Panagiotis Karras

Panagiotis Karras is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, with a faculty affiliate status at Aarhus University. His research focuses on robust and versatile methods for data access, mining, and representation.

• Education: MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National Technical University of Athens, PhD in Computer Science from University of Hong Kong

Research Interests: Spanning data management systems, graph algorithms, and privacy-preserving data publishing, his work addresses challenges in efficient query processing, influence propagation in networks, and semantic-aware data compression. Notable contributions include adaptive indexing techniques, graph alignment frameworks, and algorithms for fair stable marriage problems.

Recent Publications (2024-2025): Focus on graph alignment, subgraph matching, and influence maximization, with applications to knowledge graphs, social networks, and time-series data analytics.

Scientific Recognition:

• 2008 Young Scientist Award from the Hong Kong Institute of Science
• Keynote invitations at ACM SIGKDD and IEEE ICDE

Professor Karras actively seeks motivated PhD students to collaborate on these research directions. His lab maintains a powerful compute cluster and modern facilities for data-intensive research.