Short CV
Spyros Bekiaris is a graduate of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of National Technical University of Athens. His major was in Computer Systems and Software and his diploma thesis was about the Design and Development of a Crowdsourcing Platform for metadata enrichment in Digital Cultural Heritage. The result of his thesis was the development of the platform WITHcrowd, which was the basis of the implementation of various crowdsourcing projects. Recently, he started working as a software developer and engineer for the Intelligent Systems, Content & Interaction Lab of NTUA. He participates in the European project "Crowd Heritage" which aims at improving the quality of Europeana's digital content by enriching metadata of selected cultural items. He is also involved in the laboratory's projects MINT and WITH, where he authors code and implements many of their core features. He uses a wide variety of Database and Web technologies and he is tasked with the responsibilities of a Full Stack Developer.