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2026

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Computer Science

D-Index
68
Citations
19974
World Ranking
2069
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Greece Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Greece Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Greece Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Greece Leader Award
  • 2011 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2010 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to database systems including query optimization and data management
  • 2004 - ACM Fellow For contributions to database systems, particularly query optimization.

Overview

Yannis E. Ioannidis is affiliated with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Their research work primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Neuroscience, Information Systems, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's main topics of research cover a diverse range of areas. These include:

  • Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
  • Digital Storytelling and Education
  • Advanced Database Systems and Queries
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Scientific Computing and Data Management
  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Cloud Computing and Resource Management

A selection of recent publications illustrates the scope and variety of their work. These include:

  • Towards a European health research and innovation cloud (HRIC), 2020, published in Genome Medicine
  • "Let Them Talk!", 2020, published in Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage
  • History education done different: A collaborative interactive digital storytelling approach for remote learners, 2022, published in Frontiers in Education
  • The coming decade of digital brain research: A vision for neuroscience at the intersection of technology and computing, 2024, published in Imaging Neuroscience
  • Human-AI coevolution, 2024, published in Artificial Intelligence

Their frequent co-authors include Akrivi Katifori with whom they have collaborated on 22 publications, Dimitra Petousi (9 publications), Μαρία Ρούσσου (8 publications), Maria Vayanou (7 publications), and Katerina El Raheb (7 publications).

Yannis E. Ioannidis has published extensively across various academic venues. The prominent publication venues with multiple contributions are:

  • Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (6 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (5 publications)
  • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (4 publications)
  • Communications of the ACM (3 publications)
  • Wearable Technologies (2 publications)

The scientist's career has included recognition through various awards. These include being named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2011, an IEEE Fellow in 2010 for contributions to database systems including query optimization and data management, and an ACM Fellow in 2004 for contributions specifically to database systems and query optimization.

Best Publications

  • Protein Data Bank: the single global archive for 3D macromolecular structure data

    Stephen K Burley;Helen M Berman;Charmi Bhikadiya

  • Improved histograms for selectivity estimation of range predicates

    Viswanath Poosala;Peter J. Haas;Yannis E. Ioannidis;Eugene J. Shekita

  • Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence Assumption

    Viswanath Poosala;Yannis E. Ioannidis

  • The history of histograms (abridged)

    Yannis Ioannidis

  • Bitmap index design and evaluation

    Chee-Yong Chan;Yannis E. Ioannidis

  • Randomized algorithms for optimizing large join queries

    Y. E. Ioannidis;Younkyung Kang

  • Query optimization

    Yannis E. Ioannidis

  • On the propagation of errors in the size of join results

    Yannis E. Ioannidis;Stavros Christodoulakis

  • Balancing histogram optimality and practicality for query result size estimation

    Yannis E. Ioannidis;Viswanath Poosala

  • The New Jersey Data Reduction Report.

    Daniel Barbará;William DuMouchel;Christos Faloutsos;Peter J. Haas

  • The Claremont report on database research

    Rakesh Agrawal;Anastasia Ailamaki;Philip A. Bernstein;Eric A. Brewer

  • Query optimization by simulated annealing

    Yannis E. Ioannidis;Eugene Wong

  • Strategic directions in human-computer interaction

    Brad Myers;Jim Hollan;Isabel Cruz;Steve Bryson

  • Advances in database technology - EDBT 2006 : 10th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Munich, Germany, March 2006; proceedings

    Yannis Ioannidis;Marc H. Scholl;Joachim W. Schmidt;Florian Matthes

  • Histogram-Based Approximation of Set-Valued Query-Answers

    Yannis E. Ioannidis;Viswanath Poosala

  • The Use of Information Capacity in Schema Integration and Translation

    Renée J. Miller;Yannis E. Ioannidis;Raghu Ramakrishnan

  • An efficient bitmap encoding scheme for selection queries

    Chee-Yong Chan;Yannis E. Ioannidis

  • Parametric query optimization

    Yannis E. Ioannidis;Raymond T. Ng;Kyuseok Shim;Timos K. Sellis

  • Left-deep vs. bushy trees: an analysis of strategy spaces and its implications for query optimization

    Yannis E. Ioannidis;Younkyung Cha Kang

  • The Delos digital library reference model : foundations for digital libraries

    L. Candela;D. Castelli;N. Ferro;Y. Ioannidis

Frequent Co-Authors

Georgia Koutrika
Georgia Koutrika Athena Research Center
Miron Livny
Miron Livny University of Wisconsin–Madison
Evgeny Kharlamov
Evgeny Kharlamov University of Oslo
Raghu Ramakrishnan
Raghu Ramakrishnan Microsoft (United States)
Minos Garofalakis
Minos Garofalakis Technical University of Crete
Yannis Kotidis
Yannis Kotidis Athens University of Economics and Business
Ian Horrocks
Ian Horrocks University of Oxford
Alkis Simitsis
Alkis Simitsis Micro Focus (United States)
Gerhard Weikum
Gerhard Weikum Max Planck Institute for Informatics

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