Biography

Highly motivated and enthusiastic, with expert knowledge of the fields of Computing, Information Sciences, IT Ethics.

Currently completing research (PhD ABD) in the field of Company Profiling through Web Harvesting simulating and supporting human processes for decision making. Other current titles include MBCS, AHEA, MSc and BSc (Hons).

Consults on (as well as maintains and develops extraction techniques for) one of the largest patient record databases in the UK (over 90mil data items) for Quality Improvement in CKD.

Joined the Department of Computing in 2008 originally, and completed my studies on a MSc in Internet Computing. Since October 2009, I am a Postgraduate Researcher, supervised by Dr Bogdan Vrusias and co-supervised by Prof Paul Krause and internally funded by the Department.

I am a member of IEEE and a Professional member of BCS.

Research Interests

Web Harvesting, Company Profiling, IT Ethics, Bioinformatics in Quality Improvement Research, Data Extraction, Software engineering methodologies

Research Collaborations

Clinical Informatics Research Group - University of Surrey

Biomedical Informatics Department - St. George's University of London, 

UK Trading & Investment (UKTI), KTA

Publications

A system for solution-orientated reporting of errors associated with the extraction of routinely collected clinical data for research and quality improvement
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2010;160(Pt 1):724-8.October 1, 2010
Authors: Georgios Michalakidis, Kumarapeli P, Ring A, van Vlymen J, Krause P, de Lusignan S

Intelligent Information Retrieval in the Deep Web: an adaptable semantic model for retrieving, indexing and visualising Web Knowledge
University of SurreyDecember 9, 2010
Authors: Georgios Michalakidis

Machine-generated company profiles - harvesting the Web intelligently
Technology World, UKTIDecember 7, 2010
Authors: Georgios Michalakidis, Vrusias B

Semantically Annotating Unstructured Data: Less-is-More Company Profiling
University of SurreyMarch 23, 2010
Authors: Georgios Michalakidis, Vrusias B

Teaching

For the 2011-2012 Academic Year:

* Agile Web Development

* Web Application Development