Vazirgiannis Michael

Professor Michalis Vazirgiannis is affiliated with the Informatics Department at Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB). He holds a PhD in Informatics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (1994), with prior degrees in Physics, Robotics, and Knowledge-Based Systems. His research focuses on data mining, machine learning, clustering algorithms, and web mining. He has led EU-funded projects like SQO-OSS and NGWeMiS, and contributed to initiatives like DB-GLOBE and I-KnowUMine. Awards include ERCIM Post-Doctoral Scholarship (2001) and Marie Curie Fellowship (2006). He serves on editorial boards (e.g., IDA Journal) and program committees for conferences like IEEE/ICDM and ECML/PKDD. His work spans theoretical advancements and practical applications in distributed systems, semantic networks, and temporal graph analysis.

• Education:
• BSc Physics, NKUA (1986)
• MSc Robotics, NKUA (1988)
• MSc Knowledge-Based Systems, Heriot-Watt University (1989)
• PhD Informatics, NKUA (1994)

Research interests include semi-supervised learning, page ranking, and distributed feature selection. His publications address clustering frameworks, peer-to-peer systems, and normalized PageRank for evolving graphs. He has contributed to patents and held visiting researcher positions at INRIA, Fraunhofer, Max Planck, and IBM India.