KARALI Isambo
Address:



Department of Informatics and
Telecommunications
University of Athens
Panepistimiopolis, 157 84 Athens, Greece
E-mail address: izambodi.uoa.gr
Phone: +(30) 210 727 5232
Fax: +(30) 210 727 5191

Education

1995 PhD in Informatics (Department of Informatics, University of Athens)

1988 Msc in Computer Science (University College, University of London)

1986 Diploma in Mathematics (Department of Mathematics, University of Athens)

Professional Appointments

Nov. 2007 - today: Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Athens

Sept. 1999 - Nov. 2007: Lecturer at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Athens

Jan. 1989 - Sept. 1999: Research associate at the Department of Informatics of the University of Athens in the context of European Union research projects

May 1996 - June 1998: Postdoctoral researcher collaborating with the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of NCSR"Democritos" In the context of a GSRT PENED project



Research Interests


Teaching Activities

Current:
Past:

In addition, she has given course lectures in other departments and institutions such as


Diploma/Postgraduate Theses Supervision

Area of interest: the use of logic programming and/or artificial intelligence techniques to locate, represent and extract information and knowledge from the Web as well as reasoning under uncertainty.

Topics of theses in this area:

PhD Supervision : Loukia Karanikola, "Rules and reasoning under uncertainty and/or vagueness on the Semantic Web" (November 2009 -)

Completed Theses (after 2003)

In addition, she supervised (or took part in the supervision of) various undergraduate diploma theses, postgraduate master's theses and PhD theses. The areas of these theses are: logic programming, knowledge bases, databases, expert systems, Web information extraction and representation, computer games.


Research Projects - International Agreements


Other Professional Activities

Member of the Greek Computer Society, the Greek Mathematical Society, the Greek Statistical Institute, the London Mathematical Society (LMS), the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE-CS.

Reviewer in the Operational Research: An International Journal (ORIJ) (Springer), DKE Journal, Computer Languages, Systems and Structures Journal, ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS) (2001, 2004), ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003), 6th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT'97), 11th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2000), the 1997 ACM SIGGROUP Conference, the 4th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN '06) and the PCI'2001 (Greek Conference), 3rd East European Workshop on Rule-Based Applications (RuleApps' 2009).

Program Committee member of the 3rd East European Workshop on Rule-Based Applications (RuleApps' 2009), Cottbus, Germany, 21-22 September 2009.

Organizing committee member of the 6th International Conference on Database Theory and the 2nd Workshop on Constraint Databases (CDB'97).

Past Activities

2000 - 2012: Responsible for the Web Site of the Department, participating in the:

PhD Thesis:

I. Karali: "Semantics and Support of Modular Logic Programming and its Application to Abstract Data Types" (in Greek)

MSc Dissertation:

I. Karali. "Functional Language Implementation of Quadtrees: An Application of Functional Programming on Graphics"

Publications

Other Publications