Presenter

Yannis Ioannidis is the President of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). He is a Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Athens as well as an Associated Faculty at the “Athena” Research and Innovation Center, where he also served as the President and General Director for 10 years. His research interests include Database and Information Systems, Data Science, Data and Text Analytics, Data Infrastructures and Digital Repositories, Recommender Systems and Personalization, and Interactive Digital Storytelling. His work is often inspired by and applied to data management and analysis problems that arise in industrial environments or in the context of other scientific fields (Social Sciences and Humanities, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences) and the Arts. He is an ACM and IEEE Fellow, a member of Academia Europaea, and a recipient of several research, teaching, and service awards, including the Presidential Young Investigator Award in the US, the VLDB 10-Year Best Paper Award, and the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award. He has served various roles in the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) and is currently a co-chair of the Global Climate Hub of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.