Vasileios Lampos, Ph.D. Student

Ph.D. Student (Artificial Intelligence), Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol
Bristol, United Kingdom

Research field: Computer and Information Science - Artificial Intelligence
Identification and tracking of trends on the Web
Learning and Inference in Graphical Models
Data Mining, Information Extraction, Feature Extraction & Selection
Pattern Recognition & Analysis

Publications

Conference Proceedings (2)
- Vasileios Lampos, Tijl De Bie, Nello Cristianini (2010) Flu Detector - Tracking Epidemics on Twitter, 599-602. In European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases.
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- Vasileios Lampos, Nello Cristianini (2010) Tracking the flu pandemic by monitoring the social web, 411-416. In 2nd International Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing (CIP 2010).
  http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epi...
  
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Journal Article (2)
- Vasileios Lampos, Nello Cristianini (2011) Nowcasting Events from the Social Web with Statistical Learning. In ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology.
  https://patterns.enm.bris.ac.uk/files...
  
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- Vasileios Lampos, Thomas Lansdall-Welfare, Elena Hensinger et al. Detecting Temporal Mood Patterns in the UK by Analysis of Twitter Content. In The British Journal of Psychiatry.
Magazine Article (1)
- Vasileios Lampos, Nello Cristianini (2011) Monitoring Social Media to Detect Possible Hazards. In TBA.
  http://www.see-a-pattern.org/?q=conte...
Report (1)
- Vasileios Lampos (2011) When do you tweet the most? A statistical analysis on UK's Twitter posting time trends.
  http://www.lampos.net/twitter-posting...
Web Page (2)
- Vasileios Lampos (2011) Detecting Mood and Affect in the UK by exploiting Twitter content (Demonstration Website - BETA).
  http://geopatterns.enm.bris.ac.uk/mood/
- Vasileios Lampos (2010) Flu Detector - Tracking Epidemics on Twitter (Demonstration Website).
  http://geopatterns.enm.bris.ac.uk/epi...

Awards and Grants

Jun 2010

Paper award in IAPR CIP 2010 - Paper: Tracking the flu pandemic by monitoring the Social Web
Oct 2008

EPSRC DTA Scholarship for Ph.D. studies
Oct 2008

MSc degree with Distinction

Biographical Information

After graduating from Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras (Greece), I joined the Computer Science Department, University of Bristol (UK) for the MSc in Advanced Computing - Internet Technologies with Security. Now, I am a PhD student there under the supervision of Prof. Nello Cristianini. The main focus of my work is to infer Web trends by applying Machine Learning techniques. I am a member of Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Pattern Analysis and Intelligent Systems Group and PASCAL 2 Network.

CV

Professional Experience

2008 - Present

Ph.D. Student (Artificial Intelligence) at Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol
Bristol, United Kingdom

2008 - Present

Teaching Assistant at Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol
Bristol, United Kingdom
Classes taught:
Advanced Topics on Machine Learning and Data Mining
Artificial Intelligence
Data Analysis
Pattern Analysis and Statistical Learning

Education

Oct 2007 - Oct 2008

Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol in Bristol, United Kingdom
MSc in Advanced Computing - Internet Technologies with Security

Sep 2001 - Jun 2007

University of Patras in Patras, Greece
Computer Engineering and Informatics