George Drosatos
Researcher at ATHENA RC

Research Interests

  • Privacy
  • Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PET)
  • Personal Data Management
  • Distributed Computations
  • Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs)
  • Blockchain
  • Cryptographic Protocols
  • Health Informatics
  • Participatory Sensing
  • Information Retrieval (IR)
  • Machine Learning
  • Bioinformatics
  • Ubiquitous Computing
  • Cloud Computing

Funded Research Projects

  • Agro4+. Holistic Approach to Agriculture 4.0 for New Farmers, Operational Programme "Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation 2014-2020", Action "Reinforcement of the Research and Innovation Infrastructure", co-financed by Greece (NSRF) and the European Union (ERDF), grant no. MIS 5046239. Hosted by ATHENA RC, Xanthi, Greece. Role: Assistant Researcher specializing in Blockchain Technology.
  • Oncorecords. An Oncology-Oriented Medical Records Management System, Greek Operational Program "Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation 2014-2020", Single Action "RESEARCH-CREATE-INNOVATE", grant no. MIS 5030205. Hosted by "Dataverse Ltd" Information Systems and Applications, Thessaloniki, Greece. Role: Research Associate.
  • PROMOTE (in Greek 'ΑΝΑΔΕΙΞΤΟ'). Tools for Promoting Tourism Experience, Greek Operational Program "Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation 2014-2020", Single Action "RESEARCH-CREATE-INNOVATE", grant no. MIS 5030446. Hosted by "Athena" Research and Innovation Center, Xanthi, Greece. Role: Postdoctoral Researcher.
  • AKSEID (in Greek 'ΑΞΕΙΔ'). Assessment of News Reliability in Social Networks of Influence, Greek Operational Program "Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning 2014-2020", grant no. MIS 5006337. Hosted by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece. Role: Postdoctoral Fellow.
  • EROGamb. Empowering Responsible Online Gambling with Predictive, Real-time, Persuasive and Interactive Intervention. It is hosted by ESOTICS group in the Department of Computing and Informatics and funded jointly by GambleAware and Bournemouth University. Role: Research Software Engineer.
  • CARRE. Personalized patient empowerment and shared decision support for cardiorenal disease and comorbidities, European Union 7th Framework Programme, grant agreement no. 611140. Hosted by the School of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupoli, Greece. Role: Postdoctoral Researcher & Project Manager. Final Assessment: Excellent progress with encouragement to continue our research.
  • ATLAS. Advanced Tourism PLanning System, GSRT/CO-OPERATION/11SYN-10-1730. Hosted by "Athena" Research and Innovation Center, Xanthi, Greece. Role: Postdoctoral Researcher.
  • SPICE. Space Internetworking Center – SPICE, European Union 7th Framework Programme, grant agreement no. 264226. Hosted by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece. Role: Postgraduate Researcher.

Internal Research Projects

  • Privacy-preserving Television Audience Measurement
  • Privacy-enhanced NoiseTube
  • Statistical Analysis on Ubiquitous Health Data
  • Query Scrambler for Search Privacy
  • Nearest Doctor Problem (NDP)
  • Polis Project