Paraskevi Raftopoulou is a Research and Teaching Faculty Member at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of the Peloponnese and a member of the Software and Database Systems Laboratory (SoDa.Lab) since August 2008.

She received her BSc degree in Computer Science from the University of Crete in 2000, and her MSc degree in Computer Engineering (2003) and PhD degree in Information Management (2009) from the Technical University of Crete. During 2007–2008, she was a visiting researcher at the Databases and Information Systems Department of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPII), under the supervision of Prof. Gerhard Weikum.

Her research interests focus on distributed systems and large-scale data management, with extensions to data mining, data anonymization, social networks, databases, and digital libraries. In recent years, her work has also addressed applications in smart cities, intelligent transportation systems, and smart agriculture.

Dr. Raftopoulou has (co-)authored more than 35 peer-reviewed publications in international journals and conferences and has participated in over 10 European and national research projects. She has served as a reviewer for numerous scientific journals and conferences and acts as an external evaluator of research proposals and funded projects for the European Commission.

She has extensive teaching experience and has independently taught undergraduate courses in her department, as well as courses in two postgraduate programs. She has supervised more than 20 undergraduate and postgraduate theses and has been awarded two national research scholarships.

• Kimon Deligiannis, Christos Tryfonopoulos, Paraskevi Raftopoulou, Nikos Platis, and Costas Vassilakis. “EnQuest: A Cloud Datalake Infrastructure for Heterogeneous Analytics in Maritime and Tourism Domains”. In: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications (DATA). Rome, Italy, July 2023.
• Paraskevi Raftopoulou, Spiros Skiadopoulos, Christos Tryfonopoulos, and Costas Vassilakis. “SodaSense: An Intelligence Platform for Micro-Mobility, Micro-Climate and Agriculture”. In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services (GEOProcessing). Venice, Italy, Apr. 2023.
• Fotios K. Anagnostopoulos, Spyros Rigas, Christos Tryfonopoulos, Michalis Papachristou, Ioannis Chaniotis, and Paraskevi Raftopoulou. “Towards a General Forecasting Framework for Particulate Matter within Urban Environments”. In: Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union Conference (AGU). Chicago, USA, Dec. 2022.
• Kimon Deligiannis, Paraskevi Raftopoulou, Christos Tryfonopoulos, Nikos Platis, and Costas Vassilakis. “Hydria: An Online Data Lake for Multi-Faceted Analytics in the Cultural Heritage Domain”. In: Big Data and Cognitive Computing 4.2 (2020).
• Paraskevi Raftopoulou, Euripides G.M. Petrakis, and Christos Tryfonopoulos. “Re-wiring Strategies for Semantic Overlay Networks”. In: Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD), Springer 26.2-3 (2009), pp. 181–205.
• Paraskevi Raftopoulou, Manolis Koubarakis, Kostas Stergiou, and Peter Triantafillou. “Fair Resource Allocation in a Simple Multi-Agent Setting: Search Algorithms and Experimental Evaluation”. In: International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) 6.14 (2005).
• Giannis Varelas, Epimenides Voutsakis, Paraskevi Raftopoulou, Euripides Petrakis, and Evangelos Milios. “Semantic Similarity Methods in WordNet and their Application to Information Retrieval on the Web”. In: Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM). Bremen, Germany, Nov. 2005.