FULL LIST OF AWARDS INCLUDED [HERE]

SELECTED AWARDS, DISTINCTIONS, GRANTS:

EPSRC AI Hub

Co-investigator on EPSRC ‘Mathematical and Computational Foundations of Artificial Intelligence’ grant
Foundation of the ‘INFORMED-AI’ Hub based at the University of Bristol

Project title: Information Theory for Distributed AI

Award amount: ~GBP 9m; 20024-2029

IMS Fellow

Named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2023

“For outstanding contributions to fundamental problems in information theory; and for consistent and

important contributions in developing the deep connections of information theory with probability and

statistics”

AAIA Fellow

Elected Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association in 2022

IEEE Fellow

Elevated to the grade of Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers in 2011

“For contributions to data compression”

European Community Grants

FP7: Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship (IOF)

Project title: Control Variates for Markov Chain Monte Carlo Variance Reduction

Award amount: ~Euro 200,000; 2009-2011

HFRI Grant

Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation research grant

Project title: From Microscopic Interactions to Macroscopic Phenomena

Award amount: ~Euro 200,000; 2020-2014

Thales Grants

Participant in three and principal investigator in one of the programs under the Operational Program Education and Lifelong Learning of the National Strategic Reference Framework through the Research Funding Program Thales-Investing in Knowledge Society through the European Social Fund

i. CROWN: Optimal Control of Self-Organized Wireless Networks

ii. DISCO: Distributed Wireless Communications

iii. SWINCOM: Secure Wireless Non-Linear Communications at the Physical Layer

Duration of projects: 2012-2015

Total amount awarded: ~Euro 1,800,000

AUEB Grants

Athens University of Economics & Business "Basic Research" (PEVE) grant

Project title: Simulation, Computational Learning and Hypothesis Testing

Award amount: ~Euro 10,000; 2009-2010

Honorary Master of Arts Degree, Ad Eundem

Awarder by Brown University, May 2005

Sloan Research Fellowship

Awarded February 2004

Manning Assistant Professorship

Endowed Assistant professorship, Brown University.

Awarded October 2002

NSF

Project title: Efficient Lossy Data Compression Via Statistical Model Selection

NSF grant # 0073378-CCR

PI: Ioannis Kontoyiannis

USDA

Project title: Development of Statistical Methodology for Agricultural Genomics

USDA-IFAFS grant # 00-52100-9615

PI: Rebecca W. Doerge; Co-PIs: Ioannis Kontoyiannis, Lauren M. McIntyre

Teaching Award

Teaching for Tomorrow Award, received Spring 2000

Annual Purdue University teaching award, which recognizes "faculty members for their commitment to and accomplishments in teaching and student learning."