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AIT Community / Faculty / Research Scientists / 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 holds a Diploma degree in Electronic Computing Systems from the Higher Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus and an M.Sc 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), RFID-ROI-SME and MEDUSA projects. Specifically in the context of ASPIRE project he is the co-founder, co-manager, system architect, developer lead and main contributor of the AspireRFID Open Source project (http://wiki.aspire.objectweb.org/). Mr. Kefalakis main area of technical expertise is Auto-ID Technologies (RFID, Barcodes…), Multitier architecture systems, Sensor Networks, Rich Client Platform applications, Business Process Modeling and Enterprise Systems. Furthermore 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. Finally Mr. Kefalakis, since September of 2009, is a Ph.D candidate at the Aalborg University of Denmark.


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

Journals

  1. N. Kefalakis, J. Soldatos, N. Konstantinou, N. Prasad: APDL: A Reference XML Schema for Process-centered Definition of RFID Solutions, In The Int Journal of Systems & Software(JSS), Elsevier, 84 (2011) pp. 1244-1259 (doi:10.1016/j.jss.2011.02.036).
  2. Nektarios Leontiadis, Nikos Kefalakis, John Soldatos, “Bridging RFID Systems and Enterprise Applications through Virtualized Connectors", International Journal of Automated Identification Technology (IJAIT), Vol. 1, No.2, 2010.(pdf)

Conferences

  1. Nikos Kefalakis, John Soldatos, Efstathios Mertikas, Neeli R. Prasad, "Generating Business Events in an RFID Network", IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA) , Barcelona, Spain, September 2011.
  2. Nikos Kefalakis,Nektarios Leontiadis, John Soldatos, and Didier Donsez, "Middleware Building Blocks for Architecting RFID Systems", 1st Mobilight Conference, May 2009.
  3. 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

  1. Nikos Kefalakis, John Soldatos, et. al., “ASPIRE Programmable Engine (APE)”, ASPIRE Project Public Deliverable D4.2a, December 2009, publicly available at: http://wiki.aspire.ow2.org/
  2. Nikos Kefalakis, John Soldatos, et. al., “ASPIRE Programmable Engine (APE)”, ASPIRE Project Public Deliverable D4.2b, March 2011, publicly available at: http://wiki.aspire.ow2.org/
  3. Nikos Kefalakis, John Soldatos, et. al., “Programmable RFID Solutions Specification”, ASPIRE Project Public Deliverable D4.4a, Semptember 2009, publicly available at: http://wiki.aspire.ow2.org/
  4. Nikos Kefalakis, John Soldatos, et. al., “Programmable RFID Solutions Specification”, ASPIRE Project Public Deliverable D4.4b, June 2010, publicly available at: http://wiki.aspire.ow2.org/
  5. John Soldatos, Nikos Kefalakis, Nektarios Leontiadis, et. al., “ End-to-End Infrastructure Management”, ASPIRE Project Public Deliverable D3.5, February 2011, publicly available at: http://wiki.aspire.ow2.org/
  6. 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/
  7. John Soldatos, Nikos Kefalakis, Nektarios Leontiadis, et. al., “Core ASPIRE Middleware Infrastructure”, ASPIRE Project Public Deliverable D3.4b, June 2010, publicly available at: http://wiki.aspire.ow2.org/
  8. 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/
  9. John Soldatos, Nikos Kefalakis, Nektarios Leontiadis, et. al., “Programmable Filters – FML Specification”, ASPIRE Project Public Deliverable D4.3b, December 2009, publicly available at: http://wiki.aspire.ow2.org/
  10. 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/
  11. 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/
  12. 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/
  13. Nikolaos Konstantinou, John Soldatos, Nikos Kefalakis, et. al., “ASPIRE Middleware Pilot Applications (Liaison Projects & New Pilots)”, ASPIRE Project Public Deliverable D6.2, June 2010, publicly available at: http://wiki.aspire.ow2.org/
  14. Nikos Kefalakis, John Soldatos, et. al., “Integration, Application Development and Technical Support of the ASPIRE Middleware”, ASPIRE Project Public Deliverable D6.4, March 2010, publicly available at: http://wiki.aspire.ow2.org/


SUPERVISWD GRADUATE THESIS AND INDEPENDENT STUDIES

  1. “Interfacing RFID Systems to ERPs”, Panorea Papathanasopoulou, MSc Thesis (MSITT Program), Athens Information Technology (AIT), 2007-2010 (co-supervised with Prof. J. Soldatos).
  2. “Interfacing RFID Systems to Enterprise Applications”, Panorea Papathanasopoulou, Independent Study (MSITT Program), Athens Information Technology (AIT), 2007-2010 (co-supervised with Prof. J. Soldatos).
  3. “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).
  4. “Integrating RFID Applications and Middleware with Corporate ICT Systems”, Stathis Mertikas, MSc Thesis (MSIN Program), Athens Information Technology (AIT) /Carnegie Melon University (CMU), 2007-2008 (co-supervised with Prof. J. Soldatos).
  5. “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).
  6. “RFID-enabled conference support system”, Dimitris Vardakas, Independent Study (MSITT Program), Athens Information Technology (AIT), 2007-2008 (co-supervised with Prof. J. Soldatos).
  7. “Managing readers and collisions in heterogeneous RFID networks” Araz Ghazaryan, MSc Thesis (MSIN Program), Athens Information Technology (AIT)/Carnegie Melon University (CMU), 2008-2010 (co-supervised with Prof. J. Soldatos).
  8. “AspireBI: Business Intelligence for RFID Applications”, Vangelis Kouravelos, MSc Thesis (MSITT Program), Athens Information Technology (AIT), 2007-2010 (co-supervised with Prof. J. Soldatos).
  9. “Automatic RFID Reader Configuration & Management”, Georgios Katsis, Independent Study (MSIN Program), Athens Information Technology (AIT)/Carnegie Melon University (CMU), 2008-2009 (co-supervised with Prof. J. Soldatos).
  10. “Rich Client Application for RFID EPCIS Repository”, Karageorgiou Eleftherios, Independent Study (MSITT Program), Athens Information Technology (AIT), 2009-2010 (co-supervised with Prof. J. Soldatos).
  11. “Visual Tools for RFID Application Development”, Yongming Luo, Independent Study (MSIN Program), Athens Information Technology (AIT)/Carnegie Melon University (CMU), 2009-2010 (co-supervised with Prof. J. Soldatos).
  12. “Implementation of warehouse management system”,Anwar Al Bayali, MSc Thesis (MSITT Program), Athens Information Technology (AIT), 2009-2010 (co-supervised with Prof. J. Soldatos).
  13. “ONS implementation for ‘Internet of things’ and RFID applications” Kostas Mourtzoukos, MSc Thesis (MSIN Program), Athens Information Technology (AIT) /Carnegie Melon University (CMU), 2008-2010 (co-supervised with Prof. J. Soldatos).
  14. “Visual Rich Client Tools for RFID Application Development”, Karageorgiou Eleftherios, MSc Thesis (MSITT Program), Athens Information Technology (AIT), 2009-2010 (co-supervised with Prof. J. Soldatos).
     

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