Research Awards

– Best Paper Award: paper “A Data-driven Approach for Spatio-Temporal Crime Predictions in Smart Cities”,  4th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, 2018. (photo 1, photo 2)

– Best Paper Award: paper “Balancing Speedup and Accuracy in Smart City Parallel Applications”, 4th Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments on Clouds and P2P held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2016, 2016. (photo)

– Best Paper Award Nomination: paper “Towards a cloud-based framework for urban computing. The trajectory analysis case”, 3rd International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, 2013.

International Recognition

– ACM Distinguished Speaker: nominated ACM Distinguished Speaker, in the areas of machine learning, data mining, data science, 2023-2026. (link)

Research Impact and Recognition

– World’s Top 2% Scientists:  included in the Stanford/Elsevier ranking of the world’s most cited scientists, field: ICT – Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing, 2026. (photo)