Aristides Gionis
Aristides Gionis is a professor in the department of Computer Science in Aalto University. His previous appointments include being a visiting professor in the University of Rome and a senior research scientist in Yahoo! Research. He is currently serving as an action editor in the Data Management and Knowledge Discovery journal (DMKD), an associate editor in the ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), and a managing editor in Internet Mathematics. He has contributed in several areas of data science, such as algorithmic data analysis, web mining, social-media analysis, data clustering, and privacy-preserving data mining. His current research is funded by the Academy of Finland (projects Nestor, Agra, AIDA) and the European Commission (project SoBigData).
Areas of expertise
Honors and awards
Best student paper award: “Discovering dynamic communities in interaction networks” (supervising the summer internship project of Polina Rozenshtein), ECML PKDD 2014
Best paper award: “On the feasibility of multi-site web search engines”, CIKM 2009
Best student paper award: “Fast shortest path distance estimation in large networks” (supervising the summer internship project of Michalis Potamias), CIKM 2009
Best paper award: “The discrete-basis problem”, PKDD 2004
Microsoft Research Fellowship, 2001 – 2003
Best Paper Award
Research groups
- Computer Science Adjunct Professors, Adjunct Professor
- Adj. Prof. Gionis Aris group, Adjunct Professor
- Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT), Adjunct Professor