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Dr. Ioannis (Yanni) G. Tollis is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Crete, and Researher at the Institute of Computer Science at FORTH (ICS-FORTH)

Research Interests

His research interests are in the broader area of Algorithms and Applications:

• Biomedical Informatics
• Discovery, Modeling and Visualization of Networks and Data
• Graph Drawing
• Network Visualization
• Information Visualization
• Data Analytics
• Telecommunication Networks
• Computer Aided Design
• Computational Geometry
• Algorithms and Applications

Participation in Research Projects

• VPH Noe: Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence (VPH NoE), € 806.877,77, 01/06/2008-30/11/2012 (third party through ECRIM, coordinator at FORTH)
• Contra Cancrum: Clinically Oriented Translational Cancer Multilevel Modelling, € 5.167.660, 01/08/2008-31/07/2011 
• EHR-IMPLEMENT: National policies for Implementation of Electronic Health Record (EHR) in the European area: social and oranizational issues, € 695.893,00, 01/05/2007-30/04/2010 
• ACGT: Advancing Clinico-Genomic Clinical Trials on Cancer: Open Grid Services for Improving Medical Knowledge Discovery, € 17.685.539, 01/02/2006-31/01/2010
• Rural Wings, € 14.500.000, 01/01/2006-31/12/2009 (coordinator at FORTH)
• HEARTFAID: A Knowledge based platform of services for supporting medical - clinical management of heart failure within elderly population, € 3.220.115, 01/02/2006-31/01/2009 
• D.Y.P.E. Western Greece: Integrated Health Information System for the Regional Health System of Western Greece, € 2.203.621,64, 28/12/2005-30/06/2008
• D.Y.P.E. 3rd Regional Health System of Attica: Integrated Health Information System and ICT Services for the 3rd Regional Health System of Attica, € 5.770.000, 12/10/2005-11/04/2008 
• D.Y.P.E 2nd Regional Health System of South Aegean: Integrated Health Information System for the 2nd Regional Health System of South Aegean, € 1.541.794,82, 02/05/2006-02/11/2008
• 1st Regional Health System of Attica: Integrated Health Information System and ICT Services for the 1st Regional Health System of Attica, € 3.553.003,13, 03/11/2006-02/11/2008
• Student Entrepreneurship Program II, University of Crete, € 266.000, 01/09/2005-30/09/2008 (PI)
• SYMBIOmatics: Synergies in Medical Informatics and Bioinformatics, € 670.700, 01/05/2005-30/04/2007 (coordinator at FORTH) 
• INFOBIOMED: Structuring European Biomedical Informatics to Support Individualized Healthcare FP6-2002-IST-1/European Union, € 4.85M, 01/01/2004-31/12/2006
• PROGNOCHIP: Development and Establishment of DNA Microarray Technology in Greece: Identification and Validation of Classification and Prognosis Molecular Markers for Breast Cancer, GSRT/Greece, € 587.000, 01/10/2003-31/09/2006
• Student Entrepreneurship Program, University of Crete, € 202.526,86, 01/09/2003-30/08/2005 (PI)
• "Graph Drawing and Visualization", Texas Advanced Research Program, Support period January 1998 - August 2000; $118,940.
• "Industrial Research Agreement", Compaq Computer Corp., Support period June 1999 -May 2000; $191,136. (with R. Mili)

Brief CV

Dr. Ioannis (Yanni) G. Tollis is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Crete, and the Institute of Computer Science at FORTH (ICS-FORTH), where he was the head of the Biomedical Informatics Laboratory (BMI lab.) 2005-2010. He received his Ph. D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Jan. 1988. He received his Diploma degree in Mathematics from the National University of Athens, Greece and his M. S. degree in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. He joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Dallas in December 1987, where he was a Professor of Computer Science until 2004.

He has published eight books, over 160 journal and conference papers, and has given more than 60 invited lectures worldwide. His research interests are in the Discovery, Design, Analysis, and Visualization of Networks, Modeling and Visualization of Biomedical Data and Networks, Graph Drawing, Information Visualization and Data Analytics, and Algorithms and Applications. His research has been funded by numerous funding agencies and companies. He has a U.S. patent and several of his projects have been licensed by companies for commercial distribution. He is editor-in-chief of the electronic Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications, a member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Healthcare Engineering, 2010-present, Journal of Discrete Mathematics 2012-present, and ISRN Combinatorics, 2012-present. He was a member of the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Computers (2000-2004). He was the organizer and Program Committee Chair of the 16th International Symposium on Graph Drawing 2008; he was co-organizer and Program Committee co-chair of the International Symposium on Graph Drawing, 1994; he was a member of several program committees of the International Symposium on Graph Drawing; and is a founding member of the steering committee for Graph Drawing. He has served as a member of program committees of several international conferences, most recently, the 1st Conference on the Virtual Physiological Human, 2010 (VPH 2010), HEALTHINF 2012, and HEALTHINF 2013.

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