Yannis Manolopoulos

Yannis Manolopoulos holds a 5-years Diploma degree in Electrical Engineering (1981) and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering (1986), both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is Member of Academia Europaea, London. Also, he is Professor Emeritus of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and Professor Emeritus of the Open University of Cyprus. Currently, he is Member of the Board of the University of Macedonia at Thessaloniki, Visiting Professor of the University of Nicosia, Cyprus, as well as student of the Graduate Program on Creative Writing of the Hellenic Open University.

He has been with the University of Toronto, the University of Maryland at College Park, the University of Cyprus, the Hellenic Open University and the Open University of Cyprus, where he has served as Vice-Rector and Dean of the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences. Also, he has served as Head of the Department of Informatics of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, President of the Board of the University of Western Macedonia in Greece, Vice-President of the Greek Computer Society, President of the Excellence Committee of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Member of the Board of Alexander Innovation Zone and Member of the Board of the Research and Innovation Foundation of Cyprus. 

His research interests focus in Data Management. He has co-authored 6 monographs and 10 textbooks (in Greek), as well as >350 journal and conference papers. He has received >19000 citations from >3000 distinct academic institutions from >100 countries (h-index=62 according to Google Scholar, d-index=64 according to Research.com). He has also received 5 best paper awards from SIGMOD, ECML/PKDD, MEDES (2) and ISSPIT conferences. Currently, he serves in the Editorial Boards of the following journals (inter alia): Digital (Editor-in-Chief), The Computer Journal (Deputy Editor), SN Computer Science (Track Editor), Information Systems, World Wide Web, Expert Systems, Data Science & Analytics.

He has delivered keynote talks at 25 conferences at: Albania, Algeria, Austria, Bulgaria, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Greece, India, Italy, Kosovo, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Morocco, Panama, Poland, Romania and Russia. External member of 20 doctoral examination committees at: Brazil, Denmark, France, Italy, Poland and Spain. Evaluator for national funding agencies at: Austria, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, EU, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hong-Kong, Israel, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland and UK. Evaluator for university programs at: Denmark, Latvia and Lithuania. Organizer of conferences and workshops at: Australia, Brazil, China, Cyprus, France, Greece, India, Italy, Latvia, Lebanon, North Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Tunisia, Turkey and UAE. He supervised and acted as mentor for 27 doctoral graduates who have had careers at: Canada, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, UAE, UK, USA, as well as at Cyprus and Greece.