technical Skills

​​Mathworks Matlab for machine learning implementation
IBM CPLEX for mathematical programming/optimization
Java NetBeans for crowd simulations
Programming: Java, SQL, R, PHP, Javascript & Node.js, HTML/CSS

Languages

​​Greek (native)
English (Proficient)
Spanish (Advanced)
​French (Advanced)
​German (Basic)