Ioannis Karydis
Ioannis Karydis was born in Athens, Greece in 1979. He received a BEng (2000) in Engineering Science & Technology from Brunel University, UK, an MSc (2001) in Advanced Methods in Computer Science from Queen Mary University, UK and a PhD (2006) in Mining and Retrieval Methods for Acoustic and Symbolic Music Data from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He has contributed to more than 25 academic publications and currently is a contract lecturer at the Ionian University, Greece. His research interests include music databases, music information retrieval (indexing & searching), music genre classification, musical similarity using contextual information, continuous querying in musical streams, cultural information systems and privacy issues in databases. A full and up-to-date CV can be found in http://www.ionio.gr/~karydis/