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Integration techniques for modern bioinformatics workflows
Kanterakis, Alexandros
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Curriculum vitae
Alexandros Kanterakis was born on 30thJuly 1978 in Athens, Greece. In 1997 he enrolled to study Computer Science at the University of Crete (UoC), Greece. During his studies he showed interest in Machine Learning, Data Mining and Pattern Recognition. His BSc thesis was on the development of an algorithm for extracting knowl-edge from the large documents that are typically returned from Electronic Health Record Databases. After graduating in 2002, he was accepted as a Master’s student on the bioinformatics postgrad-uate program, run by the Computer Science Department (CSD) in collaboration with the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas, Greece (FORTH). His supervisors were Professor Stelios Orfanoudakis and Dr. George Potamias. During his Master’s studies he developed algorithms for the classifica-tion and clustering of gene expression microarray data. He also participated in studies involving text mining of biomedical corpora and semantic annotation of biomedical information. After gaining his MSc degree in 2005, he worked as a software engineer in the BioMedical Informatics (BMI) laboratory of ICS/FORTH. He was involved in several European Community projects ACGT, INFOBIOMED and GEN2PHEN, focusing on methods to merge genetic and clinical information for diagnostic purposes. In 2010 he started his PhD research in the Department of Genetics at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) in the Netherlands. His supervisors were Professor Cisca Wijmenga and Professor Morris A Swertz. During his PhD he worked mainly on the imputation part of the analysis of the Genome of the Netherlands project. He also conceived the idea of developing a crowdsourcing environment for programming, which was later developed under the name PyPedia. PyPedia won the Student Travel Award in the 13th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) in Long Beach, CA, USA. Since 2014 he has been working as a Collaborating Researcher in the Computational BioMedicine Laboratory (CBML) of ICS/FORTH. He is now mainly involved in pharmacogenomics studies for which he is developing workflow management systems for open and reproducible science. He also participates in the European Community’s RD-Connect project. Alexandros currently lives in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, with his wife Despoina and his two daughters Eleni and Demetra.
