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Nikolaos Frangiadakis (nfrangiadakis@agtinternational.
com) received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of
Maryland, College Park. Since 2011, he has been working as a
senior researcher at AGT International, Darmstadt, Germany. He
is recipient of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
2013 Data Fusion Best Classification Award, and his research
interests include data analysis, mobility modeling, simulation,
and prediction. He is a Member of the IEEE.
Alexander Bauer (abauer@agtinternational.com) received the
Dipl.-Ing. degree from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,
Germany. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, for his work on recommendation algorithms for satellite image interpretation systems of the German Strategic Intelligence Command. He is a lead
data scientist at AGT International, Darmstadt, Germany, with ten
years of experience in pattern recognition and machine learning.
Since joining AGT in 2011, he designs data analytics components
for anomaly detection, behavior analytics, and pattern learning.

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