Yiannis Kompatsiaris
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas Senior Research on IT
Thessaloniki, Greece
Dr. Ioannis (Yiannis) Kompatsiaris is a Researcher Director at CERTH-ITI, the Head of Multimedia Knowledge and Social Media Analytics Laboratory and Deputy Director of the Institute.
His research interests include multimedia, big data and social media analytics, semantics, human computer interfaces (AR and BCI), eHealth, security and culture applications. He is the co-author of 129 papers in refereed journals, 46 book chapters, 8 patents and more than 420 papers in international conferences. Since 2001, Dr. Kompatsiaris has participated in 59 National and European research programs including direct collaboration with industry, in 15 of which he has been the Project Coordinator and in 41 the Principal Investigator.
He is co-editor of the books “Semantic Multimedia and Ontologies: Theory and Applications” and “TV Content Analysis: Techniques and Applications”, the guest editor of eight special issues, including “Social Media as Sensors” in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and he has served as a program committee member and regular reviewer for a number of international journals and conferences. He has been the co-organizer of various conferences and workshops, such as the MMM 2019, ΙΕΕΕ IVMSP 2018, ACM CIVR 2009, WIAMIS 2007 and SSMS 2012 and he was a program co-chair for ACM MM 2016.