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I am looking for Senior Applied Scientist or Research Scientist opportunities where I can combine my expertise on data with my passion for user-friendly access to data. My expertise lies in understanding and modeling data, crafting actionable metadata that facilitates data search, data mining, data exploration and integration using machine learning approaches. I’m passionate about providing effective and user-friendly access to complex data with end-to-end development of processes for data collection, curation, and enhancement. I am eager to collaborate with forward-thinking teams to produce innovative and impactful data solutions.

I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Toronto, where I was a member of the Computer Systems & Networks Research Group, advised by Professor Angela Demke Brown and Professor Moshe Gabel. My PhD focused on Facilitating Discovery in Open Data Repositories.

I completed my M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Toronto with Professor Renée J. Miller in January of 2015. My Masters focused on Recommendation Approaches and New Applications of Recommendations to Data Science.

I received my Engineering Degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Crete (Chania, Crete, Greece) under the supervision of Professor Antonios Deligiannakis, in August 2012. My Bachelor thesis was titled "A Rich Media Mobile Web Application for Visitors and the Community of the Technical University of Crete".

Publications

Metadata Unification in Open Data with Gnomon
Christina Christodoulakis, Moshe Gabel & Angela D. Brown. EDBT 2025

Leveraging Guides to Empower Open Data Research
Christina Christodoulakis, Moshe Gabel & Angela D. Brown. DAS 2022

Pytheas: Pattern-based Table Discovery in CSV Files [10 minute video] [GitHub]
Christina Christodoulakis, Eric Munson, Moshe Gabel, Angela D. Brown & Renée J. Miller. PVLDB 2020

Making Open Data Transparent: Data Discovery on Open Data
Renée J. Miller, Fatemeh Nargesian, Eric Zhu, Christina Christodoulakis, Ken Q. Pu, and Periklis Andritsos. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 2018

Barriers to Adoption of Information Technology in Healthcare
Christina Christodoulakis, Azin Asgarian, Steve Easterbrook. CASCON 2017

VIQS: Visual Interactive Exploration of Query Semantics
Christina Christodoulakis, Eser Kandogan, Ignacio Terrizzano, and Renée J. Miller. ACM ESIDA 2017.

LabBook: Metadata-driven Social Collaborative Data Analysis
Eser Kandogan, Mary Roth, Peter Schwarz, Joshua Hui, Ignacio Terrizzano, Christina Christodoulakis, and Renée J. Miller. IEEE BigData 2015

VizCurator: a Visual Tool for Curating Open Data [demo]
Bahar Ghadiri Bashardoost, Christina Christodoulakis, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Renée J. Miller and Kelly Lyons. Demo paper, 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2015

VoidWiz: Resolving Incompleteness Using Network Effects [poster]
Christina Christodoulakis, Christos Faloutsos, and Renée J. Miller. Demo paper, 30th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2014

Awards

  • Bell Graduate Scholarship, 2022-2023
  • Bell Graduate Scholarship, 2021-2022
  • Wolfond Scholarship in Wireless Information Technology, 2020-2021
  • VLDB Registration Support, 2020
  • Bell Graduate Scholarship, 2020-2021
  • General Motors Women in Science and Mathematics Award, 2020
  • General Motors Women in Science and Mathematics Award, 2019
  • Doctoral Completion Award, 2019
  • Alexander Graham Bell Canada NSERC CGS D Scholarship, 2016-2018.
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), 2014-2015.
  • Service Distinction Award. Computer Science, University of Toronto, 2016.
  • Guaranteed full Ph.D. funding from Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.
  • Guaranteed full M.Sc. funding from Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.
  • Performance Fellowship Award. Technical University of Crete, 2008-2009.

Curriculum Vitae

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Contact Me

Department of Computer Science
Bahen Center for Information Technology
University of Toronto
40 St. George Street, Room BA5214
Toronto ON M5S 2E4
 Email: christina at cs dot toronto dot edu