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Dimitris Zissis

Task Force Leader/ Associate Professor
Big Data Value Association (BDVA)

Dimitris Zissis is an Associate Professor at the Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering at the University of the Aegean. His research interests and areas of expertise include several aspects of architecting and developing complex Information Systems (IS), including distributed and cloud based big data deployments. His published scientific work includes more than 70 publications (scientific journals, books and conferences included), which have received more than 3000 citations to date.

According to [1] he is included in the top 2% of scientists internationally in the field of “Information Systems”, while according to Thomson Reuters, the paper “Addressing Cloud Computing Security Issues” is included in the top 0,1% percentile of publications internationally for 2010-2014 based on the citations it has received. He is a member of the editorial boards of Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) published by Elsevier, the International Journal of Internet of Things and Cyber-Assurance published by Inderscience and PC member for numerous conferences including CLOUDCOM, GECON, SerCO and others.

Throughout these years he has participated and lead teams in numerous R&D projects funded by the EC and industry, with Horizon 2020 projects VesselAI, INFORE and BigDataOcean being the most recent ones.

Ηe is an IEEE Senior Member and a member of the IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Oceanic Engineering and the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Societies and the Young Researchers Committee of the World Federation on Soft Computing. His professional experience includes senior consulting and researcher positions in a number of private and public institutions.