Dr. Constantinos Costa is a co-founder and CEO of Rinnoco Ltd, a research, innovation, and education consulting startup company founded in 2021. He was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Cyprus for the Fall 2023 term. Before founding Rinnoco, he was a visiting research assistant professor at University of Pittsburgh and a research associate in the Advanced Data Management Technologies laboratory at the School of Computing and Information of the University of Pittsburgh. He has significant experience in data management (databases, spatial big data, spatio-temporal datasets, NoSQL), distributed, cloud & high-performance computing. Over the last ten years, he has developed novel software stacks and services for industrial projects in collaboration with the various companies and organizations, namely, Appcampus (Finland), Cywee (Taiwan), MTN Telco (Cyprus), Geomatics (Cyprus), and Nicosia General Hospital (Cyprus). He has also contributed extensively to the open-source project Anyplace, for indoor navigation and localization, which led to new collaborations with the industry. His publication record includes 5 journals and 31 conference and workshop publications. He was leading the ADMT’s CAPRIO and HealthDist projects, which were recognized at IEEE MDM 2021 with the best industrial and application award, as well as the best system demonstration award. During his PhD studies he was a member of the Data Management Systems Laboratory (DMSL) of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus. Because of his academic performance, he was selected to participate to the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (2016), the Onassis Foundation (2017) and the ACM Europe Summer School on Data Science (2018).
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