Yannis Ioannidis, President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
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 (Jan 2011 – Feb 2021). He received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the
National Technical University of Athens in 1982, his MSc in Applied Mathematics from
Harvard University in 1983, and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the
University of California-Berkeley in 1986. Immediately after that he joined the faculty of the
Computer Sciences Department of the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he became a Professor before finally leaving in 1999. 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. He also holds four patents. Coordinator and legal entity head of
OpenAIRE, the software director of the European
Human Brain Project flagship initiative, the coordinator of the
EOSC Future strategic project, and a (co-)principal investigator of over 100 research projects funded by various government agencies (USA, Europe, Greece) or private industry. Greek delegate in the
European Open Science Cloud Steering Board, the ESFRI representative to the
e-Infrastructures Reflection Group (e-IRG), an expert in the Programme Committee on
Research Infrastructures within the European Commission's Horizon2020 Framework Programme, as well as the co-chair of the Global Climate Hub of the
UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN SDSN).