2003 Digital Symposium Collection

Yannis Ioannidis

Yannis Ioannidis is currently a Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Athens. He received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1982, his MSc in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University, and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1986. Immediately after that he joined the faculty of the Computer Sciences Department of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he became a Professor before leaving in 1999. His research interests include database and information systems, digital libraries, scientific systems, and human-computer interaction, topics on which he has published over seventy articles in leading journals and conferences. He also holds three patents.

Dr. Ioannidis was the recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator (PYI) award in 1991, awarded by the President of the United States to the top young scientists in each field. He is also the recipient of the 2003 VLDB "10-Year Best Paper Award", awarded each year for the most influential paper published in the VLDB Conference 10 years earlier. In addition, he has received several awards for teaching excellence.

Dr. Ioannidis has been a keynote or invited speaker in several conferences (Int'l Conference on Database Theory 2003, Int'l Conference on Web Age Information Management 2001, Int'l Conference on Statistical and Scientific Databases 2000, Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing 2000, European Conference on Digital Libraries 1998). He has been a (co-)principal investigator in over twenty five research projects funded by various government agencies (USA, Europe, Greece) or private industry. He is currently an Associate Editor of five journals (Information Systems, VLDB Journal, Journal of Digital Libraries, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, and the electronic ACM Digital Symposium Collection) and has been a member of the program committees of over sixty conferences, five times as (co-)chair (EDBT, VLDB, HDMS, SSDBM, and VDB). He has served on the review board for the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories in Berkeley and on the Science Council of the (now defunct) CESDIS Center for Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences. Finally, between July 2002 and March 2004 he served as the Information Technology advisor to the Minister of Health of Greece.