Yannis Manolopoulos
Professor, Open University of Cyprus

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. He is Professor of the Open University of
Cyprus, as well as Professor Emeritus of the Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki. Also, he is Member of the Board of the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki. Moreover, he is Member of Academia Europaea, London. He has been
with the University of Toronto, the University of Maryland at College Park,
the
University of Cyprus and the Hellenic Open University. He has served as Vice-Rector
of the Open University of Cyprus, President of the Board of the University of
Western Macedonia in Greece and Vice-President of the Greek Computer Society.
Currently, he serves as Dean of the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences of the
Open University of Cyprus and Member of the Board
of the Research and
Innovation Foundation of Cyprus.
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 >17500
citations from >2700 distinct academic institutions from >100 countries
(h-index=60 according to Google Scholar,
d-index=61 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: Austria, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, EU, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hong-Kong, Israel, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Russia and Switzerland, UK. Evaluator for university programs at: Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania. Organizer of conferences and workshops at: Australia, Brazil, China, Cyprus, France, Greece, Latvia, Lebanon, North Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Tunisia, Turkey and UAE.
He supervised and acted as mentor for 25 doctoral graduates who have had careers at: Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, UK, USA, as well as at Cyprus and Greece.