Eleftherios Tiakas received a B.Sc. in Mathematics (1994), a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Informatics (2006), and a Ph.D. in Informatics (2011), all the degrees from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). During the period 2004-2017, he served as Teacher of Mathematics in Secondary Education. From 2011-2017, he served as Adjunct Lecturer with the School of Informatics of AUTH. Since 2017, he has been on the Laboratory Teaching Staff with the School of Informatics of AUTH. His areas of research interest include: Databases, Data Structures, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Similarity Search, Social Networks, and Bioinformatics. He is the author/co-author of 30 articles published in international journals and conference proceedings, plus 2 book chapters. His publications have received over 600 citations. He participated in 11 research projects and programs funded by the European Union and Greece. Finally, he serves as a PC member and reviewer for several international journals and conferences.
