Ioannis Stavrakantonakis

Hello! I am an Electronic and Computer Engineer specializing in software development and web development. An alumni member of the Lab. of Distributed Multimedia Information Systems And Applications (MUSIC) of Technical University of Crete. Read more about my diploma thesis in the field of Semantic Web.

I live in Athens of Greece and at this period of time I am working full time as a Software Engineer for European Dynamics S.A.

My interests include: Semantic Web, coding, web, mobile development, HCI, UI/UX, photography, tennis.

Istavrak.com will soon be transformed into an interesting (hope so) blog about all the different subjects that trigger my creativity. Stay tuned!

Blog progress

Metrics*

		European Dynamics S.A.
		Java EE, C#.NET, Java persistence-Hibernate, Struts 2, JSP, MVC, XML, OpenText eDOCS, VB6, DLL programming, COM programming, Java in Oracle DB, Oracle 9i/10g/11g DBs, Oracle Text, SQL Tuning
		Semantic Web Researching
		Bridging the gap between OWL, OWL2, RDF/S, SPARQL and XML, XQuery, XPath, XML Schema 1.0/1.1, XSLT
		Machine Learning course
		Stanford University online class
		German course
		Leisure time
		Tennis, Running, Cycling, Bowling, Wii
		Planning
		Agile roadmap: Clear goals but flexible, adjustable process

*Based on weekly statistics of Q4 2011

Research & Development

My diploma thesis deals with Semantic Web technologies including RDF, OWL, SPARQL and XML technologies like XPath, XSLT, XQuery etc. Semantic web adds a layer with semantics (meanings) above data, information and services in order to help the web to understand how these are connected to each other.

Researching about interoperability is a field of interest both for software industry and for academia. My thesis "Interoperability support between OWL 2.0 and XML environments" [PDF][PPT], under the supervision of Prof. Stavros Christodoulakis, aims to bridge the gap between latter and former technologies by supporting the expression of semantic queries on top of XML data through the translation of SPARQL queries in XQuery syntax (SPARQL2XQuery) and the transformation of XML Schema 1.1 into OWL 2.0 syntax (XS2OWL).

Publications
My publications are available at the MUSIC laboratory's web site.

Connect

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Whatever you would like to share with me, do not hesitate to drop me a line. Do you feel that we can cooperate in some way? Please contact me to discuss further your idea. If you are part of softare industry and looking for new passionate developers, it would be my pleasure to reply to your message with a full cv. Also, I am available to write articles for blogs in the fields of web development, web interfaces and user experience.

I always look forward meeting people with innovative ideas, bloggers, professionals, experts of software engineering and everyone who has something interesting to say. Also we can get connected through my social profiles on Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin.

Send your emails to
gstavrak[at]gmail[dot]com