Ioannis Emiris

Ioannis Emiris is President and General Director of “Athena” Research Center since April 2021, and a  Professor of Informatics & Telecommunications at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens  since 2002. He has been a Researcher at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (1995-2002). He obtained his BScEng  from Princeton University (1989), and his MSc and PhD from U.C. Berkeley (1991 and 1994), all in  Computer Science. He was a member of the Scientific board of Hellenic Foundation of Research &  Innovation, representing Informatics and Mathematics (2018-2021). He has founded and leads the Lab  of Geometric and Algebraic Algorithms, which has enjoyed funding through several European, bilateral,  national, as well as industrial projects. He has supervised 13 PhD theses and has coordinated the MSc  program in “Data Science & Information Technologies”, joint between NKUA, “Athena”, and BRFAA  (2018-2021). He is co-owner of one 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 & Algebraic Computation; his H-index is 40. He is the chief  scientist of a high-tech startup company.