Konstantinos Vlachos
Konstantinos is currently working as Research Fellow in Open Data engineering at 探花直播. He has a Bachelor鈥檚 degree in 鈥淐omputer Science and Telecommunications Engineering鈥� from the Higher Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly in Greece and a Master鈥檚 in 鈥淎dvanced Computer Science鈥� from 探花直播. He has 12 years of working experience in the IT industry (2005-2017) where he was implementing complex IT solutions including networking, IP PBX (VoIP) and satellite internet (VSAT and one-way).
During his employment with BCU, he has worked as Research Associate for the 鈥淏ig Data Corridor鈥� - a European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) project in collaboration with 探花直播 City Council, Aston University, EnableID, Innovation 探花直播, and West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), aiming to provide data-related support and solutions for SMEs of the Greater 探花直播 and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership (GBSLEP) area. Following the completion of the 鈥淏ig Data Corridor鈥� project in 2019, he has been working as Data Scientist in the Data Science Collaboration (DSC) project - a consultancy project between 探花直播 City Council and BCU, aiming to investigate new ways of handling and analyzing data to extract Insight and allow data-driven decision making for the provisioning of council鈥檚 services to 探花直播 citizens.
Konstantinos is a software development enthusiast and has expertise in programming with several different languages including Java, Python and JavaScript. He is currently teaching and creating content for the Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) module of the BSc Computer Science course (Level 5).
His research interests include Data Science (Data integration, analysis and visualization, Machine Learning) and Data Modelling for different types of database systems such as relational (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL), NoSQL (Cassandra DB, HBase, MongoDB), and graph (Neo4j) databases. He is also interested in Smart Cities and more specifically in vehicle traffic and air-quality data, and is currently working on a project that investigates the impact of the Clean Air Zone (CAZ) enforcement in 探花直播. Finally, he has some research experience in working with IoT data collection and integration and with using Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, HBase and Hive.