Distinction
2023
30/06/2023
Professor Yannis Smaragdakis of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications received an ERC Advanced Grant, a prestigious research distinction.
The ERC Advanced Grant, i.e., the "big" funding of the European Research Council (ERC), is probably the most sought-after research funding…
2022
14/06/2022
Assistant Professor George Alexandropoulos was recently named Distinguished Lecturer for the years 2022 and 2023 by the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc). IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Speakers are nominated for a two-year term, may be appointed more than once, and may continue to serve for an…
07/06/2022
ACM has elected Yannis Ioannidis as President for a two-year term beginning July 1. Ioannidis is a Professor of Informatics & Telecom at the University of Athens, Greece, and a Fellow of ACM and IEEE. An ACM member since 1983, he has served as ACM Secretary/Treasurer (2018–2020), SIGMOD Chair…
2021
05/06/2021
The European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Academia Scientiarium et Artium Europaea) met on 21-5-2021 and elected Professor Georgios Kouroupetroglou a Full Member in the Class of Technical & Environmental Sciences.
Professor George Kouroupetroglou is Head of the Department of Informatics and…
17/05/2021
The annual ranking for top scientists in the area of Computer Science and Electronics, published by Guide2Research (www.guide2research.com), includes six (6) professors from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications: Dimitrios Gunopoulos, Yannis Ioannidis, Dimitris Achlioptas, Sergios…
2020
04/06/2020
The annual ranking for top scientists in the area of Computer Science and Electronics, published by Guide2Research (www.guide2research.com), includes five professors from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications: Dimitrios Gunopoulos, Yannis Ioannidis, Dimitris Achlioptas, Manolis…
30/04/2020
The Narralive team won 2nd place prize in the final of the 12th ENNOVATION competition (University Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition - https://ennovation.gr), research-based innovation track, which was organized by the Athens University of Economics and Business. The same team had won 1st…
2019
31/07/2019
The paper "MadMax: surviving out-of-gas conditions in Ethereum smart contracts" by researchers Neville Grech and Yannis Smaragdakis of the University of Athens (together with colleagues from U.Sydney), which earlier earned a "Distinguished Paper award" at the OOPSLA 2018 conference, was selected as…
2015
04/07/2015
Prof. M. Koubarakis has been selected in 2015 as a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI). The EurAI Fellows Program honors only a very small percentage of the total membership of all EurAI member societies (up to a maximum of 3%).
See also https://www.eurai.org/…
2013
22/11/2013
The following faculty members of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the NKUA have been awarded IEEE Fellowship:
Prof. D. Gizopoulos: “for contributions to microprocessor architectures self-testing and on-line error detection”, 2013.
Prof. Y. Ioannidis: “for contributions to…
2011
04/07/2011
Prof. S. Theodoridis: “For contributions to adaptive signal processing and machine learning”, 2011.