PhD Student Achievements

This page contains significant achievements of PhD students I supervise.

26 February 2009: The book Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design (O'Reilly, 2008, ISBN 9780596517984) co-edited by Georgios Gousios obtained the top rank on the amazon.co.uk Software Architecture books category. The book's royalties are donated to the international humanitarian aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières.
February 2009: Vassilis Karakoidas is awarded funding for his research through AUEB's Funding Programme for Basic Research (PEVE).
January 2009: Dimitris Mitropoulos publishes a paper in a high-impact journal: SDriver: Location-specific signatures prevent SQL injection attacks. Computers and Security, 2009.
October 13th, 2008: Vasileios Vlachos is elected Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Telecommunications at the Technological Educational Institution of Larissa. The subject of his post is the Development and Security of Internet Applications.
September 2008: Vasileios Vlachos publishes a paper he co-autored during his PhD study in a top-impact journal: Power laws in software. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 18(1):1–26, September 2008. Article 2.
June 2008: The paper A PRoactive Malware Identification System based on the Computer Hygiene Principles (Information Management and Computer Security, 15(4):295-312, 2007) co-authored by Vasileios Vlachos was awarded by Emerald publishers with the "Highly Commended Paper" distinction. The award was given by the journal's editorial board to three papers as part of the "Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2008".
May 2008: Vassilis Karakoidas publishes a paper in a high-impact journal: FIRE/J — optimizing regular expression searches with generative programming. Software: Practice & Experience, 38(6):557–573, May 2008.
November 17th, 2007: Konstantinos Chorianopoulos is elected Lecturer in the Department of Informatics at the Ionian University.
July 24th, 2007: Vasileios Vlachos successfully defends his PhD thesis.
April 2006: The paper A survey of peer-to-peer content distribution technologies (ACM Computing Surveys, 36(4):335–371, December 2004) co-authored by Stephanos Androutsellis Theotokis obtained the top yearly download rank in the ACM's digital library popular magazine and computing surveys articles category.

Table from the Communications of the ACM Volume 49, Number 4 (2006), Pages 29-30.
January 2006: Stephanos Androutsellis Theotokis, Georgios Gousios, and Konstantinos Stroggylos are awarded a scholarhip through the framework of the "Reinforcement Programme of Human Research Manpower" (PENED) co-financed by National and Community Funds (25% from the Greek Ministry of Development-General Secretariat of Research and Technology and 75% from E.U.-European Social Fund).
December 2004: Stephanos Androutsellis Theotokis publishes a paper in a top-impact journal: A survey of peer-to-peer content distribution technologies. ACM Computing Surveys, 36(4):335–371, December 2004.
July 2004: Vasileios Vlachos is awarded a scholarship co-funded by the European Social Fund and National Resources - EPEAEK II - IRAKLITOS Fellowships for research of Athens University of Economics and Business.
June 2004: Vasileios Vlachos and Stefanos Androutsellis Theotokis publish a paper in a high-impact journal: Security applications of peer-to-peer networks. Computer Networks, 45(2):195–205, June 2004.
May 10th, 2004: Konstantinos Chorianopoulos successfully defends his PhD thesis.
May 2004: Konstantinos Chorianopoulos publishes a paper in a high-impact journal: User interface development for interactive television: Extending a commercial DTV platform to the virtual channel API. Computers & Graphics, 28(2):157–166, April 2004.
April 2004: Vasileios Vlachos coordinated the student team that won the third place in the national phase of the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2004 competition.
December 2004: The paper A survey of peer-to-peer content distribution technologies (ACM Computing Surveys, 36(4):335–371, December 2004) co-authored by Stephanos Androutsellis Theotokis obtained the top monthly download rank in the ACM's digital library popular magazine and computing surveys articles category.

Table from the Communications of the ACM Volume 48, Number 9 (2005), Pages 29-30.
June 16th, 2002: Konstantinos Raptis successfully defends his PhD thesis.
June 2000: Konstantinos Raptis publishes a paper in a high-impact journal: Component mining: A process and its pattern language. Information and Software Technology, 42(9):609–617, June 2000.