Michalis Vazirgiannis

13 December 2023

Professor at LIX, Ecole Polytechnique in France and director of the Data Science and Mining (DaSciM) group. Dr Vazirgiannis holds a degree in Physics and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Athens (Greece) and a Master’s degree in AI from Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh (UK). He actively collaborates with industrial partners in the area of analytics and machine learning for large data repositories in various application domains (including recommendations, meeting summarisation, influence metrics for scientific and social networks, predictive maintenance, and others). He has published three books and more than 160 papers in international refereed journals and conferences. He has organised major conferences in the field of data mining and machine learning (such as ECML/PKDD), while he participates in the leading PCs of AI and ML conferences – such as AAAI and IJCAI. He has received the ERCIM and Marie Curie EU grants, the Tencent “Rhino-Bird International Academic Expert Award” in 2017, and he has held the AXA Data Science Chair since 2015. His current research interests are in machine/deep learning and combinatorial methods for graph analysis (including community detection, graph clustering, node embeddings and influence maximisation), text mining (including graph of words, word embeddings with applications to web advertising and marketing, event detection and summarisation).