Professor Pericles A. Mitkas

Programme: MSc in ICT Systems
Modules: Database Systems

Prof. Pericles A. Mitkas received his Diploma of Electrical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1985 and an MSc and PhD in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University, USA, in 1987 and 1990, respectively. Between 1990 and 2000 he was a faculty member with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University in USA.

Currently, Dr. Mitkas is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Director of the Information Processing Laboratory. He is also Faculty Affiliate of the Informatics and Telematics Institute of the Center for Research and Technology – Hellas, where he directs the Intelligent Systems and Software Engineering Laboratory.

Since April 2009, he is the Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics in the University of Central Greece and a member of the University Executive Committee.

Prof. Mitkas teaches Databases, Software Engineering, and Data Mining courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. His research interests include databases and knowledge bases, data mining, software agents, enviromatics and bioinformatics. His work has been published in over 2000 papers, book chapters, and conference publications. He is the co-author of a book on Agent Intelligence through Data Mining.

Prof. Mitkas is a senior member of the IEEE Computer Society.