Dr Konstantinos Perakis was born in Athens, Greece in 1979. He received his diploma in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in October 2003. He received his M.Sc. in Techno-Economical Systems in 2005 and his Ph.D degree in Medical Informatics in 2009. Currently, Dr Perakis is the Head of the Data Science Research Group at UBITECH. Since 2004, he has been active in a number of European and National R&D programs, through which he has gained considerable experience in the field of e-Health and m-Health (indicative projects include Linked2Safety ICT and MARK1 respectively), Cloud Computing & Cloud interoperability (indicative projects include PaaSword H2020-ICT), Big Data Analytics (indicative projects include OPTIMUM, AEGIS, BigDataOcean and ICARUS H2020), Data Analytics and Mining (indicative projects include LinDA ICT) and Security (indicative projects include Linked2Safety ICT, SHIELD FI-STAR and PaaSword H2020-ICT). Dr Perakis has excellent communication and mediation skills, and the ability to deal well with people in many different contexts, which he has gained through his participation in multi-national consortia within the context of European projects.
He has published more than 20 scientific papers in international journals and conferences as well as two book chapters, all in the field of Information and Telecommunications Technologies, and has served as reviewer and chairman in international journals and conferences. Dr Perakis has also served as a reviewer for R&D projects for the European Commission and is a Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) – EMBS Society and Computer Society, and a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece and the Greek Society of Biomedical Technology.