Scholar
Ioannis Kontoyiannis
Google Scholar ID: K7lsKjcAAAAJ
University of Cambridge
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,596
H-index
20
i10-index
41
Publications
20
Co-authors
62
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the European Union, Greek national funds, the European Research Council, and numerous other national and international bodies. He has also engaged in consulting work for companies in the financial, medical, and high-tech industries.
Research Experience
- In 1995, he worked at IBM Research on a NASA-IBM satellite image processing and compression project. From 1998 to 2001, he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University.
Education
- He received his B.Sc. degree in mathematics from Imperial College (University of London) in 1992, and a distinction in Part III of the Cambridge University Pure Mathematics Tripos in 1993. In 1997, he obtained an M.S. in statistics, followed by a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1998, both from Stanford University.
Background
- His research interests lie in information theory, applied probability, and statistics, with applications to neuroscience, bioinformatics, and the development of machine learning algorithms. He is currently the Churchill Professor of Mathematics of Information at DPMMS, University of Cambridge.
Miscellany
- Born in Athens, Greece, in 1972.
