Yannis Tzitzikas

Yannis Tzitzikas is Professor of Information Systems at the University of Crete and Affiliated Researcher at FORTH-ICS. He directs the Centre for Cultural Informatics and Semantic Access & Retrieval group, developing frameworks for large-scale semantic integration.

His research enables exploratory analytics over RDF knowledge graphs, with applications in marine science and cultural heritage. Recent projects include BlueCloud (EU H2020) for marine data services and 4CH for cultural heritage preservation.

Awarded six best paper/reviewer awards including ISWC'2022 and MTSR'2020. He coordinates the University of Crete's Open Data initiative and serves on ERCIM's executive committee.