Kostas Stefanidis
Scholar

Kostas Stefanidis

Google Scholar ID: Lck1uq8AAAAJ
Professor, Tampere University
Data management
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
2,162
 
H-index
24
 
i10-index
54
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
94
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published over 100 papers in top-tier conferences and journals; actively involved in numerous international and national research projects; currently serving as General Co-Chair for EDBT/ICDT 2026, ADBIS 2025, and TPDL 2025.
Research Experience
  • Over 10 years of experience in various research and academic roles at ICS-FORTH in Greece, NTNU in Norway, and CUHK in Hong Kong. Currently, serves as Director of the Data Science Research Centre and leads the Group on Recommender Systems at Tampere University.
Education
  • Earned a PhD in personalized data management from the University of Ioannina, Greece.
Background
  • Full Professor in the field of Data Science, with research interests in big data, personalization and recommender systems, data integration, data exploration, data analytics, and socio-technical aspects of data management such as fairness and transparency.
Miscellany
  • Offers master thesis topics on recommendations, fairness, entity resolution, data-driven software evolution analysis, and efficient question answering over knowledge bases.