Konstantinos Vantas

Consultant Engineer

Biography

I am a consultant engineer in Hydraulic Engineering and Geoinformatics and have 14+ years of experience on independent expertise in engineering to the Greek government, developers and construction firms as sole practitioner.

My research interests include Hydrology, Water Resources Management and Machine Learning. I am a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece and the Hellenic Association of Rural and Surveying Engineers.

Interests

Hydrology
Water Recources Management
Geoinformatics
Machine Learning
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Education

PhD in Hydrology, 2017

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
MSc in Geoinformatics, 2005

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
MEng in Rural and Surveying Engineering, 2004

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Recent Publications

K Vantas, E Sidiropoulos, M Vafeiadis. Optimal temporal distribution curves for the classification of heavy precipitation using hierarchical clustering on principal components. In Global NEST, 2019.

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K Vantas, E Sidiropoulos, C Evangelides. Rainfall Erosivity and Its Estimation: Conventional and Machine Learning Methods. In Soil Erosion, 2019.

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K Vantas, E Sidiropoulos, A Loukas. Robustness Spatiotemporal Clustering and Trend Detection of Rainfall Erosivity Density in Greece . In Water, 2019.

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K Vantas, E Sidiropoulos, C Evangelides. A data driven approach for the temporal classification of heavy rainfall using Self-Organizing Maps. EGU2019, 2019.

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E Sidiropoulos, K Vantas, C Evangelides. Spatial groundwater resource allocation by means of extremal optimization, combined with a cellular automata component. EGU2019, 2019.

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K Vantas, E Sidiropoulos, A Loukas. Temporal and elevation trend detection of rainfall erosivity density in Greece. 3rd International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences, 2018.

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K Vantas. hydroscoper: R interface to the Greek National Data Bank for Hydrological and Meteorological Information. In Journal of Open Source Software, 2018.

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K Vantas, E Sidiropoulos, M Vafeiadis. Rainfall temporal distribution in Thrace by means of an unsupervised machine learning method. preXIV, 2018.

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K Vantas, E Sidiropoulos. Imputation of erosivity values under incomplete rainfall data by machine learning methods. In European Water, 2017.

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