Vassilis Kostakos

Vassilis Kostakos () is a computer scientist who is Professor of Computer Engineering in Ubiquitous Computing at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Oulu, Finland. His research interests are in Ubiquitous Computing, Human-Computer Interaction, and Social and Dynamic Networks. He is Associate Director of the MediaTeam Oulu research group.
Biography
Vassilis Kostakos was born in Greece, but works in Oulu, Finland. He received both his Bachelor and PhD degrees in computer science from University of Bath, UK in 2001 and 2005. Prior to settling in Oulu, Kostakos held positions at the University of Madeira (where he co-founded the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute), Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Bath.
He is an author in the fields of human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing. His research involves the use of open ubiquitous infrastructure and mobile devices, focusing on novel applications and social network analysis. He has received a Marie Curie Career Integration Grant for 2012-2016, and was a Fellow of the Finland Distinguished Professor Programme.
Selected publications
* Kostakos, V., Venkatanathan, et al. (2011). Who's your best friend? Targeted privacy attacks in location-sharing social networks. In proceedings of Ubicomp 2011, p. 177-186.
* Kostakos, V., O'Neill, E., Penn, A., Roussos, G., Papadongonas, D. (2010). Brief encounters: sensing, modelling and visualizing urban mobility and copresence networks. ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction, 17(1):1-38.
* Kostakos, V., Nicolai, T., Yoneki, E., O’Neill, E., Kenn, H. and Crowcroft, J. (2009). Understanding and measuring the urban pervasive infrastructure. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 13(5):355-364.
* Kostakos, V. (2009). Temporal graphs. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 388(6):1007-1023.
* O’Neill, E., Kostakos, V. et al. (2006). Instrumenting the city: Developing methods for observing and understanding the digital cityscape. In proceedings of Ubicomp 2006, p. 315-332.
* Kostakos, V., O'Neill, E., Penn, A. (2006). Designing urban pervasive systems. IEEE Computer Journal, Vol. 39 (9), pp. 52-59.

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