Scholar
Nikos Bikakis
Google Scholar ID: euz_VZMAAAAJ
HMU & ATHENA Research Center, Greece
Citations & Impact
Citations
774
H-index
14
i10-index
20
Publications
20
Co-authors
20
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Conference Service: Senior PC Member for WWW 2026, ACM SIGMOD 2026, IEEE ICDE 2026, DASFAA 2026
- - New Project: M3: Multimodal Foundation Models for the Maritime Domain
- - New Preprint: Adaptive Indexing for Approximate Query Processing in Exploratory Data Analysis
- - ACM SIGMOD Blog Post: Data Exploration and Visual Analytics Challenges in AI Era, co-authored with Sihem Amer-Yahia, Leilani Battle, Yifan Hu, Dominik Moritz, Aditya Parameswaran, Nikos Bikakis, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Guoliang Li, George Papastefanatos, Lingyun Yu.
- - ACM SIGMOD Record Article 2025: Visual Analytics Challenges and Trends in the Age of AI: The BigVis Community Perspective, co-authored with Nikos Bikakis, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Guoliang Li, George Papastefanatos, Lingyun Yu.
- - Conference Service: PC Member for WWW 2025, VLDB 2025, EDBT 2025, and Senior PC Member for DASFAA 2025
- - DOLAP 2025 Paper: Counterfactual Explanations for Group Recommendations
- - Conference Service: Senior PC Member for DASFAA 2025, PC Member for WWW 2025, VLDB 2025, EDBT 2025, etc.
- - Guest Editor: Data Exploration & Visual Analytics in AI Era, Big Data Research, Elsevier
- - Organizer: BigVis @ VLDB 2024
- - ACM SIGMOD Record Article 2024: Visualizing, Exploring & Analyzing Big Data: A 6-Year Story, co-authored with N. Bikakis, G. Papastefanatos, P.K. Chrysanthis, O. Papemmanuil, D. Auber, S. Frey, I. Fujishiro, H. Hauptmann, S. Liu, K-L. Ma, T. Schreck, M. Sedlmair, M. Sharaf.
- - Organizer: 7th International Workshop on Big Data Visual Exploration & Analytics (BigVis 2024) @ VLDB 2024, Guangzhou, China, alongside Panos Chrysanthis, Guoliang Li, George Papastefanatos and Lingyun Yu.
- - VLDB Journal Paper 2024: Resource-Aware Adaptive Indexing for In-situ Visual Exploration and Analytics
- - Encyclopedia Article Invitation: Big Data Visualization Tools, Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies, 2nd ed, Springer, 2024
- - Book: Linked Data Visualization: Techniques, Tools and Big Data, Laura Po, Nikos Bikakis, Federico Desimoni & George Papastefanatos, Springer, 2020. Among the top-5 most downloaded book (in 2020) in the Data, Semantics, and Knowledge series (Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2021).
Research Experience
- - Research Engineer in industry
- - Postdoctoral Researcher at Athens University of Economics & Business
- - Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Ioannina
- - Postdoctoral Researcher at ATHENA Research Center
Education
- - Ph.D. in Computer Science from National Technical University of Athens in 2016, supervised by Prof. Timos Sellis
- - Diploma in Electronic & Computer Engineering from Technical University of Crete in 2009
Background
- - Research Interests: Human-Data Interaction, Explainable AI & Fairness, Data Structures, Personalization Systems, Spatial & Social Data, Hard Computational Problems, Web of Data
- - Professional Field: Electronic Engineering, Computer Science
- - Brief Introduction: Currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering in Hellenic Mediterranean University and a Research Associate at the ARCHIMEDES Unit and the Information Management Systems Institute of the ATHENA Research Center, Greece.
Miscellany
- - Personal Interests: Not mentioned
