Yannis Velegrakis

Yannis Velegrakis (M) is a professor of Computer Science at Utrecht University, where he holds the chair of Very Large Data Management. He is the head the Data Intensive Systems group and the leader of the Master's in Data Science. He is also a faculty member at the University of Trento, and coordinator of the Data Intelligence Research Program. His research area of expertise includes Big Data Understanding, Social Data Analysis, Knowledge Discovery, Big Data Management & Analytics, Highly Heterogeneous Information Integration & Data Exchange, User-centric Querying Techniques for Massive Heterogeneous Datasets, Personalization & Recommendation, and Data Quality. He holds a PhD degree from the University of Toronto and a MSc. and BSc. degree from the University of Crete, all in Computer Science. In the past he has been a researcher at the AT&T Research Labs. He has spent time for research work at IBM Almaden Research Center, the Huawei European Research Center in Munich, the Center of Advanced Studies of the IBM Toronto Lab, University of California, Santa-Cruz, and the University of Paris-Saclay. He has been the general chair of VLDB 2013 and ICDE 2024, the PC Chair of EDBT 2021, and area chair in multiple VLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE, and EDBT Conferences. He is currently serving as president on the board of EDBT Association, as a member on the VLDB Board of Trustees, and the board of the SIKS Research School, and as associate editor for Systems on the SIGMOD Record editorial team.