Dr. Vazirgiannis is a Professor at LIX, Ecole Polytechnique in France and leads the Data Science and Mining group (DaSciM).

He holds a degree in Physics and a PhD in Informatics from Athens University(Greece) and a Master degree in AI from Heriot Watt University,Edinburgh (UK). He has conducted research in Frauhofer, Max Planck MPI (Germany), in INRIA/FUTURS (Paris). He has been teaching in AUEB (Greece), Ecole Polytechnique, Telecom-Paristech, ENS (France), Tsinghua, Jiaotong Shanghai (China) and in Deusto University (Spain). His current research interests are on machine/deep learning and combinatorial methods for Graph analysis (including community detection, graph clustering, node embeddings and influence maximization), Text mining (including Graph of Words, word embeddings with applications to web advertising and marketing, event detection and summarization). He has active cooperation with industrial partners in the area of analytics and machine learning for large scale data repositories in different application domains (including recommendations, meeting summarizatiom, influence metrics for scientific and social networks, predictive maintenance and others). He has supervised fifteen completed PhD theses. He has published three books and more than a 160 papers in international refereed journals and conferences. He has organized large scale conferences in the area of Data Mining and Machine Learning (such as ECML/PKDD) while he participates in the senior PCs of AI and ML conferences – such as AAAI and IJCAI, He has received the ERCIM and the Marie Curie EU fellowships, the Tencent “Rhino-Bird International Academic Expert Award” in 2017 and since 2015 he leads the AXA Data Science chair.