Short Bio of Ioannis (or Yiannis) Kontoyiannis

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory
"Data, Physics, and Life Through the Lens of Information Theory.
Special Issue Dedicated to the Memory of Toby Berger"

IEEE INFORMATION THEORY [SOCIETY]

External Nominations Committee, member (2021-2023)

T.M. Cover Dissertation Award Committee, member (2016-2017)

Board of Governors, member (2013, 2024-2027)

Information Theory Society Awards Committee, member (2009-2011)

CONFERENCE PROGRAM CO-CHAIR

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2024)

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2016)

IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW 2009)

IEEE Workshop on Information Theoretic Methods in Science and Engineering (WITMSE 2008, 2009, 2010)

CONFERENCE STEERING COMMITTEE

Beyond IID (2020-present)

IEEE European School on Information Theory (2023)

SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Control, Dynamics, and Learning: Theory, Computation, and Applications.

Isaac Institute Programme

CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023)

IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2023, 2024)

International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (2023)

Conference on Systems, Communications and Coding (2023)

IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024)

Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020)

International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2009)

Communication Theory Symposium (CTS) of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2009)

International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (ValueTools 2006, 2007, 2008)

Information Theory and Statistical Learning Conference (ITSL 2008)

CONFERENCE ORGANIZER or GENERAL CHAIR

London Symposium on Information Theory (2025)

Cambridge Information Theory Colloquium (2025)

Athens Probability Colloquium (2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024)

4^th Workshop on Stochastic Methods in Finance and Physics (2023)

IEEE European School of Information Theory (2023)

AIM Entropy Power Inequalities Workshop (2017)

Greek Stochastics (2009, 2010)

Athens Workshop on MCMC Convergence and Estimation (2009)

Purdue Mini-Symposium on Analytic Information Theory (1999)

ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

Current

Chair of Board of Trustees (2022 – present): Rollo Davidson Trust, Statistical Laboratory, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge, (UK)

Whittle Fund Manager (2020 – present): Peter Whittle Fund, Statistical Laboratory, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge, (UK)

Board of Trustees (2020 – 2022): Rollo Davidson Trust, Statistical Laboratory, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge, (UK)

Associate Member (2020 – present): Signal Processing & Communications Group, Information Engineering Division, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge (UK)

Senior member (2019 – present): Robinson College, University of Cambridge (UK)

Research Fellow (2017 – present): Institute of Applied & Computational Mathematics, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) (Greece)

Past

Professor (2018 – 2020): Chair of Information & Communications, Signal Processing and Communications Group, Information Engineering Division, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge (UK)

Head of Laboratory (2018 – 2020): Signal Processing and Communications, Information Engineering Division, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge (UK)

Professor (2005 – 2021): Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics & Business (Greece)

Laboratory Director (2013 – 2018): Theory, Economics and Systems, Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics & Business (Greece)

Senior member (2017 – 2019): Darwin College, University of Cambridge (UK)

Science consultant (2016): Statistical analysis of financial data, Posimark Associates S.L. (Spain)

Science consultant (2014): Statistical analysis of Big Data, Caspida (USA)

Visiting Associate Professor (2009): Department of Statistics, Columbia University (USA)

Associate Professor (2001 – 2005): Division of Applied Mathematics and (jointly) Department of Computer Science, Brown University (USA)

Visiting Assistant Professor (2000 - 2001): Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University (USA)

Assistant Professor (1998 - 2001): Department of Statistics and (by courtesy) Department of Mathematics and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University (USA)

Researcher (1995): NASA-IBM Satellite image analysis and compression, IBM Research (USA)

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (06/98): Electrical Engineering Department, Stanford University

Ph.D. genealogy, compiled, in part, by Vince Poor

M.S. in Statistics (06/97): Statistics Department, Stanford University

M.S. in Pure Mathematics (06/93): Distinction in Part III of the Pure Math Tripos, DPMMS, Cambridge University [Darwin College]

B.S. in Mathematics (06/92) Mathematics Department, Imperial College, University of London