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I am an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University. My research focuses on crowd systems, their potential and their applications. I develop methods that help people collaborate, coordinate their efforts and innovate at-scale and efficiently, online or within physical spaces. To do so, I apply an interdisciplinary approach, which combines computational science (machine learning, agent-based modelling, mathematical optimization) with social sciences (personality testing, team building).
Prior to joining UU I worked as a Senior Researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), where I coordinated the European H2020 project CROSSCULT. In the past I have also collaborated with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute of Carnegie Mellon University as a visiting researcher, and with INRIA Nancy-Grand Est and the Public Research Center Henri Tudor as a postdoctoral fellow. I hold a Ph.D. and an Electrical and Computer Engineering degree from the National Technical University of Athens. I am part of the ERCIM and Marie-Curie alumni networks. |
News
09/2018
Our paper titled "When Crowds Give You Lemons: Filtering Innovative Ideas using a Diverse-Bag-of-Lemons Strategy" has been accepted at CSCW 2018. Read how involving crowds can help not only produce novel ideas but also effectively filter them. And of course, congratulations to our truly global (EU, US, China) co-author team that made this work possible.
06/2018
Call for papers! New Special Issue on Knowledge Discovery and User Modelling for Smart Cities, to be published by Springer's Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal. Deadline for submissions: October 30, 2018.
05/2018
Read the European Commission's short report on the outcomes of the High - level Horizon 2020 conference of The European Year of Cultural Heritage, and learn more about the future of (Digital) Cultural Heritage in Europe.
04/2018
Join our KDD 2018 Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and User Modelling for Smart Cities, this August in London. Workshop co-organized with colleagues from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom and ISISTAN, CONICET-UNICEN, Argentina. Submission deadline: May 8, 2018.
Join MobileCH 2018, the 2nd Workshop on Mobile Access to Cultural Heritage, this September in Barcelona. Workshop co-organized with colleagues from LORIA, France, University of Haifa, Israel and University of Peloponnese, Greece. Submission deadline: May 10, 2018.
03/2018
Participated as a speaker at the High - level Horizon 2020 conference of The European Year of Cultural Heritage, organised by the European Commission Directorate General for Research and Innovation at the beautiful Royal Museum of Arts and History of Brussels. We discussed policy developments, success stories and future challenges in the field of European cultural heritage and innovation. The conference was part of the programme of the European Year of Cultural Heritage.
02/2018
Our article exploring "Online Sequencing of Non-Decomposable Macrotasks in Expert Crowdsourcing" is now published at the inaugural issue of the ACM Transactions on Social Computing! Learn what are the non-decomposable macrotasks and how their optimization can leverage the potential of expert crowd work.
12/2017
Call for book chapters! Join us in creating the first book on Macrotask Crowdsourcing: Engaging the Crowds to Address Complex Problems. The book will be published by Springer's Human Computer Interaction Series. Abstracts due: February 1, 2018.
09/2017
- Our article on Reinterpreting European History Through Technology has just been published in ERCIM News.
- New paper accepted in ACM Transactions on Social Computing. Online version coming soon!
08/2017
- Join our ACM SIGCHI school on urban crowdsourcing this December in Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
06/2017
- Talking about social museum technologies and the CrossCult project at the National Archaeological Museum of Spain (introduction in Spanish, rest of the video in English).
- Interview on "Crowdsourcing: Research for a better digital work environment" is now published by science.lu. Many thanks to Tim Haarmann and Michele Weber for the insightful questions and feedback.
- After an intensive period of development and following a successful EU review meeting, we will soon be launching our four real-world pilot experiments in venues and cities across Europe, in the context of the CrossCult project.
Our paper titled "When Crowds Give You Lemons: Filtering Innovative Ideas using a Diverse-Bag-of-Lemons Strategy" has been accepted at CSCW 2018. Read how involving crowds can help not only produce novel ideas but also effectively filter them. And of course, congratulations to our truly global (EU, US, China) co-author team that made this work possible.
06/2018
Call for papers! New Special Issue on Knowledge Discovery and User Modelling for Smart Cities, to be published by Springer's Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal. Deadline for submissions: October 30, 2018.
05/2018
Read the European Commission's short report on the outcomes of the High - level Horizon 2020 conference of The European Year of Cultural Heritage, and learn more about the future of (Digital) Cultural Heritage in Europe.
04/2018
Join our KDD 2018 Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and User Modelling for Smart Cities, this August in London. Workshop co-organized with colleagues from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom and ISISTAN, CONICET-UNICEN, Argentina. Submission deadline: May 8, 2018.
Join MobileCH 2018, the 2nd Workshop on Mobile Access to Cultural Heritage, this September in Barcelona. Workshop co-organized with colleagues from LORIA, France, University of Haifa, Israel and University of Peloponnese, Greece. Submission deadline: May 10, 2018.
03/2018
Participated as a speaker at the High - level Horizon 2020 conference of The European Year of Cultural Heritage, organised by the European Commission Directorate General for Research and Innovation at the beautiful Royal Museum of Arts and History of Brussels. We discussed policy developments, success stories and future challenges in the field of European cultural heritage and innovation. The conference was part of the programme of the European Year of Cultural Heritage.
02/2018
Our article exploring "Online Sequencing of Non-Decomposable Macrotasks in Expert Crowdsourcing" is now published at the inaugural issue of the ACM Transactions on Social Computing! Learn what are the non-decomposable macrotasks and how their optimization can leverage the potential of expert crowd work.
12/2017
Call for book chapters! Join us in creating the first book on Macrotask Crowdsourcing: Engaging the Crowds to Address Complex Problems. The book will be published by Springer's Human Computer Interaction Series. Abstracts due: February 1, 2018.
09/2017
- Our article on Reinterpreting European History Through Technology has just been published in ERCIM News.
- New paper accepted in ACM Transactions on Social Computing. Online version coming soon!
08/2017
- Join our ACM SIGCHI school on urban crowdsourcing this December in Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
06/2017
- Talking about social museum technologies and the CrossCult project at the National Archaeological Museum of Spain (introduction in Spanish, rest of the video in English).
- Interview on "Crowdsourcing: Research for a better digital work environment" is now published by science.lu. Many thanks to Tim Haarmann and Michele Weber for the insightful questions and feedback.
- After an intensive period of development and following a successful EU review meeting, we will soon be launching our four real-world pilot experiments in venues and cities across Europe, in the context of the CrossCult project.