Dr. Grigorios Loukides School of Computer Science & Informatics Cardiff University  N2.06, North Building, 5 The Parade,  Roath, Cardiff, CF24 3AA, UK tel: +44 (0) 29 20879109
Dr. Loukides is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University, and a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow. Before joining Cardiff University, he was a Postdoctoral  Research Fellow at  the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University.  He holds a  PhD in Computer Science from Cardiff University and a Diploma  in Computer Science from University of Crete, Greece.  His research  interests lie broadly in the field  of  data  management with a focus on privacy.  His recent research investigates  theoretical and practical aspects of data privacy,  including algorithmic design, optimization, and formal modeling, and explores applications in healthcare and   business. He serves in the Editorial Board  of Journal of Health Informatics and the program  committees of conferences  and workshops, including ICDM 2011 and PADM  2011.
Selected Publications (full list)
1. A. Gkoulalas-Divanis and G. Loukides. Revisiting Sequential  Pattern Hiding to Enhance Utility.      ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2011.
2. G. Loukides, A. Gkoulalas-Divanis and B. Malin. COAT:  Constraint-based Anonymization of Transactions.      Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal (KAIS). (Special issue on Context-Aware Data Mining). (Impact Factor 2.21)
3. G. Loukides and J. Shao. Preventing Range Disclosure in k-Anonymised Data.      Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal  (ESWA), vol 38 (4), 2011. (Impact Factor 2.91)
4. G. Loukides, A. Gkoulalas-Divanis and B. Malin. Anonymization of Electronic Medical Records for Validating Genome-Wide Association Studies.      Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the  United States of America, vol. 107 (17), 2010. (Impact Factor 9.83)      Acknowledged as one of the most  important technologies to improve the effectiveness of healthcare by a National Human Genome Research      Institute Nature publication.      Media Coverage: Technology Review , KDNuggets , Science News , Nature News , Scientific American , ComputerWeekly.co,                                  The Register

Selected Tutorials/Invited Talks (full list)

Privacy challenges and solutions for medical Data Sharing, ECML/PKDD 2011, Athens, 2011. Privacy-preserving Data Publishing: Threats, Context-Aware Solutions, and Future Trends, IBM Research - Zurich, 2011. Electronic Medical Records Anonymization: Challenges and Solutions. New York University, 2010.

Selected Professional Service (full list)      Editorial Board Member:                  Journal of Health & Medical Informatics             Program Committee Member:                  IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2011.                   International Workshop on Privacy Aspects of Data Mining, 2009, 2010, 2011.              Reviewer:

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)                  Information Sciences                  Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE)                  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association                  Computational Intelligence                  Methods of Information in Medicine