Vassilios S. Verykios
Vice Rector of Student Welfare at the Hellenic Open University (HOU)
Vassilios S. Verykios is Vice Rector of Student Welfare at the Hellenic Open University (HOU) and Professor of Data Management at its School of Science and Technology, ranked among the top 2% of scientists globally (Elsevier) and among leading Greek computer scientists (Research.com). He holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from Purdue University and a degree from the University of Patras, and has held academic positions at Drexel University and the University of Thessaly before joining HOU, where he now serves as Professor, postgraduate program director, and founder/director of the Big Data Analytics and Anonymization Lab. With extensive administrative and research experience, he has contributed to numerous international projects, published over 250 scientific papers with more than 13,000 citations, and actively participates in major conference committees (e.g., SIGMOD, VLDB, KDD) and editorial roles in high-impact journals. His research focuses on artificial intelligence, data science, data management, privacy and security, knowledge discovery, and software systems.