Stefanos Ougiaroglou was born in Aridea, Greece in 1981. He received a B.Sc. in Computer Science (2004) from the department of Informatics of Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece, a M.Sc. in Computer Science (2006) from the department of Computer Science of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and a PhD in Computer Science (2014) from the department of Applied Informatics of University of Macedonia, Greece. The title of his PhD thesis is "Algorithms and Techniques for Efficient and Effective Nearest Neighbours Classification". His PhD studies were supported by a Scholarship from State Scholarships Foundation (I.K.Y) of Greece. From 2016 to 2019, he was conducting postdoctoral research on "prototype generation algorithms for data streams and large training datasets" at the department of Applied Informatics of University of Macedonia, Greece. Therefore, he holds a Post Doctoral Certificate from this department. Moreover, S. Ougiaroglou holds a Certificate of Pedagogical and Teaching Competence (2010), ASPAITE, Greece.
Currently, S. Ougiaroglou is an Assistant Professor in the field of Data Mining at the department of Information and Electronic Engineering of the International Hellenic University in Thessaloniki where he teaches Programming, Databased, Web Applications Development and Data Mining. In the past, he served as an Assistant Professor in the field of Intelligent Systems at the department of Digital Systems of the University of the Peloponnese, Greece. Also, he has epmployed as a Laboratory Lecturer (EDIP) at the department of Information and Electronic Engineering of the International Hellenic University (IHU), as an adjunct part-time lecturer/instructor at Dept. Of Telecommunication Systems and Networking of TEI of Messolonghi, Greece and as a computer science teacher in public primary, secondary and post-secondary education. His research interests include Data Mining alogirthms, Knowledge Discovery, Machine learning, Data Reduction, Data streams, Data management for Mobile Computing, Databases, Algorithms and Data Structures, Educational Technology and Web application development. He has co-authored several journal and conference papers in these fields as well as he has acted as a reviewer in many well-known sientific journals and conferences.