Yannis Ioannidis

Yannis Ioannidis is the President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In the past, he has also served as the ACM Secretary / Treasurer, a member of the ACM Europe Council, ACM SIGMOD Chair and Vice-Chair, and a member of several other boards and committees of the organization. He is an ACM and IEEE Fellow, a member of Academia Europaea, and a recipient of the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award and several other research and teaching awards. He is a Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian 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, Scalable Data Processing, Data Infrastructures and Digital Repositories, Recommender Systems and Personalization, and Digital Storytelling, topics on which he has published over 170 articles in leading journals and conferences and also holds three patents. His work is often inspired by and applied to problems that arise in industrial environments or in the context of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities, and the Arts. He has been the coordinator and legal entity head of OpenAIRE, the chief technology officer of EBRAINS AISBL following his role as software director of the European Human Brain Project flagship initiative, the coordinator of the EOSC Future strategic project, and a coordinator or partner in tens of other European and national research and innovation projects. He is also a co-chair of the Global Climate Hub of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.