Contact Info

School of Computing Science
University of Glasgow
Sir Alwyn Williams Building
18 Lilybank Gardens
Glasgow, G12 8RZ, UK


Phone: (+44) (0)141-330-6994
Email: nikos.ntarmos@glasgow.ac.uk


Research Interests

  • Large-scale (big) data management infrastructures.

  • Data and resource management in Internet-scale cloud computing infrastructures.

  • Indexing and complex query processing/optimization in Internet-scale data management systems.

  • Security, anonymity, trust/reputation, monitoring/auditing/accounting, load balancing, and routing issues in Internet-scale distributed systems.

  • Internet system performance measurements.

  • Integration of peer-to-peer and embedded systems.


Education

PhD in Computer Engineering & Informatics, 2004 - 2008
University of Patras, Patras, Greece

  • Thesis: “Development and Utilization of Novel Systems for Auditing, Accounting, and Estimating of Global Parameters and Characteristics of the Entities in Peer-to-Peer Networks”.

MSc in Computer Engineering & Informatics, 2002 - 2004
University of Patras, Patras, Greece

  • Thesis: “Behavior Auditing and Accounting System for Peer-to-Peer Networks”.

Diploma in Electronic & Computer Engineering, 1996 - 2002
Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece

  • Thesis: “An Internet Content Integration System: Mediator and Wrappers”.


Research Experience

Senior Researcher/Technical Expert, 2020 - present
Huawei Technologies R&D (UK), Ltd.

  • Member of the Graph Database team within the Huawei Edinburgh Research Centre, leading a group of researchers looking into issues related to future graph database management systems, for settings ranging from embedded/low-memory devices to large-scale distributed deployments. Also, supporting the design of the business plan for Huawei database technologies strategies.

Senior Lecturer, 2019 - present
School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, UK

  • Promoted to Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. Currently conducting research focusing on Big Data themes, including data management and processing across multi-datacentre systems, distributed shared-nothing data management architectures, indexing and query processing in distributed NoSQL/graph data stores, high performance data management in the Cloud, and scalable/decentralised recommender systems.

Lecturer, 2017 - 2019
School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, UK

  • Appointed Lecturer at the School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. Conducted research focusing on Big Data themes, including consistency guarantees for NoSQL systems, multi-datacentre systems, indexing and query processing in distributed NoSQL/graph data stores, and recommender systems.

Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Fellow, 2013 - 2017
School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, UK

  • Appointed Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Fellow to the School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. Conducted research focusing on Big Data themes related to multi-datacentre systems and distributed data management/processing systems.

Postdoc Researcher, 2012 - 2013
Computer Engineering & Informatics Dept., University of Patras, Greece - Research Project “Cloud9”

Postdoc Researcher, 2012 - 2013
Computer Engineering & Informatics Dept., University of Patras, Greece - Research Project “EICOS”

Postdoc Researcher, 2010 - 2013
Computer Engineering & Informatics Dept., University of Patras, Greece - Research Project “LAWA”

  • Participation in the research project “LAWA: Longitudinal Analytics of Web Archive data” (FP7-258105/ICT-2009.1.6), on data and resource management in Internet-scale cloud computing infrastructures.
    [http://www.lawa-project.eu/]

Postdoc Researcher, 2008 - 2010
Network-Centric Information Systems Lab, Computer Engineering & Informatics Dept., University of Patras, Greece

  • Actively pursuing research themes in the general subject areas of widely distributed systems and cloud computing.

Research Engineer, 2004 - 2004
Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Patras, Greece - Research Project “DELIS”

  • Participation in the research project “DELIS: Dynamically Evolving, Large-scale
    Information Systems” (IST-2002-001907).
    [http://delis.upb.de/]

Research Engineer, 2002 - 2003
Technical University of Crete, Greece - Research Project “DBGlobe”

Research Engineer, 2002 - 2003
Technical University of Crete, Greece - Research Project “DIET”

Research Engineer, 2002 - 2002
Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Patras, Greece - Research Project “CRESCCO”

Research Engineer, 2002 - 2002
Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Patras, Greece - Research Project “FLAGS”

  • Participation in the research project “FLAGS: Foundational Aspects of Global Computing Systems” (IST-2001-33116).
    [http://ru1.cti.gr/flags/]


Teaching Experience

Lecturer, 2017 - present
School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, UK

  • Courses Taught: “Big Data (Level H)”, “IT Architectures (Level M)”, “Computer Systems (Level 2)”, “Networks and Operating System Essentials (Level 2)”.

Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Fellow, 2013 - 2017
School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, UK

  • Courses Taught: “Big Data (Level 4)”, “IT Architectures (Level 4/MSc)”, “Software Engineering for Mechanical Engineers (Level 3/Msc)”.

Adjunct Assistant Professor, 2009 - 2011
Computer Science Dept., University of Ioannina, Greece

  • Courses taught: “Network Programming”, “Algorithm Design and Analysis (Lab)”, “Computer Networks (Lab)”, “Programming in C (Lab)”.

Teaching Assistant, 2002 - 2007
Computer Engineering & Informatics Dept., University of Patras, Greece

  • Courses assisted: “Operating Systems”, “Internet Content Distribution Systems”, “Advanced Subjects in Distributed Systems”.

Teaching Assistant, 2001 - 2002
Electronic & Computer Engineering Dept., Technical University of Crete, Greece

  • Courses assisted: “Operating Systems”, “Distributed Information & Knowledge Systems & Applications”.


Technical Experience

Systems Administrator, 2013 - present
IDEAS Research Group, School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, UK

  • Design, configuration, and maintenance of the web server and computing clusters of the Information, Data, Events, Analytics at Scale (IDEAS) research group, School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, UK.
    [http://dcs.gla.ac.uk/ideas/]

Systems Administrator, 2002 - 2014
Network-Centric Information Systems Lab, Computer Engineering & Informatics Dept., University of Patras, Greece

  • Design, configuration, integration, and maintenance of the main production server and the workstations of the Network-Centric Information Systems (NetCInS) lab, Computer Engineering and Informatics Dept., University of Patras, Greece.
    [http://netcins.ceid.upatras.gr/]

Field Engineer, 2008 - 2008
Informatics Research Corps, Greek Army

  • Configuration, maintenance, and field deployment of computing and telecommunication hardware and software systems used by the Greek Army.

Systems Administrator, 2007 - 2007
V.Trip Group, Athens, Greece

  • Design, configuration, and integration of the network backbone and main production servers of the V.Trip group of companies.

Systems Administrator, 2005 - 2007
ITEI.Gr, Rethimno, Greece

  • Design, configuration, integration, and maintenance of the main production servers and site-wide network infrastructure of web hosting firm ITEI.Gr.

Software Engineer, 2006 - 2006
V.Trip Group, Athens, Greece

  • Participation in the design of the passport issuing system currently in use by the Hellenic Republic.

Software Engineer, 2005 - 2005
V.Trip Group, Athens, Greece - Research Project “Inno-Utilities”

  • Participation in the research project “Inno-Utilities: Innovation-friendly Public Procurement and Fight against Telecommunications Fraud and Security Threats” (IPS-2001-42014), in collaboration with OTE, Deutsche Telekom, Portugal Telecom, and EURESCOM.
    [http://www.inno-utilities.org/]

Systems Administrator, 2001 - 2003
InternetServices.Gr, Chania, Greece

  • Design, configuration, and integration of the main production server of the web hosting firm InternetServices.Gr.

Systems Administrator, 1999 - 2002
Software & Network Applications Lab, Technical University of Crete, Greece

  • Design, configuration, integration, and maintenance of the main production servers, network backbone, and workstations of the Software and Network Applications Lab, including the installation and configuration of the first computing cluster of the Technical University of Crete.

Software Engineer, 1999 - 2002
Software & Network Applications Lab, Technical University of Crete, Greece

  • Participation in the research, design, development, and deployment team of the internet information integration system “Coins-n-Dice”.

Web author - Web master, 1998 - 1999
Technical University of Crete, Greece

  • Design and implementation of the central web site of the Technical University of Crete, Greece.

Systems Administrator, 1996 - 1999
Information Systems Centre, Technical University of Crete, Greece

  • Design, configuration, integration, and maintenance of the main production servers, network backbone, and workstations of the Information Systems Centre.


Awards

  • CIKM’06 (best interdisciplinary paper award).

  • National Bank of Greece (award; 1996, 2002, 2004).

  • OTE (award; 1996, 2002, 2004).

  • Karyai Benevolent Foundation (award; 1997, 1998).


Grants

  • EPSRC, project “Closed Loop Data Science” (grant; 2018-present).

  • EU Commission, Erasmus+ programme, project “PRIMES” (grant; 2016-2019).

  • Greek Ministry of Education, THALES programme, project “Cloud9” (grant; 2012-2015).

  • Greek Ministry of Education, THALES programme, project “EICOS” (grant; 2012-2015).

  • Greek Ministry of Development, General Secretariat of Research and Technology, PENED’03 programme (grant; 2004-2007).

  • S. Onassis Foundation, “The 2003 Lectures in Computer Science: Internet and Web: Crawling the Algorithmic Foundations” (grant; 2003).

  • A. Matalas Foundation (grant; 1996-2003).


Professional Memberships

  • ACM
  • IEEE
  • TEE


Program Committees

  • PC Member:
    • ComP2P (‘08)
    • ACM/IFIP/USENIX MDS (‘09)
    • ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware (‘12)
    • MOSPAS (‘10,’11,’12)
    • WISE (‘10,’11)
    • IEEE CCNC (‘11,’12, ‘13)
    • TempWeb (‘12)
  • Reviewer:
    • Journals: ACM TOCS, ACM TOIT, ACM TWEB, Elsevier DKE, Elsevier JNCA, IEEE CL, IEEE TPDS, LNCS TCS, Springer P2PNA, Springer WWWJ
    • Conferences & Workshops: ATC, ACM DEBS, ACM CIKM, ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware, DBISP2P, DISC, EDBT, HDMS, ICDCS, IEEE ICDE, IEEE IPDPS, IEEE P2P, PCI, SSDBM, VLDB


Foreign Languages

  • English (Cambridge Proficiency in English)
  • French (Diplôme d’études supérieures III, DELF II, Sorbonne I)


Software Systems

  • InFeRno: A framework for recognizing illicit images on the web
  • eXO: A decentralised social networking system
  • FreeDHS: A decentralised framework for cardinality estimation
  • FreeSHADE: A decentralised framework for histogram maintenance and computation of simple aggregates
  • CoInS & DICE (now closed source): A content integration system with a smart semantic active cache engine
  • Contributor to several open source projects (e.g., FreeBSD port maintainer, awesome window manager, conky system monitor, etc.).

Please see here for a full list of software projects I have participated in.


Publications

Please see my publication list.




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