ILIAS SAVVAS


Position	Professor Dean, School of Technology
Bachelor	1982, BSc in Mathematics, Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Master’s degree	1988, MSc in Computer Science, University of Dundee, U.K.
PhD degree	2004, Scheduling and Assignment of CPU-Intensive Tasks on Large Heterogeneous Distributed Systems, School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland
Professional and teaching experience	2019, Professor, University of Thessaly, 2017-2019: Professor, Dept. of Computer Engineering, T.E.I. of Thessaly, 2013-2017: Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Engineering, T.E.I. of Thessaly, 2006-2013: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Telecommunications, T.E.I. of Larissa, 2002-2006: Lecturer, Dept. of Computer Science and Telecommunications, T.E.I. of Larissa, 1988-2002: Instructor, T.E.I. of Larissa, 1997-2002: I.T. Manager, Central Library, T.E.I. of Larissa, 1996-1997: I.T. Manager, Papayiannis Bros. Industry
Scientific / research interests	High performance computing, Distributed, parallel, and multi-core programming, Cloud Computing, Increasing the performance of clustering techniques, Point anomalies detection
Selected publications	Ilias K. Savvas, Dimitrios Tselios, and Georgia Garani, “Distributed and Multi-Core Version of k-means Algorithm”, Int. J. of Grid and Utility Computing, Vol.10. No. 3, pages: 283-291, 2019 Ilias K. Savvas, A. V. Chernov, M. A. Butakova, and C. Chaikalis, “Increasing the Quality and Performance of N-Dimensional Point Anomaly Detection in Traffic Using PCA and DBSCAN”, 26th Telecommunications forum TELFOR 2018, Serbia, Belgrade, November 20-21, 2018, (financially supported from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research) Ilias K. Savvas, A. V. Chernov, M. A. Butakova, and C. Chaikalis, “Increasing the Quality and Performance of N-Dimensional Point Anomaly Detection in Traffic Using PCA and DBSCAN”, 26th Telecommunications forum TELFOR 2018, Serbia, Belgrade, November 20-21, 2018, (financially supported from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research) Ilias K. Savvas, and Georgia N. Sofianidou, “A novel near-parallel version of k-means algorithm for n-dimensional data objects using MPI”, Int. J. of Grid and Utility Computing, Volume 7 (2), pages: 80-91, 2016 Ilias K. Savvas, Georgia N. Sofianidou, and M-Tahar Kechadi, Book Chapter: “Applying the K-Means Algorithm in Big Raw Data Sets with Hadoop and MapReduce”, Book Title: Big Data Management, Technologies, and Applications, Publisher: IGI Global, 2014, pages: 23-46.
Courses taught during 2019-20	Introduction to Programming
Additional information	Best Paper Awards: George Kakarontzas and Ilias K. Savvas, “Agent-Based Resource Discovery and Selection for Dynamic Grids”, IEEE Computer Society Press, WETICE 2006/Emerging Technologies for Next-generation GRID, ETNGRID 2006, pages 195-200, Manchester, U.K., June 2006 Ilias K Savvas and Tahar Kechadi, “Task Scheduling Using the Tabu Search Heuristic Technique”, 16ο All Greek Conference of Project Management, Larissa, Sept. 2003