Group Leader
Kostas Stefanidis, Professor, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University (Hervanta Campus)
Kostas has more than 10 years of experience in different roles at ICS-FORTH in Greece, NTNU in Norway and CUHK in Hong Kong. He got his PhD in personalised data management from the Univ. of Ioannina in Greece. His research interests are in the broader area of big data. His work focuses on personalisation and recommender systems, entity resolution, data exploration and data analytics, with a special focus recently on socio-technical aspects in data management like fairness and transparency, and published in more than 100 papers in top-tier conferences and journals. He has been involved in several international and national research projects and he is also actively serving the scientific community. Currently, he is the General co-Chair of EDBT/ICDT 2026, ADBIS 2025, TPDL 2025 and ICWE 2024.
konstantinos.stefanidis@tuni.fi
+358 50 4174121
Members
Jyrki Nummenmaa, Professor @ Tampere University
Zheying Zhang, University Lecturer @ Tampere University
Juho Kanniainen, Professor @ Tampere University
Maria Stratigi, Postdoctoral Researcher @ Tampere University
Tiago Brasileiro, Doctoral Researcher @ Tampere University
Petri Puustinen, Doctoral Researcher @ Tampere University
Reza Shafiloo, Doctoral Researcher @ Tampere University
Yingqi Zhao, Doctoral Researcher @ Tampere University
Wenji Bai, Doctoral Researcher @ Tampere University
Emilia Lenzi, Doctoral Researcher @ Politecnico di Milano
Rodrigo Borges, Doctoral Researcher @ Tampere University
Collaborators
Evaggelia Pitoura, Professor @ University of Ioannina, Greece
Vassilis Christophides, Professor @ ETIS, ENSEA, France
Georgia Koutrika, Research Director @ Athena Research Center, Greece
Thomas Olsson, Professor @ Tampere University
Eirini Ntoutsi, Professor @ Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
Haridimos Kondylakis, Associate Professor @ University of Crete, Greece
Aikaterini Tzompanaki, Associate Professor @ University of Cergy-Pontoise, France
Vasilis Efthymiou, Assistant Professor @ Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Alumni
Erjon Skenderi, Doctoral Researcher @ Tampere University
Xiazhou Li, Doctoral Researcher @ Tampere University
Elizaveta Zimina, Doctoral Researcher @ Tampere University
Toufique Hasan, MSc Student @ Tampere University
Nastaran Ebrahimi, MSc Student @ Tampere University
Ainaz Ebrahimi, MSc Student @ Tampere University
Farhan Mubasher, MSc Student @ Tampere University
Atishay Jain, MSc Student @ Tampere University
Lucas Machado, MSc Student @ Tampere University
Waleed Imtiaz, MSc Student @ Tampere University
Md Mahade Hasan, MSc Student @ Tampere University
Soha Pervez, MSc Student @ Tampere University
Muhammad Shahzaib Ali, MSc Student @ Tampere University
Haider Zulfiqar, MSc Student @ Tampere University
Uzair Ahmed, MSc Student @ Tampere University
Wajhee Ullah, MSc Student @ Tampere University
Ilmo Heiska, MSc Student @ Tampere University
Qaiser Abbas, MSc Student @ Tampere University
Zhihao Tan, MSc Student @ Tampere University
Yi Zhou, MSc Student @ Tampere University
Shehani Athalage, MSc Student @ Tampere University
Rafael Gonzalez, MSc Student @ Tampere University
Muhammad Zunair, MSc Student @ Tampere University
Mohhamad Tavasoli, MSc Student @ Tampere University
Manojprabhakar Parthasarathy, MSc Student @ Tampere University