Nikolaos Kefalakis

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CONTACT INFORMATION
Athens Information Technology
19.5 Km Markopoulo Avenue,
19002 Peania, Attiki, Greece
P.O. Box 68
Phone: +30 210 6682755
Fax: +30 210 6682703
E-mail: X@ait.edu.gr (where X=nkef)

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Mr. Nikolaos Kefalakis was born in Athens, Greece, in 1980. He received his Diploma in Electronic Computing Systems from the Higher Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus in 2005. In 2007 he obtained his Master of Science degree in Information Technology and Telecommunications from the AIT (Athens Information Technology). Since February 2008, he has been working as a researcher in the Autonomic and Grid Computing Group of AIT in the area of RFID Systems where he is involved in the FP7 ASPIRE project (Advanced Sensors and lightweight Programmable middleware for Innovative Rfid Enterprise applications). Mr. Kefalakis has knowledge of C, Embedded C, Assembly, Java programming languages as well as Enterprise and Database (MySQL) Systems. Moreover Mr. Kefalakis is experienced with several tools including Eclipse, Lab View, VPI Transmission-Maker and Eagle. Finally he has specialization in the planning of microcomputers, at the designing and growth of embedded systems and good knowledge in the electronics and digital systems.

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS

Auto-ID Technologies (RFID, Barcodes…)

Multitier architecture

Sensor Networks

Rich Client Platform applications

Business Process Modeling

Enterprise Systems

Embedded Systems

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

RFID Research Scientist at Athens Information Technology
February 2008 – Present
Member of the Autonomic And Grid Computing Group where I am developer, solution architect and lead developer of the AspireRFID middleware which is subsumed at the European project FP7-ASPIRE
Technical Administrator at TEI of Piraeus
September 2003 – July 2005 (1 year 11 months)
Technical Administrator (installation, maintenance, administration of the network) at the Centre of Certification for teachers of the Technological Institute of Piraeus of department of Electronic Computer Systems at the laboratory of operating systems
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry
September 2004 – January 2005 (5 months)
Designing/Installation of high-speed structured network wiring at Eleytherios Papapetros
TEI of Piraeus
November 2003 – May 2004 (7 months)
Network Administrator/ Electronic and Digital Circuits Laboratory assistant

EDUCATION

Athens Information Technology, Msc in Information Technology and Telecommunications (2005 – 2007) Graduate project: Middleware for Emerging RFID Applications: Challenges and Prototype Implementation of MISLA (multi-tier, Multi-Interface Smart Library Application).

Higher Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus, Electronic Computing Systems (1999 – 2005) Graduate project: Building and programming of a Logic Analyzer and achieving its communication with a PC through an interface based on Lab View.

PUBLICATIONS

Nikos Kefalakis, Nektarios Leontiadis, John Soldatos, and Didier Donsez, "Middleware Building Blocks for Architecting RFID Systems", 1st Mobilight Conference, May 2009..

Nikos Kefalakis, Nektarios Leontiadis, John Soldatos Kiev Gama and Didier Donsez, “Supply Chain Management and NFC Picking Demonstrations using the AspireRfid Middleware Platform”, in the Proc. of ACM MPAC (Middleware for Pervasive and Active Computing) workshop in the scope of Middleware 2008, Leuwen, Belgium, 2008.

Research Projects Public Deliverables Author

Nikos Kefalakis, John Soldatos, et. al., “ASPIRE Programmable Engine (APE)”, ASPIRE Project Public Deliverable D3.2a, December 2009, publicly available at: http://wiki.aspire.ow2.org/

John Soldatos, Nikos Kefalakis, Nektarios Leontiadis, et. al., “Core ASPIRE Middleware Infrastructure”, ASPIRE Project Public Deliverable D3.4a, June 2009, publicly available at: http://wiki.aspire.ow2.org/

John Soldatos, Nikos Kefalakis, Nektarios Leontiadis, et. al., “Programmable Filters – FML Specification”, ASPIRE Project Public Deliverable D4.3a, April 2009, publicly available at: http://wiki.aspire.ow2.org/

Nikos Kefalakis, Nektarios Leontiadis, John Soldatos, et. al., “Data Collection, Filtering and Application Level Events”, ASPIRE Project Public Deliverable D3.3, April 2009, publicly available at: http://wiki.aspire.ow2.org/

John Soldatos, Nektarios Leontiadis, Nikos Kefalakis, et. al., “ASPIRE Middleware and Programmability Specifications”, ASPIRE Project Public Deliverable D2.4, September 2008, publicly available at: http://wiki.aspire.ow2.org/

John Soldatos, Nikos Kefalakis, Nektarios Leontiadis, et. al., “Readers and Tags Virtualization”, ASPIRE Project Public Deliverable D3.2, September 2008, publicly available at: http://wiki.aspire.ow2.org/

Supervised Graduate Theses and Independent Studies

“Interfacing RFID Systems to Enterprise Applications”, Panorea Papathanasopoulou, Independent Study (MSITT Program), Athens Information Technology (AIT), 2007-2008 (co-supervised with Prof. J. Soldatos).

“Overview of RFID Systems and Creation of RFID Training Courses”, Manolis Drakakis, MSc Thesis (MSITT Program), Athens Information Technology (AIT), 2007-2008 (co-supervised with Prof. J. Soldatos).

“Integrating RFID Applications and Middleware with Corporate ICT Systems”, Stathis Mertikas, MSc Thesis (MSIN Program), Athens Information Technology (AIT), 2007-2008 (co-supervised with Prof. J. Soldatos).

“SmartSOFT: Smart Set Of Flexible Tools for visual RFIID deployment”, Vasso Koleti, MSc Thesis (MSITT Program), Athens Information Technology (AIT), 2007-2008 (co-supervised with Prof. J. Soldatos).

“RFID-enabled conference support system”, Dimitris Vardakas, Independent Study (MSITT Program), Athens Information Technology (AIT), 2007-2008 (co-supervised with Prof. J. Soldatos).

RESEARCH PROJECTS

“ASPIRE" (Advanced Sensors and lightweight Programmable middleware for Innovative Rfid Enterprise applications), FP7 Contract: ICT-215417-CP, Website: http://www.fp7-aspire.eu/, http://wiki.aspire.ow2.org/