Distinction
2025
13/11/2025
Associate Professor George Alexandropoulos is included in the Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher 2025 list in the field Computer Science.
The Highly Cited Researchers program identifies and celebrates individuals who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their field of research.…
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…
