Yannis Tzitzikas (Γιάννης Τζίτζικας)

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Bio

Yannis Tzitzikas is Professor of Information Systems in the Computer Science Department at University of Crete (Greece) and Affiliated Researcher of the Information Systems Laboratory at FORTH-ICS (Greece). He studied at the University of Crete and he conducted post-doctoral research at (a) the University of Namur (Belgium), (b) ISTI-CNR (Pisa, Italy) and (c) VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.

His expertise lies in Information Systems, specifically in Knowledge Management and Information Retrieval. His research focuses on semantic data integration, exploratory search, and digital preservation. He has coauthored 3 books and more than 180 papers in refereed journals and conferences (including ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Transactions on the Web, VLDB Journal, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, JIIS, JDAPD, ECIR, ISWC, EWSC), he has received four best paper awards (at CIA'2003, ISWC'07, MTSR'20 and ISWC'22) as well as other awards). He has supervised three PhDs, 26 MSc theses and more than 50 Diploma Theses. He actively participates το EU projects (totaling more than 1,5 MEuros funding for FORTH-ICS) and participates to the scientific committees of several international conferences and journals.

Since 2005 he coordinates the Semantic Access and Retrieval group, and from 2019 also the Centre for Cultural Informatics of the Information Systems Laboratory of FORTH-ICS. He is the coordinator of the Clarity and Open Data Management Team of the University of Crete and he is member of the Executive Committee ERCIM (the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics).

A detailed CV is available here .

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Teaching

At the Computer Science Department of the University of Crete

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Students

  • How to contact me: click
  • List of current and past students: click
  • Current topics for diploma theses: contact me first.
  • The web page of Security and Health of our Department: click
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Research Group

I coordinate the Semantic Access and Retrieval group, and the Centre for Cultural Informatics of the Information Systems Laboratory (ISL) of the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of FORTH .
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Publications

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Research Prototypes

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Projects

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Seminars

Recent seminars and tutorials.

Research Ones:

  • Semantic Integration in the Marine Domain and Beyond, Tutorial at EUDAT Summer School on Research Data Management July 3-7, 2017, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
  • Semantic Integration of Marine Data, BlueBRIDGE Webinar, June 28, 2017 [slides in pdf], [youtube]
  • Semantic Integration of Data, Invited tutorial given in the ITN-DCH (Initial Training Network for Digital Cultural Herigage) summer school 2016 (collocated with Computer Graphics International 2016 - CGI'16), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 27, 2016 [slides in pdf].
  • Exploratory Search through Preference-enriched Faceted Search, Invited Seminar given in the Departement Informatique de Blois, Universite de Tours Francois Rebelais, Blois, France, April 15, 2015 (visit April 14-April 16, 2015) [slides in pdf].
  • Bridging the Web of Documents with the Web of Data at Search Time, 3rd MUMIA Training School, July 21-25, 2014, Heraklion, Greece [slides in pdf].

For the local community:

  • Προοπτικές από την Καλή Διαχείριση και Ολοκλήρωση Ανοικτών Δεδομένων , Ημερίδα Ανοικτά Δεδομένα και GDPR, Οργάνωση: Ινστιτούτο Επιμόρφωσης (ΙΝ.ΕΠ.) του Εθνικού Κέντρου Δημόσιας Διοίκησης και Αυτοδιοίκησης (ΕΚΔΔΑ), 16 Δεκ 2019, Ηράκλειο [διαφάνειες σε pdf]
  • Πληροφοριακά Συστήματα - ανακτώντας πληροφορία και γνώση στον παγκόσμιο ιστό , Ημερίδα Τμήματος Επιστήμης Υπολογιστών για Μαθητές Λυκείων (2/2/2017) [ διαφάνειες σε pdf]
  • Πληροφοριακά Συστήματα - ανακτώντας πληροφορία και γνώση στον παγκόσμιο ιστό , Ημερίδα Τμήματος Επιστήμης Υπολογιστών για Μαθητές Λυκείων (3/4/2015) [ διαφάνειες σε pdf, σχετική ιστοσελίδα με video].
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PC Memberships and Other Scientific Activities

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Awards and Fellowships

  • Best Resource Paper Award at the 21st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2022), for the work: M. Mountantonakis and Y. Tzitzikas, LODChain: Strengthen the Connectivity of your RDF Dataset to the Rest LOD Cloud
  • Best Paper Award at the 14th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2020) Dec 2-4, 2020, for the work: Y. Marketakis, Y. Tzitzikas, A. Gentile, B. van Niekerk and M. Taconet, On the Evolution of Semantic Warehouses: The Case of Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries.
  • Best Poster Presentation Award-ICS at the 12th FORTH RETREAT 2019, Patra, Oct 15-16, 2019, for the work: Michalis Mountantonakis and Yannis Tzitzikas, Services for Connecting and Integrating Big Number of Datasets.
  • Recognized Reviewer Award at the 41th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2019), 14-18 April, 2019, Cologne, Germany
  • Best Reviewer Award at the 36th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2014), 13-16 April, 2014 Amsterdam (one of the four winners)
  • Best Paper Award (web) at the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'2007), Korea, Nov. 2007, for the paper "On the Foundations of Computing Deltas between RDF models" (work done in collaboration with the MSc student D. Zeginis and Prof. V. Christophides).
  • Best Paper Award (web) in the CIA'2003 conference for the work entitled "Ostensive Automatic Schema Mapping for Taxonomy-based Peer-to-Peer Systems" (joint work with Carlo Meghini).
  • ERCIM fellow (October 2002-April 2004) for postdoctoral studies at ISTI-CNR (Italy) and VTT (Finland).
  • Maria Michael Manasaki legacy's fellowship (Sep 2001 - Sep 2002) awarded to the best graduate student of Computer Science department of the University of Crete, once a year.
  • Fellowship from FORTH-ICS (June 1992 - October 1997 and December 1999 - September 2002) for graduate studies.
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Service

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How to contact me

For students of CSD: please click

University of Crete

  • Office: K221
  • Telephone: +30 2810 393 521
  • Email: tzitzik at csd.uoc.gr
  • Postal address: Computer Science Department, University of Crete, Voutes Campus, 700 13 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

FORTH-ICS

  • Office: Gamma 145
  • Telephone: +30 2810 391 621
  • Fax: +30 2810 391 638
  • Email: tzitzik at ics.forth.gr
  • Postal address: Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), N. Plastira 100, Vassilika Vouton, GR-700 13 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

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