Prof. Ioannis Emiris
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Prof. Ioannis Emiris
Project Coordinator
Director AthenaRC & NKUA Dept. Informatics
About Me
Ioannis Emiris is President of the Board of Directors, and Director General of Athena Research Center since 2021. He is Professor of Informatics & Telecommunications at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens since 2002. He has been Tenured Researcher at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis from 1995 to 2002, and an external collaborator since then, affiliated to the Geometric Modeling group.
He obtained his BScEng from Princeton University in 1989, his MSc and PhD from University of California at Berkeley in 1991 and 1994, respectively, and his Habilitation from Universite' de Nice, France in 2000, all in Computer Science. He has been a long-term visiting researcher or faculty in various institutions worldwide, including ETL Tsukuba (Japan), Foundation of Research and Technology -- Hellas, Ontario Research Center in Computer Algebra, Simons Institute (Berkeley), ENS Paris, USI Lugano, ETH Zurich, IHES Paris, and JRC Ispra.
During 2018 to 2021, he served as a member of the scientific board of Hellenic Foundation of Research and Innovation, representing Informatics and Mathematics. He has been the director of the Master's Program in Data Science and Information Technologies (2018-2021), joint between NKUA, Athena RC, and BRFAA. Today, he is a member of the Scientific Expert Panel for the Computation-Based Science and Technology Research Center of the Cyprus Institute. He has founded and leads the Lab of Geometric and Algebraic Algorithms, which has enjoyed funding through more than 20 European, bilateral, national, and industrial projects; he has coordinated a number of them, including three H2020 MSCA networks. His research interests span Scientific Computing, Computational Geometry, Robotics, Bioinformatics, and Machine Learning. He has been the main supervisor of 17 PhD theses, 8 postdoctoral fellows, and a number of MSc and BSc theses.
Ioannis Emiris is author of one scientific textbook, co-editor of two volumes, co-owner of an industrial patent, and author of more than 130 journal articles and peer-reviewed conference publications, of which two earned the Distinguished Paper Award at ACM International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC). He is associate editor of “J. Symbolic Computation”, “Math for Computer Science”, and “Applicable Algebra to Engineering, Communication and Computing”. He has been member of several conference Program Committees, PC chair of ISSAC 2011, general co-chair of ISSAC 2020, and invited speaker in a number of meetings including the German Mathematical Society’s Symposium on Discrete Mathematics 2018, the Hausdorff School in Geometric Data Science 2021, the International conference on Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing 2021, and the European Workshop in Computational Geometry 2024. He is chief scientist in a high-tech startup company.