NTNU - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Professor of the Computer Science of the University of Crete
- Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Crete
Biography
Vassilis Christophides is a Professor of the Computer Science of the University of Crete. From 2015 until 2019 he has elected to an advanced research position at INRIA-Paris. Previously, he worked as a Distinguished Scientist at Technicolor, R&I Center in Paris (2013-2015) and as senior researcher at FORTH-ICS (2002-2013). He has also served as visiting professor the Applied Mathematics department of the Ecole CentraleSupélec (2016-2018), the Computer Science department of the University of California San Diego (2000), and as visiting researcher the Network Data & Services Group of Lucent Bell-Labs (1999 and 2000).
He studied Electrical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 1988, he received his DEA in computer science from the University PARIS VI in 1992, and his Ph.D. from the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers (CNAM) of Paris, in 1996. After joining the faculty of the Computer Sciences Department of the University of Crete as Assistant Professor in 2002, he became an Associate Professor in 2004 and a Professor in 2009.
His main research interests include Machine Learning Systems, Data Science and Big Data Processing, Databases and Web Information Systems, as well as Digital Libraries and Scientific Systems. On these topics, he has published over 140 articles in leading journals and conferences. His research work is driven by the need to manage, process and analyze post-relational data (semi- or unstructured) in centralized, distributed and streaming settings often in the context of other scientific fields (e.g., Cultural Heritage, Environmental Sciences, Educational Sciences, etc.). His work has received more than 6300 citations according to Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KolmTncAAAAJ) with an h-index 41.
He made substantial research contributions in the area of the Semantic Web on
Vassilis serves as an elected member the Executive Board (EB) of the Extending Data Base Technology (EDBT) Association. He also participated in several Scientific Advisory Boards of Higher Education (Greek National Academic Recognition Information Center) or Research organizations (Greek National Science & Technology Council, Research Council of Norway, and National Research Agency of France). He has been scientific coordinator of 22 research projects funded by the European Union, the Greek State of the private sector.