Toumanidis Lazaros

Education:

B.Sc Degree in Electronics Engineering, Technological Education Institute of Piraeus, School of Applied Technology, 2014
MSc By Research in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of West Attica, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2020

Professional experience:

• 02/2016 - now: Associate researcher at the CoNSeRT research laboratory of the University of West Attica
• 12/2014 - 03/2016: Software Developer on Internet Business Hellas
• 11/2014 - 09/2015: Research associate on National Technical University of Athens, Intelligent Communications and Broadband Networks Laboratory
• 10/2013 - 04/2014: Internship at Technological Education Institute of Piraeus, department of Electronics Engineering

Awards:

• 2015: Highest grade among 2014 graduates of the Department of Electronics, T.E.I of Piraeus. (Anastasiadis’ Highest GPA Award)
  
• 2013: Distinction (average grade greater than 8.5 / 10) from the State Scholarships Foundation (I.K.Y.) for my performance during the year 2007 - 2008
  

• J. Choi, L. Toumanidis, C. M. Yeum, et al., “Automated graffiti detection: A novel approach to maintaining historical architecture in communities,” Applied Sciences, vol. 12, no. 6, 2022, issn: 2076-3417. doi: 10.3390/app12062983.
• Kasnesis, Panagiotis and Lazaros Toumanidis and Charalampos Z. Patrikakis, “Combating fake news with transformers: A comparative analysis of stance detection and subjectivity analysis”, Information, vol. 12, no. 10, 2021, issn: 2078-2489. doi: 10.3390/info12100409.
• L. Toumanidis, P. Kasnesis, C. Chatzigeorgiou, M. Feidakis, and C. Patrikakis, “ActiveCrowds: A human-in-the-loop machine learning framework”, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications Novelties in Intelligent Digital Systems, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 338, pp. 176–184, 2021. doi: 10.3233/faia210090.
• Panagiotis Kasnesis and Ryan Heartfield and Xing Liang and Lazaros Toumanidis and Georgia Sakellari and Charalampos Patrikakis and George Loukas, “Transformer-based identification of stochastic information cascades in social networks using text and image similarity”, Applied Soft Computing, vol. 108, p. 107 413, 2021, issn: 1568-4946. doi: 10.1016/j.asoc.2021.107413.
• P. Kasnesis and R. Heartfield and L. Toumanidis and X. Liang and G. Loukas and C. Patrikakis, “A Prototype Deep Learning Paraphrase Identification Service for Discovering Information Cascades in Social Networks,” in 2020 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo Workshops (ICMEW), 2020, 1–4. doi: 10.1109/ICMEW46912.2020.9106044.
• L. Toumanidis, R. Heartfield, P. Kasnesis, G. Loukas, and C. Patrikakis, “A Prototype Framework for Assessing Information Provenance in Decentralised Social Media: The EUNOMIA Concept,” in E-Democracy – Safeguarding Democracy and Human Rights in the Digital Age, Katsikas, Sokratis and Zorkadis, Vasilios, Ed., Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020, 196–208, isbn: 978-3-030-37545-4. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-37545-4_13.
• C. Chatzigeorgiou, P. Kasnesis, and L. G. Toumanidis, “Exploiting Edge Computing for Privacy Aware Tourism Demand Forecasting,” IT Professional, vol. 21, no. 3, 19–25, 2019. doi: 10.1109/MITP.2019.2901876.
• P. Kasnesis, C. Chatzigeorgiou, L. Toumanidis, and C. Z. Patrikakis, “Gesture-based incident reporting through smart watches,” in 2019 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops), 2019, 249–254. doi: 10.1109/PERCOMW.2019.8730586.
• P. Kasnesis, D. G. Kogias, L. Toumanidis, M. G. Xevgenis, C. Z. Patrikakis, G. Giunta, and G. L. Calsi, “An IoE Architecture for the Preservation of the Cultural Heritage: The STORM Use Case,” in Harnessing the Internet of Everything (IoE) for Accelerated Innovation Opportunities, IGI Global, 2019, 193–214. doi: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7332-6.ch009.
• L. Toumanidis, E. Bocaj, P. Kasnesis, and C. Z. Patrikakis, “Supporting Cultural Heritage Preservation Through Game-Based Crowdsourcing,” in Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism, Springer, 2019, 989–997. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-12453-3_114.
• L. Toumanidis, P. Karapetros, C. Giannousis, D. G. Kogias, M. Feidakis, and C. Z. Patrikakis, “Developing the Museum-Monumental Experience from Linear to Interactive Using Chatbots,” in Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism, Springer, 2019, 1159–1167. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-12453-3_133.
• C. Chatzigeorgiou, L. Toumanidis, D. Kogias, C. Patrikakis, and E. Jacksch, “A communication gateway architecture for ensuring privacy and confidentiality in incident reporting,” in 2017 IEEE 15th International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA), IEEE, 2017, 407–411. doi: 10.1109/SERA.2017.7965759.
• P. Kasnesis, C. Z. Patrikakis, D. Kogias, L. Toumanidis, and I. S. Venieris, “Cognitive friendship and goal management for the social IoT,” Computers & Electrical Engineering, vol. 58, 412–428, 2017. doi: 10.1016/j.compeleceng.2016.09.024.
• E. Katsadouros, D. Kogias, L. Toumanidis, C. Chatzigeorgiou, and C. Z. Patrikakis, “Teaching network security through a scavenger hunt game,” in 2017 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), IEEE, 2017, 1802–1805. doi: 10.1109/EDUCON.2017.7943094.
• P. Kasnesis, L. Toumanidis, D. Kogias, C. Z. Patrikakis, and I. S. Venieris, “ASSIST: An agent-based SIoT simulator,” in 2016 IEEE 3rd World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), IEEE, vol., 2016, 353–358. doi: 10.1109/wf-iot.2016.7845409.
• M. G. Xevgenis, L. Toumanidis, D. G. Kogias, and C. Z. Patrikakis, “The Virtual Lab (VLAB) Cloud Solution,” in 2016 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), IEEE, 2016, 1–5. doi: 10.1109/GLOCOMW.2016.7849065.
• Patrikakis, Charalampos Z and Kalantzis, Stefanos A and Toumanidis, Lazaros and Zisimos, Fotis, “Supporting Lab Courses Using OpenStack,” in International Conference on e-Democracy, Springer, 2013, 93–102. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-11710-2_9.

Email: laztoum@protonmail.com