Dimitrios Karapiperis is an Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Science and Technology, International Hellenic University (IHU). Before joining IHU, he was a Post-Doctoral Associate at the Hellenic Open University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Hellenic Open University and his M.Sc. in Software Engineering at the University of York. His research interests lie in the fields of entity resolution and privacy-preserving record linkage, where he focuses on developing similarity algorithms, data structures, approximation schemes, and scalable solutions that rely on randomization schemes.