Aris Gionis

Research Area: Search Technologies
Location: Yahoo! Research Barcelona

Profile

Aris Gionis is a research scientist in Yahoo! Research, Barcelona. He received his Ph.D from the Computer Science department of Stanford University in 2003, and between 2003 and 2006 he has been a senior researcher at the Basic Research Unit of Helsinki Institute of Information Technology, Finland. His research interests include data mining, web mining, and algorithmic data analysis.

Aris is currently serving as an associate editor in the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) and the journal of Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS). He has served as PC co-chair of ECML PKDD 2010. His recent PC memberships include being a PC area chair in KDD 2011, ICDE 2012, and ECML PKDD 2012, and a PC member in WWW 2012, SIGMOD 2012, and PODS 2012.

Recent Publications, Projects and News

  • Yahoo! Labs Showcases Scientific Excellence in 2009 - 2009 was a stellar year at Yahoo! Labs as it won seven best paper awards at these top conferences in the industry.
  • Yahoo! Wins Best Paper at CIKM 2009 - Yahoo! Labs outperformed its previous year’s presence, taking the awards for best paper, best student paper, and runner-up student paper out of a record 30 accepted papers.