The h-index for Greek origin Computer Scientists & Engineers

This page started with the following question: how many of the top x (ranked by Google Scholar h-index) Computer Science and Engineering (CS&E) researchers of Greek origin are based in Greece and how many abroad?
The answer is given by the following graph for the top x CS&E researchers of Greek origin, where x stops at 225 (matching researchers with an h-index ≥ 25). In brief, 41.77% of the top 225 CS&E researchers are based in Greece but the distribution is not uniform: only 22% of the top 50 researchers are based in Greece.

The graph is based on a partial list of CS&E researchers of Greek origin, each with an h-index of 25 or higher. The list is given below but it is bound to be incomplete. If you know of people who are not listed but still have a Google Scholar profile and satisfy the criteria, please let me know. It is interesting that there are 78 CS&E researchers of Greek origin with an h-index of at least 40, when this page lists about 1900 CS&E researchers worldwide with an h-index of at least 40. This makes Greek origin CS&E researchers about 4% of the top CS&E researchers worldwide, when the population of Greece/Cyprus is less than 0.2% of the world population.

Finally: the list is for information only and I bear no responsibility whatsoever for its use; the reader bears all responsibility for its use.

Relevant links:
The h-index for Computer Science
Top h-index for Computer Science and Electronics

page automatically generated on Thu Sep 28 18:15:50 2017


1. Georgios B. Giannakis 127 (62195), Endowed Chair Prof., Dept. of ECE and DTC, University of Minnesota
2. Christos H PAPADIMITRIOU 120 (71637), UC Berkeley
3. Christos Faloutsos 115 (69597), CMU
4. Leonidas Guibas 108 (46849), Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
5. Mihalis Yannakakis 89 (30199), Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
6. Dimitri Bertsekas 88 (83641), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
7. John Mylopoulos 86 (36173), University of Ottawa
8. George Karypis 84 (56338), Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota
9. ATHANASIOS VASILAKOS 81 (20611), Professor of NETWORKS, PMU
10. Demetri Terzopoulos 79 (56308), Distinguished Professor & Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science, UCLA
11. John Tsitsiklis 78 (42761), Professor of Electrical Engineering, MIT
12. Dimitris N. Metaxas 78 (24633), Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Rutgers University
13. I. Pitas 77 (25955), Professor, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece.
14. Dimitrios Gunopulos 67 (19604), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
15. Leandros Tassiulas 66 (23140), Professor of Electrical Engineering, Yale University
16. Lydia E. Kavraki 65 (21821), Rice University
17. Dimitris Papadias 64 (16430), Professor of Computer Science, HKUST
18. Angelos D. Keromytis 64 (16201), Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
19. Christos Kozyrakis 64 (15019), Stanford University
20. Nikos Paragios 63 (19291), Professor, CentraleSupelec (Ecole Centrale Paris) / Université Paris-Saclay / Inria
21. Anastasios Venetsanopoulos 62 (19576), Unknown affiliation Ryerson University and the University of Toronto
22. Nick Koudas 60 (15136), Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto
23. Minos Garofalakis 60 (12095), Director, IMIS, Athena Research and Innovation Centre & Professor, Technical University of Crete
24. Joseph Sifakis 59 (17301), Reseracher at Verimag laboratory, Grenoble
25. Petros Koumoutsakos 59 (15304), Professorship for Computing Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
26. Michalis Faloutsos 58 (19120), U. C. Riverside
27. Yannis Ioannidis 56 (12747), Professor of Informatics & Telecom, Univ. of Athens, and General Director, ATHENA Research Center
28. Marios Polycarpou 55 (14210), Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, KIOS Research Center, University of Cyprus
29. Timos Sellis 54 (13662), Professor and Institute Director, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
30. George K. Karagiannidis 54 (10088), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
31. Petros Maragos 53 (13692), Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens
32. Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos 53 (11275), Professor of Computer Science, University of Minnesota
33. Michael N. Vrahatis 52 (13378), Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Patras, Greece
34. Michael G. Strintzis 52 (10406), Center for Research and Technology Hellas
35. Yannis Manolopoulos 51 (12068), Professor, Dept of Informatics, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
36. Stergios I. Roumeliotis 51 (9530), Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. of Minnesota
37. Michael Papazoglou 50 (16241), Professor & Executive Director European Research Institute in Service Science (ERISS), University of
38. Anastasia Ailamaki 50 (9565), Professor of Computer and Communication Sciences. EPFL
39. Constantine Dovrolis 49 (11813), Professor of Computer Science, Georgia Tech
40. Yannis Papakonstantinou 48 (14205), UCSD
41. Nikos Mamoulis 48 (9245), Professor of Computer Science, University of Hong Kong
42. Panagiotis Tsiotras 47 (8646), Georgia Institute of Technology
43. Aristides Gionis 46 (13034), Aalto University
44. Spyros G.Tzafestas 46 (10592), Professor em.of School of EC Engineering,National Technical University of
45. Yannis Theodoridis 46 (9826), Professor of Data Science, University of Piraeus, Greece
46. Kostas Daniilidis 46 (8876), Ruth Yalom Stone Professor of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
47. Evangelos Kranakis 46 (8843), Chancellor's Professor, School of Computer Science, Carleton University
48. Evangelos Milios 45 (10220), Professor of Computer Science, Dalhousie University
49. Konstantina Papagiannaki 45 (9685), Telefonica Research, ACM Distinguished Scientist
50. George N. Rouskas 45 (7908), Professor of Computer Science, North Carolina State University
51. Phokion Kolaitis 45 (7669), Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, UC Santa Cruz and Research Staff Member, IBM Research
52. Stavros Tripakis 45 (6708), Full Professor, Aalto University, and Adjunct Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
53. Vassilis J. Tsotras 44 (6555), Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside
54. Dimitris A. Gritzalis 44 (5469), Professor of Computer Science, Athens University of Economics & Business
55. Diomidis Spinellis 43 (7498), Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business
56. Aristidis Likas 43 (6753), Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Ioannina, Greece
57. Panos Papadimitratos 42 (10650), KTH (Royal Institute of Technology)
58. Alexandros G Dimakis 42 (8963), Associate Professor, ECE University of Texas at Austin
59. Stefanos Kollias 42 (8685), Professor of Computer and Electricall Engineering National Technical University of Athens
60. George Kollios 42 (8000), Professor of Computer Science, Boston University
61. Andreas Terzis 42 (7383), Google
62. Evangelos Markatos 42 (6511), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas
63. Georgios N. Yannakakis 42 (6160), Associate Professor, Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta
64. George Drettakis 42 (5786), Inria Sophia-Antipolis/GRAPHDECO
65. Costas Courcoubetis 41 (13521), Professor of Computer Science, Athens University of Economics and Business
66. Michalis Vazirgiannis 41 (11680), Professor
67. Ioannis Vlahavas 41 (8364), Professor of Computer Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
68. Ioannis Tomkos (ORCID:0000-0001-9721-3405) 41 (7210), Fellow of OSA, Fellow of IET - Athens Information Technology Center (AIT) - Greece
69. Christina Fragouli 41 (7188), UCLA
70. George Pavlou 41 (6905), University College London
71. Constantinos B. Papadias 40 (7679), Dean, Athens Information Technology, IEEE Fellow
72. Paul Spirakis 40 (7619), Professor of Computer Science , University of Liverpool
73. Nikos Vlassis 40 (7372), Sr Data Scientist, Netflix
74. Ioannis (Yiannis) Kompatsiaris 40 (7172), Senior Researcher, Information Technologies Institute, CERTH
75. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris 40 (6722), Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor of Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Eng
76. Constantinos S. Pattichis 40 (6596), Professor of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
77. Panos Vassiliadis 40 (6257), Dept. of Comp. Science, Univ. of Ioannina
78. Eleni Stroulia 40 (5832), Professor of Computing Science, University of Alberta
79. Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis 39 (13211), New York Univesity
80. Paris C. Kanellakis 1953-1995 39 (12786), Professor of Computer Science, Brown University
81. Grigoris Antoniou 39 (9480), Professor, Semantic & Knowledge Technologies, University of Huddersfield
82. Dimitris Achlioptas 39 (7280), Professor of Computer Science, UC Santa Cruz
83. Petros Drineas 39 (6842), Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Purdue University
84. Constantine Kotropoulos 39 (5906), Professor, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
85. Evaggelia Pitoura 38 (5856), University of Ioannina, Greece
86. Prof. Stefanos Gritzalis 38 (4647), Dept. of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, Greece
87. Constantine Stephanidis 37 (5955), Institute of Computer Science - FORTH
88. Dimitris Plexousakis 37 (5758), Computer Science
89. Yannis Smaragdakis 37 (5584), University of Athens
90. Athina Markopoulou 37 (5579), Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine
91. Vassilis Christophides 37 (5521), Univ of Crete
92. Manolis Koubarakis 37 (5230), Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
93. Yannis Dimitriadis 37 (5161), Professor, University of Valladolid
94. Basilis G. Gatos 37 (5054), Senior Researcher, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Institute of Informatics
95. Ioannis Pratikakis 37 (4945), Associate Professor, DUTH - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Xanthi, Greece
96. Konstantinos Tarabanis 37 (4776), Καθηγητής Πληροφοριακών Συστημάτων
97. Dimitris Samaras 37 (4339), Stony Brook University
98. Petros Maniatis 36 (6344), Staff Research Scientist, Google
99. Panos Kalnis 36 (6273), Professor of Computer Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
100. Dimitrios M. Thilikos (Δημήτριος Μ. Θηλυκός) 36 (4708), Department of Mathematics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
101. Panos Markopoulos 36 (4698), Eindhoven University of Technology
102. Rizos Sakellariou 36 (4443), University of Manchester (School of Computer Science)
103. Alkis Simitsis 36 (4083), Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto
104. Dimitrios Georgakopoulos 35 (11342), Swinburne University of Technology
105. Yannis Labrou 35 (9789), Verisign Inc.
106. Grigorios Tsoumakas 35 (7655), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
107. Vassilis Athitsos 35 (5758), Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Texas at Arlington
108. Panos K. Chrysanthis 35 (5650), Professor of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh
109. Antonis Kakas 35 (5365), University of Cyprus
110. George Kesidis 35 (5222), Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University; Professor of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania
111. Marios Savvides 35 (4538), Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
112. Yannis Avrithis 35 (4017), Inria Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique, France
113. Kostas Kontogiannis 35 (4004), Professor, and Research Chair, Western University
114. George D. Magoulas 34 (5116), Professor of Computer Science, University of London, Birkbeck College
115. Anthony Tzes 34 (4416), Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece
116. Evgenia Smirni 34 (3844), Professor of Computer Science, College of William and Mary
117. Sotiris Nikoletseas 34 (3835), University of Patras and CTI
118. Neoklis Polyzotis 34 (3634), Google Inc.
119. Andreas Pitsillides 34 (3597), Professor of Computer Science
120. Kostas Anagnostakis 34 (3593), Niometrics
121. Konstantinos Parsopoulos 33 (8324), Associate Professor, University of Ioannina, Greece
122. Marios Kountouris 33 (6250), Principal Research Scientist - Huawei Technologies
123. Spiros Papadimitriou 33 (5870), Rutgers University
124. Georgios Paliouras 33 (5589), National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens, Greece
125. Pericles Loucopoulos 33 (4216), Professor at University of Manchester
126. Emmanouel (Manos) Varvarigos 33 (4208), Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens
127. Anastasios Tefas 33 (3878), Associate Professor, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
128. Nikolaos Avouris 33 (3810), Professor, University of Patras
129. Vana Kalogeraki 32 (5678), Associate Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business, AUEB
130. Antonis Argyros 32 (5363), Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Crete, Greece and ICS-FORTH
131. Elpiniki Papageorgiou 32 (3961), Ass. Professor in Computer Science, Technological Educational Institute of Central Greece, Lamia
132. Gregoris Mentzas 32 (3731), National Technical University of Athens, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Greece
133. Sophia Drossopoulou 32 (3564), Professor, Imperial College London
134. Constantinos Daskalakis 32 (3548), Associate Professor of Computer Science, MIT
135. Miltiadis Lytras 32 (3437), The American College of Greece, Deree College
136. Vagelis Hristidis (aka Evangelos Christidis) 31 (6282), Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of California - Riverside
137. Nikos Fakotakis 31 (4385), Καθηγητής Ηλεκτρολόγων και Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών, Πανεπιστήμιο
138. Peter P. Groumpos 31 (4075), University of Patras
139. Chrysostomos Stylios 31 (4000), Technological Educational Institute of Epirus
140. Ilias Maglogiannis 31 (3574), Associate Professor Dept. of Digital Systems University of Piraeus
141. Lefteris (Eleftherios) Angelis 31 (3487), Professor of Statistics and Information Systems, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
142. PETER TRIANTAFILLOU 31 (3020), Professor, Chair of Data Systems, Computer Science, University of Warwick
143. Ioannis Chatzigiannakis 31 (2855), Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome.
144. Petros Faloutsos 30 (9742), York University
145. Thomas Karagiannis 30 (8086), Researcher, Microsoft Research
146. Christos Gkantsidis 30 (6018), Research, Microsoft Research
147. Nikos Nikolaidis 30 (4887), Associate Professor, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
148. Nikos Komodakis 30 (4862), Associate Professor, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech (France)
149. Yannis Kotidis 30 (4802), Athens University of Economics and Business
150. Ioannis Patras 30 (4275), Associate Professor, Queen Mary, University of London
151. Palpanas 30 (3780), Unknown affiliation
152. Takis Mathiopoulos 30 (3418), Professor of Digital Telecommunications, University of
153. Michalis Polychronakis 30 (3219), Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University
154. Kostas Karpouzis 30 (3202), Research director, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, National Technical University
155. Angelos Stavrou 30 (3144), George Mason University
156. Theodoros Evgeniou 29 (7141), INSEAD
157. Athena Vakali 29 (4954), Professor of Computer Science, Aristotle University
158. Stefanos Sidiropoulos 29 (4628), .
159. Foto Afrati 29 (4413), Professor of Computer Science, National Technical University of Athens
160. Giorgos Stamou 29 (3703), Assistant Professor of Computer Science, National Technical University of Athens
161. Vangelis Karkaletsis 29 (3660), NCSR "Demokritos"
162. Iasonas Kokkinos 29 (3415), Facebook AI Research and University College London
163. George Spanoudakis 29 (3355), Professor of Software Engineering, City University London
164. Theoharis Theoharis 29 (3341), NTNU, Norway | U. Athens, Greece
165. Philippas Tsigas 29 (3054), Professor of Computer Science, Chalmers University of Technology
166. Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos 29 (3010), Professor and Head of School of EEECS, Queen's University of Belfast
167. Nikos Chrisochoides 29 (2612), Richard T. Cheng Distinguished Professor, Computer Science, Old Dominion University
168. Anthony Savidis 29 (2268), Professor of Computer Science, University of Crete
169. Elias Koutsoupias 28 (6074), University of Oxford
170. Panos Trahanias 28 (4089), Professor of Computer Sience, University of Crete and FORTH
171. George Samaras 28 (3775), Professor of Computer Science, University of Cyprus
172. Sotiris Ioannidis 28 (3340), Research Director, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas
173. Spyros Reveliotis 28 (3337), ISyE, Georgia Tech
174. Kostas Bekris 28 (3185), Computer Science, Rutgers University
175. Nikos Papamarkos 28 (3105), Democritus University of Thrace Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratory of
176. Manolis G.H. Katevenis 28 (2989), FORTH and University of Crete, Greece
177. Nick Bassiliades 28 (2766), Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
178. Odysseas Koufopavlou 28 (2646), Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras
179. Anastasios Mourikis 28 (2616), Electrical Engineering, University of California, Riverside
180. Dimitris Gizopoulos 28 (2553), University of Athens
181. Ioannis Caragiannis 28 (1950), University of Patras
182. Vassilios Verykios 27 (6853), Hellenic Open University, GREECE
183. Dimitrios Katsaros 27 (3908), Assistant Professor, University of Thessaly
184. Marios D. Dikaiakos 27 (3596), Professor of Computer Science, University of Cyprus
185. Christos Bouras, Professor, University of Patras, GREECE 27 (3361), CTI&P-Diophantus, GREECE
186. Anastasios Kementsietsidis 27 (3350), Google Research
187. Panagiotis Demestichas 27 (3237), University of Piraeus
188. Stelios Sidiroglou-Douskos 27 (3173), Research Scientist at MIT CSAIL
189. Athanasios K. Tsakalidis 27 (2980), Professor at Graphics, Multimedia and GIS Laboratory, Computer Engineering and Informatics
190. Konstantinos Sagonas 27 (2860), Uppsala University and National Technical University of Athens (on leave)
191. Vassilis Plagianakos 27 (2608), Associate Professor & Department Head, Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics
192. Nectaria Tryfona 27 (2498), George Mason University
193. Stratos Idreos 27 (2364), Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
194. Viktor Vafeiadis 27 (2312), Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Saarland Informatics Campus (SIC)
195. Sotiris Malassiotis 27 (2268), Center for Research and Technology Hellas
196. Dimitri Konstantas 27 (2248), Professor of Information Systemes, University of Geneva
197. Antonis Paschalis 27 (2008), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
198. Christos Papadopoulos 26 (5033), Professor of Computer Science, Colorado State University
199. Constantine D. Spyropoulos 26 (4442), NCSR 'Demokritos'
200. Manolis Lourakis 26 (3771), Researcher, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4596-5773
201. Georgia Koutrika 26 (3393), Athena Research Center
202. Nectarios Koziris 26 (3329), Professor, Dean of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University
203. Vasileios Mezaris 26 (2964), CERTH-ITI
204. Nikos Karacapilidis 26 (2842), Professor of Information Systems, University of Patras, Greece
205. Haralambos Mouratidis 26 (2663), Professor of Software Systems Engineering, University of Brighton
206. Apostolos N. Papadopoulos 26 (2564), Associate Professor, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
207. Marios Mavronicolas 26 (2350), Professor of Computer Science, University of Cyprus
208. Niki Trigoni 26 (2226), University of Oxford
209. Georgios Kambourakis 26 (2035), Associate Professor, Dept. of Information and Communication Systems Eng., University of the Aegean
210. Sotiris Kotsiantis 25 (6131), Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, University of Patras, Greece
211. Alexandros Labrinidis 25 (3430), Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh
212. Evimaria Terzi 25 (3373), Associate Professor of Computer Science, Boston University
213. Kostas Pentikousis 25 (3263), Travelping
214. Yiorgos Chrysanthou 25 (3200), University of Cyprus
215. Damianos Gavalas 25 (2911), Associate Professor, University of the Aegean
216. Anastasios Doulamis 25 (2799), National Technical University of Athens
217. Giorgos Stoilos 25 (2654), Athens University of Economics and Business
218. Christos Zaroliagis 25 (2248), Professor of Algorithm Design, Analysis and Engineering, University of Patras
219. Diomidis S. Michalopoulos 25 (2153), Nokia Bell Labs
220. Efthimios Tambouris 25 (2145), University of Macedonia
221. Vassilios Peristeras 25 (2057), International Hellenic University
222. Konstantinos Chorianopoulos 25 (1910), Ionian University
223. Kleanthis Thramboulidis 25 (1894), Professor of Software Engineering, University of Patras
224. Panos Constantopoulos 25 (1680), Professor of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business
225. Apostolos Antonacopoulos 25 (1606), Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (PRImA) Lab, University of Salford