Yannis Ioannidis#
| Membership Number: | 3129 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GREECE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.madgik.di.uoa.gr/people/yannis |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001-present: Professor, Department of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece
- 2011-present: President and General Director, “Athena” Research & Innovation Center, Greece
- 2009-present: Adjunct Researcher, Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMIS) of “Athena” RIC, Greece
- 1997–2001: Associate Professor, Department of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece
- 1998–1999: Professor (on leave), Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA
- 1993–1998: Associate Professor (last year on leave), Computer Sciences Dept, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA
- 1986–8/1993: Assistant Professor, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Database query optimization
- Distributed query and dataflow processing
- Complex information search and analysis
- User modeling, adaptation, personalization, profiling, contextualization
- Social networking and trust
- Information extraction, sentiment extraction
- Digital libraries and repositories
- Data analytics, knowledge discovery and data mining
- Scientific databases and data infrastructures, scientific experiment management
Honours and Awards
- 2010: "IEEE Fellow", Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
- 2006: "Xanthopoulos-Pneumatikos" Award for "Outstanding Academic Teaching", FORTH
- 2004: "ACM Fellow", Association of Computing Machinery
- 2003: "10-Year Best Paper Award", 29th Int'l Conf. on Very Large Databases (VLDB)
- 1997: "Continuous Uddercator of Distinction (1987-1997)" Award, CS Dept., University of Wisconsin, Madison
- 1996: "Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching" Award, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- 1991: "Presidential Young Investigator" Award (PYI), National Science Foundation
- 1987 & 1994: "Students' Choice Professor of the Year" Award, CS Dept., University of Wisconsin, Madison
- 1988: "Excellent Educator" Award, CS Dept., University of Wisconsin, Madison
