2026 Michalis Vazirgiannis: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	59	3353	3257	55	54	411	20435

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in France Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in France Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in France Leader Award

Overview

Michalis Vazirgiannis is affiliated with École Polytechnique in France. Their academic contributions lie primarily in the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Molecular Biology, and Information Systems.

The research topics Vazirgiannis has concentrated on include:

Advanced Graph Neural Networks
Complex Network Analysis Techniques
Topic Modeling
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Graph Theory and Algorithms
Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Computational Drug Discovery Methods

Recent scholarly papers authored or coauthored by Vazirgiannis encompass:

"Degeneracy-Based Real-Time Sub-Event Detection in Twitter Stream," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
"Graph Kernels: A Survey," 2021, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
"Modularity-aware graph autoencoders for joint community detection and link prediction," 2022, Neural Networks
"BARThez: a Skilled Pretrained French Sequence-to-Sequence Model," 2021, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
"Synthetic electronic health records generated with variational graph autoencoders," 2023, npj Digital Medicine

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Vazirgiannis include:

Giannis Nikolentzos
Johannes F. Lutzeyer
Henrik Boström
Christos Xypolopoulos
Michail Chatzianastasis

Publication venues where Vazirgiannis has frequently contributed comprise:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Neural Networks
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

Best Publications

On Clustering Validation Techniques

Maria Halkidi;Yannis Batistakis;Michalis Vazirgiannis

3839
Citations
Web mining for web personalization

Magdalini Eirinaki;Michalis Vazirgiannis

1440
Citations
A foundation for representing and querying moving objects

Ralf Hartmut Güting;Michael H. Böhlen;Martin Erwig;Christian S. Jensen

1170
Citations
Clustering and Community Detection in Directed Networks: A Survey

Fragkiskos D. Malliaros;Michalis Vazirgiannis;Michalis Vazirgiannis

1019
Citations
Cluster validity methods: part I

Maria Halkidi;Yannis Batistakis;Michalis Vazirgiannis

788
Citations
Clustering validity checking methods: part II

Maria Halkidi;Yannis Batistakis;Michalis Vazirgiannis

722
Citations
Clustering validity assessment: finding the optimal partitioning of a data set

M. Halkidi;M. Vazirgiannis

660
Citations
Spatio-Temporal Data Types: An Approach to Modeling and Querying Moving Objects in Databases

Martin Erwig;Ralf Hartmut Güting;Markus Schneider;Michalis Vazirgiannis

652
Citations
Spatio-temporal indexing for large multimedia applications

Y. Theoderidis;M. Vazirgiannis;T. Sellis

501
Citations
Quality Scheme Assessment in the Clustering Process

Maria Halkidi;Michalis Vazirgiannis;Yannis Batistakis

479
Citations
A Spatiotemporal Model and Language for Moving Objects on Road Networks

Michalis Vazirgiannis;Ouri Wolfson

277
Citations
Clustering algorithms and validity measures

M. Halkidi;Y. Batistakis;M. Vazirgiannis

240
Citations
Matching Node Embeddings for Graph Similarity

Giannis Nikolentzos;Polykarpos Meladianos;Michalis Vazirgiannis

214
Citations
SEWeP: using site semantics and a taxonomy to enhance the Web personalization process

M. Eirinaki;M. Vazirgiannis;I. Varlamis

213
Citations
Spatio-temporal composition and indexing for large multimedia applications

Michael Vazirgiannis;Yannis Theodoridis;Timos Sellis

200
Citations
Text relatedness based on a word thesaurus

George Tsatsaronis;Iraklis Varlamis;Michalis Vazirgiannis

198
Citations
SKYPEER: Efficient Subspace Skyline Computation over Distributed Data

A. Vlachou;C. Doulkeridis;Y. Kotidis;M. Vazirgiannis

189
Citations
Graph-of-word and TW-IDF: new approach to ad hoc IR

François Rousseau;Michalis Vazirgiannis

182
Citations
Locating influential nodes in complex networks.

Fragkiskos D. Malliaros;Maria-Evgenia G. Rossi;Michalis Vazirgiannis

179
Citations
Bridging XML-schema and relational databases: a system for generating and manipulating relational databases using valid XML documents

Iraklis Varlamis;Michalis Vazirgiannis

177
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kjetil Nørvåg Norwegian University of Science and Technology

George Tsatsaronis Technical University of Berlin

Timos Sellis Athena Research Center

Dimitrios M. Thilikos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Dimitrios Gunopulos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Gerhard Weikum Max Planck Institute for Informatics

Yannis Kotidis Athens University of Economics and Business

Jie Tang Tsinghua University

Jesse Read École Polytechnique

Martin Erwig Oregon State University

External Links

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