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Athens University of Economics and Business
Distributed and Real-Time Systems Lab
Patission 76, Antoniadou Building, 4th floor
Post Code: 10434
Phone: 210-8203154
Email: litou@aueb.gr

Litou Iouliana

I am currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at Athens University of Economics and Business under the supervision of the Professor Vana Kalogeraki. I hold a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science and a B.Sc. degree in Informatics from the same department. Current research is focused on development of Participatory Sensing Systems and I am a member of the Real Time Distributed Systems Group. Since 2011, I work as a Research Assistant and Software Engineer in various research projects.

Full CV here

Awards

Research Interests

  • Social Networks
  • Influence Maximization
  • Misinformation identification
  • Misinformation limitation
  • Participatory Sensing Systems
  • Crowdsourcing
  • Location-based Systems
  • Stream Processing Systems

Publications

Efficient and timely misinformation blocking under varying cost constraints
Iouliana Litou, Vana Kalogeraki, Ioannis Katakis, Dimitrios Gunopulos, In Online Social Networks and Media, Volume 2, August 2017, Pages 19-31, ISSN 2468-6964 [Online Available]

Influence Maximization in a Many Cascades World
Iouliana Litou, Vana Kalogeraki and Dimitrios Gunopulos, 2017 IEEE 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Atlanta, USA, 2017 [Dowload PDF]

Pythia: A System for Online Topic Discovery of Social Media Posts (Demo)
Iouliana Litou and Vana Kalogeraki, 2017 IEEE 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Atlanta, USA, 2017 [Dowload PDF]

On Topic Aware Recommendation to Increase Popularity in Microblogging Services
Iouliana Litou, Vana Kalogeraki, Dimitrios Gunopulos, In On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2016 Conferences, Rhodes, Greece, October 2016 [Dowload PDF]

Real-Time and Cost-Effective Limitation of Misinformation Propagation
Iouliana Litou, Vana Kalogeraki, Ioannis Katakis, Dimitrios Gunopulos, In Proceedings of 17th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), Porto, Portugal, June 2016 [Dowload PDF]

Efficient Techniques for Time-Constrained Information Dissemination using Location-based Social Networks
Iouliana Litou, Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki, Information Systems, Available online 22 December 2015, ISSN 0306-4379 [Online Available]

A Model for Identifying Misinformation in Online Social Networks
Sotirios Antoniadis, Iouliana Litou, Vana Kalogeraki, In On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2015 Conferences, Rhodes, Greece, October 2015 [Online Available]

Using location-based social networks for time-constrained information dissemination
Iouliana Litou, Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki, In Proceedings of 15th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), Brisbane, Australia, July 2014 [Download PDF]
IBM Best Student Paper Award (Runner Up)

Efficient Dissemination of Emergency Information using a Social Network
Iouliana Litou, Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki, Mining Urban Data (MUD) - EDBT/ICDT 2014 Workshop, Athens, Greece, 2014 [Download PDF]

Exploiting social networks for healthcare
I. Litou, V. Kalogeraki, PSENSE Workshop at PETRA 2013, Rhodes, Greece, May 2013.

Education

Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece

  • PhD Computer Science, Department of Informatics September 2013 - present
  • Title: Participatory Sensing Systems
  • Advisor: Prof. Vana Kalogeraki, Distributed and Real-Time Systems Group Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece

Athens University of Economics and Business,Athens, Greece

  • M.Sc. Computer Science, Department of Informatics, Sep.2011 - June 2013
  • Thesis Advisor: Prof. Vana Kalogeraki, Distributed and Real-Time Systems Group, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece
  • Major Subjects: Social Networks, Real-Time information distribution, Emergency Response

Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece

  • Bachelor's Degree in Informatics [Overall grade: 7.69/10]
  • Major Subjects: Databases and Knowledge Management, Information Systems and Security

Teaching Assistant

Undergraduate Courses:

  • Compilers, Prof. V. Kalogeraki, Winter 2016
  • Compilers, Prof., A. Charalambidis, Spring 2015
  • Compilers, Prof. V. Kalogeraki, Spring 2014

Professional Experience

Distributed and Real-Time System Group, September 2012 - present

Hellas, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens

  • Information Propagation and Influence Maximization in Social Networks
  • Efficient Dissemination of Emergency Information in Social Networks
    Research and development of: (a) Social Networks information gain on emergency related events, and (b)Real-Time emergency notification and dissemination in Social Networks
  • Exploiting Social Networks for Healthcare
    Exploitation of capabilities of Social Networks for healthcare in Assistive Enviroments

Freelancer Developer, September 2012 - June 2015

Hellas, Athens

  • Website Development
  • Application Development

Software Development and Network Development, February 2011-June 2011

Hellas, SiEBEN IT Company, Athens

  • Website Development
  • Facebook Application Development
  • WPF Desktop Application