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(BRIEF CURRICULLUM VITAE) Athens University of Economics & Business Department of Informatics Patission 76, Athens 10434, Greece Tel. +30.210.8214145,
+30.210.8203355, E-mail: eyan@aueb.gr
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(BRIEF CURRICULLUM VITAE) Athens University of Economics & Business Department of Informatics Patission 76, Athens 10434, Greece Tel. +30.210.8214145,
+30.210.8203355, E-mail: eyan@aueb.gr
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Professor
of Computer Science, Head of the Library of the University, Consultant of the
European Union since 1982, Editor/Referee for several international journals
including ACM, IEEE-PAMI, IEEE-ASSP, JASIS, Computer Journal, Prentice-Hall Publications, J. Wiley Publications, Butterworth Press, Pergamon Press, etc., External
examiner for several Ph.D. candidates throughout Europe. Teaches database design
& management at the Athens University of Economics & Business, and
psychometric databases at the Athens University (Postgraduate School of
Cognitive Science).
Studied
Computer Science and obtained his Ph.D.
(1979) in Computer Science from the University of Bradford England, where he
worked as Tutor of Computer Science (1975-1978), and as Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Professor
at both Undergraduate and Postgraduate Levels (1978-1989). In 1989 he was
appointed Professor of Computer Science at the Athens University of Economics
and Business. He is Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS),
Chartered Engineer (C.Eng.), Chartered Information Technology
Professional (CITP), Member of the
Greek Computer Society (MGCS).
Has
served as adviser to the Greek Minister of Research and Technology (1982-83),
adviser to the Greek Minister of Education (1988-89), adviser to the National
Library of Greece (1989-1991), Member of the Committee on Terminology of the
Greek Ministry of Development – Research & Technology (1990-1992), Member
of the Greek Parliamentarian Committees on: a) cash registers, and b)
customhouse computerization (1996-1998),
Project Leader for the establishment of a Greek National Guidance Resources
Centre within the framework of the E.U. Program PETRA (1993-1995),
Member of the Supervisory Committee of
the Integrated Information System of the Greek Ministry of Economics and Project
Leader (2002-2004). Has acted as computer consultant and adviser to the
following Presidents of the Hellenic
Republic: K. Karamanlis, C. Sartzetakis, K. Stephanopoulos.
Some
of the posts he has held are the following: Founder
member and first President of Bradford University Computer Society, U.K. (1976-1978), Warden of
Shearbridge Hall, U.K. (1979-1985), Member of the Court of the University of
Bradford, U.K. (1987-1989), Consultant and Expert adviser for the European Union
(since 1982), Consultant for the British Home Office - GMD System (1979-1982),
Consultant for the Department of Trade and Industry, U.K. (1980-1985),
Consultant for WIRA, U.K. (1979-1983), Member of the Inter University Computing
Committee, U.K. on Computer Science Curricula (1980-1982), Consultant and
Referee for the British Library (1979-1989),
Member of the British Standards Institute: Committee OIS/121 on Programming
Languages & Database Management Systems (1984-1987) - The Committee had
close links with the equivalent ISO (International Standards Organization)
Committee ISO/TC/97/SC/5, Elected Member of the Branches Board of the British
Computer Society (1983-1986), Examinations Adviser of the British Computer
Society, Part II, Method II (1985-1989), Academic Representative of the British
Computer Society at Bradford University (1985-1989), Member of the Training
Committee, Institute of Management Information Systems, U.K. (1984-1988),
President of the West Yorkshire Branch of the British Computer Society
(1986-1987), Chairman and Program Coordinator of the 6th, 7th, and 8th British
Computer Society Research Colloquium on Information Retrieval (1984-1986),
Member of the Committee of the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the
British Computer Society (1982-1987), Associate Editor of the journal
Information Technology (1983-1986), Chairman of the West Yorkshire Branch of the
Institute of Management Information Systems (1982-1987), Visiting Professor,
Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, Greece (1983), Elected
Member of the Board of Studies in Natural and Applied Sciences, University of
Bradford, U.K. (1984-1989), Elected Secretary of the British Computer Society,
West Yorkshire Branch (1984-1986), Instigator, Chairman and Program Coordinator
of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd British Computer Society Computing Challenge
(1985-1987), Member of the Liaison (Advisory) Committee of the Department of
Information Studies, University of Sheffield (1987-1989), Coordinator of the
Interdisciplinary Information Research Unit of Bradford University, U.K.
(1986-1989), Joint organizer of the 1st Interdisciplinary Information
Technology Conference of Bradford University, U.K. (1988), Member of the Greek
Chancellors' Committee on European Affairs (1992-1994), Member of several
Conference Program Committees of the ACM Special Interest Group on Information
Retrieval since 1993, Chairman of the 2nd Hellenic conference on
Computer Education of the Greek Ministry of Education (1995), Member of the
Greek Chapter of the Alexandrian Library – UNESCO (1998-), Chairman of the 23rd
International ACM Conference on Information Retrieval (2000).
At
the Athens University of Economics and Business he was the instigator for the
establishment of Postgraduate Studies (1993) and Postdoctoral Research in
Computer Science (1998), and has served as: Chairman of the Computer Centre (1990-1993),
Head of the Library (1991-), Chairman of Postgraduate Studies (1994-1996),
Chairman of the Department of Informatics and member of Senate (1997-2001), Deputy Head of the Department
of Informatics and Member of Senate (1991-1993), Member of the Research
Committee (1992-1996), Director of the Information Systems & Database
Systems Department (2004-).
Has
carried out numerous sponsored research studies and has designed major
information systems for several organizations throughout Europe, including The
European Union, Department of Education - U.K., Department of Trade and Industry
- U.K., The British Library, WIRA Research Association - U.K., The Greek
Ministry of Development, The Greek National Research Centre Democritus, The
Greek Ministry of Finance, etc. The information systems designed cover a wide
variety of industrial applications, such as information and library retrieval,
psychometric testing, job evaluation, vocational guidance, expert motion-time
study, real estate management, hospital databases, statistical analyses, info-metrics,
text analyses, etc. Has supervised hundreds of Undergraduate projects and over
30 Ph.D. and M.Sc. projects.
Has
published over 70 papers at International Journals, 40 papers at
Conference Proceedings, and 8 Books with International publishers, including The Architectural
Logic of Database Systems, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3-540-19513-0,
0-387-19513-0, 1988, Standard Relational and Network Database Languages
(with Cheng, C. P.), Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3-540-19537-8, 0-387-19537-8, 1988;
7-5062-0750-8, 1991, Speech Synthesis and Recognition Systems (with
Hutton, P. J.), Ellis Horwood - J. Wiley, ISBN 0-470- 20959, 0-7458-0314-8,
1987.
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