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Dr. Nikolaos Sarris

Postdoctoral Research Associate

  • MEng. Computer Systems Engineering

Nikos Sarris received his PhD from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2003 and his Master of Engineering (Meng) degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), in 1995. After receiving his PhD Nikos worked at ATC for 15 years, where he headed the Innovation lab for 7 years and is now an Advisor on media technologies. For the last 20 years he has been working in R&D projects as a researcher, project manager and coordinator of large multinational consortia. He has been involved in many projects focusing on the semantic ‘understanding’ of news content and the assessment of its trustworthiness, coordinating the development of two related products: TruthNest and Truly Media, the latter in cooperation with Deutsche Welle. Nikos has been the coordinator of the EC-funded SOMA project tasked to empower the European Observatory against Disinformation and is a member in the Executive Board of the EDMO project (European Digital Media Observatory).

Recent Publications

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  • I. Sarridis, V. Gkatziaki, E. Krasanakis, N. Giatsoglou, N. Sarris, S. Papadopoulos, I. Kompatsiaris, "TALK: A decentralised messaging framework that preserves the privacy of users.", Open Research Europe, 2, 29. Helios 2022.
  • Z. Marinova, J. Spangenberg, D. Teyssou, S. Papadopoulos, N. Sarris, A. Alaphilippe, K. Bontcheva, "Weverify: Wider and Enhanced Verification for You Project Overview and Tools", In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo Workshops (ICMEW) (pp. 1-4). IEEE, July 2020
  • A. Drosou, N. Dimitriou, N. Sarris, A. Konstantinidis, D. Tzovaras, "Research directions for harvesting cross-sectorial correlations towards improved policy making", Data for Policy 2016, Cambridge, UK, 15-16 Sep. 2016.
  • I. Kompatsiaris, S. Diplaris, D. Corney, N. Heise, M. Klusch, E. Jaho, J. Geurts, I. Liu, G. Petkos, S. Papadopoulos, N. Sarris, A. Goker, J. Spangenberg, "Real-time social media indexing and search", In: IET Conference Proceedings, International Broadcasting Community Conference 2014 (IBC 2014), Amsterdam, Netherlands, p. 5.3-5.3.
  • S. Diplaris, G. Petkos, S. Papadopoulos, I. Kompatsiaris, N. Sarris, C. Martin, A. Goker, D. Corney, J. Geurts, Y. Liu, J.-C. Point, "SocialSensor: Surfacing Real-Time Trends and Insights from Multiple Social Networks", In Proceedings of the 2012 NEM Summit. Istanbul, Turkey, 47-52.
Contact
Dr. Nikolaos Sarris
Offices ITI Athens, Marousi

Information Technologies Institute
Centre of Research & Technology - Hellas
Egialias 52, 15125, Marousi
Tel.: +30 2111069520
Email: nsarris@iti.gr

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