Manos Papagelis

Dr. Manos Papagelis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at York University's Lassonde School of Engineering. He serves as the Graduate Program Director for the MSc and MScAI programs. His research focuses on data science and machine learning, particularly in data mining, graph mining, big data analytics, mobility analytics, and knowledge discovery.

Education: PhD in Computer Science (University of Toronto), MSc and BSc in Computer Science (University of Crete, Greece). Prior to York, he held postdoctoral and research roles at UC Berkeley, Yahoo! Labs Barcelona, and FORTH, Greece.

Research emphasizes trajectory analysis, emotion recognition, and scalable systems. Recent work includes TrajLearn (2025) and Disease Outbreak Detection (2025), highlighting contributions to mobility and health informatics. He has filed three U.S. patents and designed systems like Confious (conference management) and Green2.0 (socio-technical building analysis).

Honors include the Lassonde Educator of the Year (2021) and IEEE MDM Best Paper Awards (2020, 2018). His advising spans interdisciplinary teams in AI and data science, with active involvement in grants related to mobility analytics and healthcare technologies.

Labs/Teams: Director of the Data Mining Lab, collaborating on projects like trajectory prediction and emotion-aware systems.