Honours & Awards

Among the 2% of the top scientists in the world for year 2021

I was included in the 2% of the world’s top scientists according to the citations

that their research work received in the year 2021

https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw

Among the 2% of the top scientists in the world for year 2020

I was included in the 2% of the world’s top scientists according to the citations

that their research work received in the year 2020

Source: Baas, J.; Boyack, K.; Ioannidis, J. (2021), August 2021 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”, Mendeley Data, V3, doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.3

https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3

Among the 2% of the top scientists in the world for year 2019

I was included in the 2% of the world’s top scientists according to the citations

that their research work received in the year 2019

Source: Ioannidis J., Boyack K., Baas J (2020) Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators. PLoS Biol 18(10): https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918

Three of my books made it to the 82 Best Recommender System Books of All Times

BookAuthority collects and ranks the best books in the world.

https://bookauthority.org/books/best-recommender-system-books

Most Influential Scholar Award (2007~2017)

I was recognized from AMiner among the Most Influential Researchers of the last decade to the field of Recommender Systems https://www.aminer.cn/ai10/recommendation

Italian Habilitation 2017

Panagiotis Symeonidis got the Italian Habilitation Certificate in 2017, which makes him eligible to apply for any tenure track professorship position (in the level of Associate Professor) in Italy for the research domain 01/B1 informatics.

Greek State Scholarship 2013                     

4-month scholarship from the Greek Scholarship Foundation (IKY) for post-doctoral research in Magdeburg University with subject “Recommender Systems in multi-dimensional Social Networks”

German State Scholarship 2012

4-month scholarship from the German Scholarship Foundation (DAAD) for post-doctoral research in Magdeburg University entitled “Recommender Systems in time-evolving Social Networks”

Aristotle University Scholarship 2010              

1-year scholarship to perform research at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Greek State Scholarship  2005 

3-year scholarship for Ph.D. studies from the Greek Scholarship Foundation (IKY)

Innovative Business Plan Award 2008  

Award for an Innovative Business Plan by the “Innovative Ideas Contest” of the Region of Central Macedonia, Greece for the research proposal “IPTVExplain: Providing Explained Recommendations for Digital Content”