PERSONAL DATA
Name: Charisi Anna
Date of birth: November 21st, 1978
Home address: 2981 Elgin Dr, Apt B, Riverside, CA, 92507
Telephone: 951-902-3676
E-mail address: acharisi@cs.ucr.edu
EDUCATION
2006 – Now: Graduate student of the Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics Phd Program, University of California, Riverside (ChemGen IGERT Fellow since January 2008)
2004 – 2005: MSc student in Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (passed 11/13 of the required courses)
2001 – 2003: MSc in Signal Processing for Communications and Multimedia, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Grade “Excellent”– 9.04/10)
1996 - 2000:Degree in Computer Science, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Grade “Very Good” – 8.2/10)
THESIS
Undergraduate thesis: Development of Optical Character Recognition system for handwritten characters.
Master thesis: Processing of stereoscopic satellites images of urban areas for cartographic purposes.
HONOURS - AWARDS
Greek State Scholarships Foundation Fellowship for PhD studies abroad on Bioinformatics area
LANGUAGES
English: Excellent (Michigan Proficiency - ECPE)
GRE General Test: Verbal: 400/800, Quantitative: 800/800, Analytical Writing: 4/6 – 10 Jan 2005
TOEFL: computer based 263/300, essay rating 5/6 – 27 March 2004
German: Fluent (Grundstüfe degree)
PUBLICATIONS
For the complete list of publications, click here.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Health-e-Child (2006) [Web address: http://www.health-e-child.org/]. The Health-e-Child project aims at developing an integrated healthcare platform for European paediatrics, providing seamless integration of traditional and emerging sources of biomedical information. The long-term goal of the project is to provide uninhibited access to universal biomedical knowledge repositories for personalized and preventive healthcare, large- scale information-based biomedical research and training, and informed policy making.
Digitization and Presentation of the History Museum of the University of Athens (2004 – 2005) [Web address: http://history-museum.uoa.gr/]. Project funded by Information Society. This project aims to the digitization and web presentation of the exhibits, heirlooms and documents of the History Museum of the University of Athens.
Participation in the project of Greek – Italian collaboration between the Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing of National Observatory of Athens, the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR) and the CNR IBIMET (National Research Council - Institute of BioMeteorology in Italy) (2002 – 2004) [Web address: http://spin- pc.space.noa.gr]. In this project a web interactive application has been developed, providing the ability to the user to select a point on the map of Greece, where an oil spill accident has taken place, and to receive data about the satellites that cover the specific geographical area, as well as about the oil spill dispersion taking into consideration meteorological and oceanographically data provided by POSEIDON system of HCMR.
ROSES: (Real-Time Ocean Service for Environment and Security) (2003 – 2004) [Web address: http://roses.cls.fr]. ROSES project constitutes a part of GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security), that is a joint initiative of ESA (European Space Agency) and the European Commission. The aim of the project is to deliver an operational and autonomous European capacity and services for global monitoring for marine environment and safety. Its multiple services are related with oil spills and water quality monitoring in the short term, as well as with marine primary production assessment or sea level and climate monitoring in the long term. As part of the project, a web interactive application was designed and implemented that by receiving the recognition data of oil spills from satellite images, that are provided by the cooperator of the project Telespazio (Italy), forecasts in real time the dispersion of the oil spills, based on meteorological and oceanographically data provided by POSEIDON system of Hellenic Centre for Marine Research. The Hellenic Ministry of Mercantile Marine and the Civil Protection Authorities are automatically informed about an oil spill occurrence via e-mail, while at the same time the results are visualized and presented through a website (http://roses.ncmr.gr, username: guest, password: trial). This implementation is one of the first real time prediction systems of an oil spill dispersion and simultaneous publication of the results in the Internet for direct access by anyone interested.
SmartGov: A Governmental Knowledge-based Platform for Public Sector Online Services (2002 – 2004) [Web address: http://www.smartgov- project.org]. The project was funded by the European Commission's Information Society Technologies Programme (IST). The aim of the SmartGov project was to specify, develop, deploy and evaluate a knowledge-based platform to assist public sector employees to generate online transaction services by simplifying their development, maintenance and integration with already installed IT systems. The deployment of that platform was supported by new process models, including process improvement methodologies, targeting the public sector as well as an investigation of social aspects for public sector employees. This platform was evaluated in two European countries (in one Ministry and one Local Authority). After its completion, the project was awarded the honorary title of the “Project of the Month” (http://europa.eu.int/information_society/ programmes/egov_rd/ projects_of_moth_march04/text_en.htm).
CB-Business: Cross-Border Business intermediation through electronic seamless services (2002 – 2004) [Web address: http://www.cb- business.com]. The project was funded by the European Commission's Information Society Technologies Programme (IST). CB-Business focused on the development of an intermediation scheme that facilitates the access to services offered by national and regional government (administration agencies) and business (commercial and industrial chambers) service providers across the European Union and Enlargement Countries through a single-stop service-mediary, the CB-BUSINESS intermediation hub.
Virtual Museums (1999 – 2001) [Web address: http://museums.di.uoa.gr]. Project funded by General Secretariat for Research and Technology. The purpose of this project was to create a virtual environment and the appropriate management tools where visitors of the participating museums will be able to view their exhibits either through Internet or locally. PHP programs were developed for data insertion, selection and presentation, which connect with a multimedia database and retrieve – according to users’ preferences – and build the corresponding HTML pages. The project was successfully completed in 2001.
Participation in the project “Development of Optical Character Recognition system for handwritten characters” (PAVE 96 – partially funded by General Secretariat for Research and Technology) in the framework of the undergraduate thesis, regarding the study of inalterable descriptors of characteristics on the representation of characters, as well as the growth and evaluation of various methods of classification
WORK EXPERIENCE
November 2005 – July 2006: Exchange visitor in the Database Laboratory of Professor Gunopulos in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of California Riverside under the “Health-e-Child” project.
December 2004 – October 2005: Participation in the project of “Digitizing and Promotion of History Museum of University of Athens”
September 2004 – February 2005: Teacher of computer science in the private primary school Iordanakeio.
March 2004 – April 2004: Participation in “ROSES” project (Real-Time Ocean Service for Environment and Security) in the GMES framework of ESA.
June 2003 – September 2004: Participation in the project of Greek – Italian Collaboration between Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing of National Observatory of Athens, Hellenic Center of Marine Research and CNR-IBIMET (National Research Council - Institute of BioMeteorology in Italy).
April 2003 – present: Analysis, Design, Implementation, Maintenance and overall Μanagement of website gastronomia.gr (http://www.gastronomia.gr). Gastronomia.gr is an integrated web portal for restaurants in Athens with photos, panoramas and detailed information about each restaurant.
September 2002 – October 2002: Teacher in computer science in the project of “Educating Teachers in the Exploitation of Information and Communication Technologies in Education” of “Information Society”
April 2002 – December 2002: Participation in “CB BUSINESS” project of the IST framework.
February 2002 – January 2004: Participation in “SMARTGOV” project of the IST framework.
September 2001 – June 2003: Teacher of computer science in the private technical high school N. Augerinopoulou.
March 2001 – March 2003: Translation and review of technical informatics books for Diavlos Publishing.
November 2000 – April 2001: Participation in “Virtual Museums” project of the EPET-II framework.
WORK AT UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
February 2002 – July 2003: Teaching assistant for undergraduate course “Database Systems”.
October 2001 – February 2002: Teaching assistant for undergraduate course “Human – Computer Interaction”.
February 2001 – July 2001: Multimedia laboratory administrator with 20 PCs.
REPORTS AND PROJECTS DELIVERABLES
- "Software Manual", project SMARTGOV, IST
- "Implementation of Applications and Services of SmartGov", project SMARTGOV, IST
- "Implementation of knowledge based SmartGov platform", project SMARTGOV, IST
- "Low level specifications of SmartGov services, applications and knowledge based platform", project SMARTGOV, IST
- "User requirements, service and system specifications", project SMARTGOV, IST
- "Technical Report: Museum users requirements", project Virtual Museums, EPET-II
- "Technical Report: Design of the Virtual Museums Portal", project Virtual Museums, EPET-II
- "Technical Report: User manual – software manual", project Virtual Museums, EPET-II
SPECIAL COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE
- Programming skills in Java, C, Visual Basic, Pascal.
- Programming skills in scripting languages Perl, Php, Asp.
- Excellent knowledge of designing and implementing static web pages using HTML, Javascript and CSS.
- Excellent knowledge of designing and implementing dynamic web pages using ASP and PHP.
- Design of relational databases and knowledge of query language SQL.
- Very good knowledge of VRML language and creating virtual reality environments using the software Sense8 Word Up.
- Very good knowledge of satellite images processing using GRASS.
- Very good knowledge of GIS software such as ArcView.
- Very good knowledge of database management of ORACLE, SQL-SERVER and MySql.
- Excellent knowledge and programming experience in Matlab and R.
- Working experience on Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix environments.
REFERENCES
Available upon request.