Konstantinos Vogklis is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Tourism, Ionian University

Konstantinos Vogklis was born in Ioannina, Greece, in 1978. He received the diploma degree in Computer Science from the University of Ioannina, Greece, in 1999, and M.Sc. and Ph.D degrees in computer science, in 2002 and 2010 respectively, from the same department. From 2012 he is permanent resident of Corfu.

He has been employed as adjunct lecturer/ at various Universities and Technology Institutes in Greece. From 2012 he has been working remotely as lead Data Scientist in Athens based company Nodalpoint LTD. He has been involved in numerous european and national research projects. We has also co-authored highly impact, scientific open source software. His research interests include the development of high performance parallel algorithms and machine learning techniques with emphasis on big data, image and sound processing. In the last couple of years he has been involved in the design and implementation of augmented reality applications on mobile devices aiming on both entertainment and the emergence of cultural heritage. His professional qualifications include development of scientific software and design of information systems with specialization on Oracle backend and frontend products.

His published work includes 30 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and conferences. He has received more than 350 references to his scientific published work. He has been distinguished in international competition sites, Kaggle (rank: 65 / 139,5642) and Topcoder, by applying Deep Convolutional Neural Networks on GPUs.