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10645
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Athena Vakali is affiliated with Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. Their research broadly spans the field of Computer Science, with notable contributions in several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Computer Networks and Communications.

The scientist's work covers a variety of main topics, prominently featuring Complex Network Analysis Techniques, Spam and Phishing Detection, Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems, Network Security and Intrusion Detection, Advanced Malware Detection Techniques, Mobile Health and mHealth Applications, and Innovative Human-Technology Interaction.

Their publication record shows frequent appearances in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Studies in health technology and informatics, Personality and Individual Differences, and ACM Transactions on the Web.

Selected recent papers by Athena Vakali include:

  • "I'm simply the best, better than all the rest: Narcissistic leaders and corporate fundraising success," 2020, Personality and Individual Differences
  • "LifeSnaps, a 4-month multi-modal dataset capturing unobtrusive snapshots of our lives in the wild," 2022, Scientific Data
  • "My Tweets Bring All the Traits to the Yard: Predicting Personality and Relational Traits in Online Social Networks," 2022, ACM Transactions on the Web
  • "CityDNA Dynamics: A Model for Smart City Maturity and Performance Benchmarking," 2020, Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2020
  • "Social Botomics: A Systematic Ensemble ML Approach for Explainable and Multi-Class Bot Detection," 2021, Applied Sciences

They have collaborated frequently with colleagues such as Sofia Yfantidou, Ilias Dimitriadis, Pavlos Sermpezis, Dimitrios Panteleimon Giakatos, and Stefanos Efstathiou.

Athena Vakali's involvement in Computer Science research includes a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches, integrating insights from social and technological domains. Their expertise extends to contexts involving social media analytics, smart city modeling, and security applications.

They have been recognized within the academic community, notably as an ACM Senior Member since 2020.

Best Publications

  • Cloud Computing: Distributed Internet Computing for IT and Scientific Research

    M.D. Dikaiakos;D. Katsaros;P. Mehra;G. Pallis

  • Community detection in Social Media

    Symeon Papadopoulos;Yiannis Kompatsiaris;Athena Vakali;Ploutarchos Spyridonos

  • Insight and perspectives for content delivery networks

    George Pallis;Athena Vakali

  • Content delivery networks: status and trends

    A. Vakali;G. Pallis

  • Large scale crowdsourcing and characterization of twitter abusive behavior

    Antigoni Maria Founta;Constantinos Djouvas;Despoina Chatzakou;Ilias Leontiadis

  • Sentiment analysis leveraging emotions and word embeddings

    Maria Giatsoglou;Manolis G. Vozalis;Konstantinos I. Diamantaras;Athena Vakali

  • Mean Birds: Detecting Aggression and Bullying on Twitter

    Despoina Chatzakou;Nicolas Kourtellis;Jeremy Blackburn;Emiliano De Cristofaro

  • Content Delivery Networks

    Rajkumar Buyya;Mukaddim Pathan;Athena Vakali

  • Urban planning and smart cities: interrelations and reciprocities

    Leonidas G. Anthopoulos;Athena Vakali

  • A Unified Deep Learning Architecture for Abuse Detection

    Antigoni Maria Founta;Despoina Chatzakou;Nicolas Kourtellis;Jeremy Blackburn

  • Behind the cues: A benchmarking study for fake news detection

    Georgios Gravanis;Athena Vakali;Konstantinos I. Diamantaras;Panagiotis Karadais

  • Intrusion detection in RBAC-administered databases

    E. Bertino;E. Terzi;A. Kamra;A. Vakali

  • Cluster-Based Landmark and Event Detection for Tagged Photo Collections

    S Papadopoulos;C Zigkolis;Y Kompatsiaris;A Vakali

  • Current Trends in Database Technology - Edbt 2004 Workshops

    Wolfgang Lindner;Marco Mesiti;Can Türker;Yannis Tzitzikas

  • A clustering-based prefetching scheme on a Web cache environment

    George Pallis;Athena Vakali;Jaroslav Pokorny

  • A Systematic Review for Smart City Data Analytics

    Vaia Moustaka;Athena Vakali;Leonidas G. Anthopoulos

  • LDAP: framework, practices, and trends

    V. Koutsonikola;A. Vakali

  • Detecting Cyberbullying and Cyberaggression in Social Media

    Despoina Chatzakou;Ilias Leontiadis;Jeremy Blackburn;Emiliano De Cristofaro

  • Content Delivery Networks: State of the Art, Insights, and Imperatives

    Mukaddim Pathan;Rajkumar Buyya;Athena Vakali

  • XML data stores: emerging practices

    A. Vakali;B. Catania;A. Maddalena

  • An overview of web data clustering practices

    Athena Vakali;Jaroslav Pokorný;Theodore Dalamagas

Frequent Co-Authors

Yannis Manolopoulos
Yannis Manolopoulos University of York Europe Campus
Symeon Papadopoulos
Symeon Papadopoulos Information Technologies Institute, Greece
Nicolas Kourtellis
Nicolas Kourtellis Telefónica (Spain)
Lefteris Angelis
Lefteris Angelis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Jeremy Blackburn
Jeremy Blackburn Binghamton University
Gianluca Stringhini
Gianluca Stringhini Boston University
Ioannis Kompatsiaris
Ioannis Kompatsiaris Information Technologies Institute, Greece
Evimaria Terzi
Evimaria Terzi Boston University
Emiliano De Cristofaro
Emiliano De Cristofaro University of California, Riverside
Ilias Leontiadis
Ilias Leontiadis Facebook (United States)

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