Dr. Ioannis Katakis

Associate Professor and co-Director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the Department of Computer Science

University of Nicosia

Dr Ioannis Katakis is an Associate Professor and co-Director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab (ailab.unic.ac.cy) at the Department of Computer Science at UNIC. Born and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece, he studied Computer Science and holds a PhD in Machine Learning for Text Classification (Aristotle University, 2009). After his postgraduate studies, he served various universities as a lecturer and a senior researcher. Recently, Ioannis has been included in the “Ioannidis list” of “Top 45 young Greek scientists” based on the impact of his work. His research interests include Mining Social, Web and Urban Data, Smart Cities, Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining, Deep Learning, Data Streams and Multi-label Learning. He has published papers in International Conferences and Scientific Journals related to his areas of expertise, organised multiple workshops, and special issues and is an Editor at the journal Information Systems. His research has been cited more than 5000 times in the literature. He has extensive experience in European research projects where he participated as a Quality Assurance Coordinator and a Senior Researcher. He regularly serves the program committee of international conferences and evaluates articles in scientific journals.