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 Professor Emeritus of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and Member of Academia Europaea, London. Also, he is Member of the Board of the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki. 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 has served as Dean of the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences and Vice-Rector. Also, he 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. Currently, he is student of the Graduate Program on Creative Writing of the Hellenic Open University.

His research interest focuses 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 >18700 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 (among others): 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, 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, 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.