Aristides Gionis

Professor at Aalto University

Aristides Gionis is a professor in the Department of Computer Science of Aalto University, leading the Data Mining Group and an ISI Foundation fellow, in Torino. In Aalto, among other duties, he is the director of the EIT Digital Data Science major, the Aalto Bachelor's Programme in Science and Technology, and the Data Science BSc major.
His research focuses on data mining and algorithmic data analysis. He's particular interested in algorithms for graphs, social-network analysis, and algorithms for web-scale data.
Before coming to Aalto he was a senior research scientist in Yahoo! Research, and previously an Academy of Finland postdoctoral scientist in the University of Helsinki. Aristides obtained his PhD from Stanford University in 2003. His PhD adviser was Rajeev Motwani. During his doctorate studies he had the pleasure to work as a summer intern in Microsoft Research, AT&T Labs, and Bell Labs Lucent Technologies.