The University of Manchester | School of Computer Science

Christos is a Lecturer with tenure at the University of Manchester, School of Computer Science (Machine Learning & Optimisation Group). He is also External Moderator for the Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University. His focal research area is data mining and knowledge management, and his aim is to advance the use of data mining in domains such as programming languages and novel types of heterogeneous data. His research interests are in the areas of data, code and text mining, and software maintenance and evolution, where he has published widely.

Research

His research objectives include bridging the gap between theories and applications of data mining in critical industrial sectors such as banking, medicine and biology; accelerating and increasing the effectiveness of software maintenance and reducing its costs by improving quality, and facilitating program comprehension and evolution; establishing novel ways of retrieving information from text in order to improve classification.

His work has been published in Methods of Information in Medicine, Elsevier's Data & Knowledge Engineering, Int’l Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, Blackwell's Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, ACM SIGKDD Explorations, LNCS, IEEE IWPC, IEEE CSMR, IEEE COMPSAC, IEEE ISSRE, and IEEE APSEC. A list of recent publications and citations can be found here.

Christos is principal investigator or co-investigator in a number of research and development projects. A list of research projects he has been involved with can be found here.

He is a member of the Pennine Group, which advocates the "Software as a Service" (SaaS) strategic research initiative, aiming at developing technologies and methods for the rapid production and evolution of software systems and investigating the role of interdisciplinarity in software engineering. Currently, he is leading the University of Manchester's involvement with the EPSRC funded Service-Oriented Software Research Network (SOSoRNet). He was also a collaborator with the National Centre of Text Mining (NaCTeM). He organized the 1st SOSoRNet workshop, co-organized the Service-enabled Collaborative Enterprises- Joint event and also organized a special session at IEEE CSMR 07. He is Program co-Chair for IEEE CSMR 08.

Research Supervision

Christos has been supervising a number of final year, MSc, MPhil and PhD students over the years. He is currently looking for enthusiastic individuals who wish to undertake research in the following areas.

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