Konstantinos Azis | Technological Networks | Research Excellence Award

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Mr. Konstantinos Azis | Technological Networks | Research Excellence Award

Democritus University of Thrace | Greece

Mr. Konstantinos Azis is an active researcher in environmental and biochemical engineering, with a strong focus on wastewater treatment processes, biological nutrient removal, membrane bioreactors, landfill leachate treatment, and advanced control strategies for energy-efficient operation of treatment systems. His research portfolio includes 14 peer-reviewed documents, which have received 119 citations across 116 citing documents, reflecting sustained scientific impact. He holds an h-index of 7, demonstrating consistent contributions to high-quality research outputs. His publications span leading international journals and conference proceedings, addressing topics such as intermittently aerated activated sludge systems, real-time control of nitrification–denitrification, simulation-based aeration strategies, fouling control in membrane systems, advanced oxidation processes, and microbial applications in environmental biotechnology. His work contributes to the development of sustainable, optimized, and data-driven solutions for water and wastewater management, supporting both environmental protection and operational efficiency.

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Educations📚📚📚

The individual completed their education journey, culminating in a Doctorate from Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa Graduate School of Education, Department of Midwifery, in 2023, following a Master’s degree in Midwifery from the same institution in 2020, and a Bachelor’s degree in Midwifery from Haliç University in 2014. Prior to their academic pursuits, they attended Bakırköy 70th Year Health Vocational High School for their secondary education, graduating in 2006. Their professional experience includes roles as a Lecturer at Haliç University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Midwifery, starting in 2020, and as a Research Assistant at Haliç University School of Health Sciences, Department of Midwifery, from 2014 to 2020. Before their academic career, they worked as a Nurse-Midwife at Haseki Training and Research Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit from 2011 to 2014, and as a Nurse at Dağkapı Children’s Diseases Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit from 2010 to 2011.

 

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Professional Profiles:

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Experience

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Academic achievements

  • Rong Yin, Yong Liu, Weiping Wang, Dan Meng. Scalable Kernel k-Means with Randomized Sketching: From Theory to Algorithm. In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2023, 35(9): 9210 – 9224. (TKDE 2023) (CCF-A, SCI-1, IF: 9.235). [PDF]
  • Rong Yin, Yong Liu, Weiping Wang, Dan Meng. Randomized Sketches for Clustering: Fast and Optimal Kernel k-Means. In Proceedings of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022, 35: 6424-6436. (NeurIPS 2022) (CCF-A). [PDF]
  • Rong Yin, Yong Liu, Weiping Wang, Dan Meng. Distributed Nystrom Kernel Learning with Communications. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR, 2021: 12019-12028. (ICML 2021) (CCF-A). [PDF]
  • Rong Yin, Yong Liu, Dan Meng. Distributed Randomized Sketching Kernel Learning. In Proceedings of the 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022, 36(8): 8883-8891. (AAAI 2022) (CCF-A). [PDF]
  • Ruyue Liu, Rong Yin*, Yong Liu, Weiping Wang. ASWT-SGNN: Adaptive Spectral Wavelet Transform-based Self-Supervised Graph Neural Network. In Proceedings of the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024. (AAAI 2024) (CCF-A, Corresponding author).
  • Rong Yin, Yong Liu, Lijing Lu, Weiping Wang, Dan Meng. Divide-and-Conquer Learning with Nyström: Optimal Rate and Algorithm. In Proceedings of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020, 34(04): 6696-6703. (AAAI 2020) (CCF-A). [PDF]
  • Xueyan Wang, Jianlei Yang, Yinglin Zhao, Xiaotao Jia, Rong Yin, Xuhang Chen, Gang Qu, Weisheng Zhao. Triangle counting accelerations: From algorithm to in-memory computing architecture. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2021, 71(10): 2462-2472. (TC 2021) (CCF-A, SCI-1, IF: 3.7). [PDF]
  • Rong Yin, Yong Liu, Weiping Wang, Dan Meng. Sketch Kernel Ridge Regression using Circulant Matrix: Algorithm and Theory. In IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2020, 31(9): 3512-3524. (TNNLS 2020) (SCI-1, IF: 11.683). [PDF]
  • Ruyue Liu, Rong Yin*, Yong Liu, Weiping Wang. Unbiased and Augmentation-Free Self-Supervised Graph Representation Learning. In Pattern Recognition, 2024. (PR 2024) (SCI-1, IF: 8, Corresponding author). [PDF]
  • Rong Yin, Yong Liu, Weiping Wang, Dan Meng. Extremely sparse Johnson-Lindenstrauss transform: From theory to algorithm. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2020: 1376-1381. (ICDM 2020) (CCF-B). [PDF]
  • Lijing Lu, Rong Yin, Yong Liu, Weiping Wang. Hashing Based Prediction for Large-Scale Kernel Machine. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science, 2020: 496-509. (ICCS 2020). [PDF]
  • Jian Li, Yong Liu, Rong Yin, Weiping Wang. Multi-Class Learning using Unlabeled Samples: Theory and Algorithm. In Proceedings of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019: 2880-2886. (IJCAI 2019) (CCF-A). [PDF]
  • Jian Li, Yong Liu, Rong Yin, Weiping Wang. Approximate Manifold Regularization: Scalable Algorithm and Generalization Analysis. In Proceedings of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019: 2887-2893. (IJCAI 2019) (CCF-A). [PDF]

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