Ioannis Kontoyiannis (born January 1972) is a Greek mathematician and information theorist. He is the

Churchill Professor of Mathematics of Information The Churchill Professorship of Mathematics of Information (known until November 2022 as the Churchill Professorship of Mathematics for Operational Research) is a professorship in the mathematics of information at the University of Cambridge. It was ...

with the Statistical Laboratory, in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, of the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

. He is also a Fellow of

Darwin College, Cambridge Darwin College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded on 28 July 1964, Darwin was Cambridge University's first graduate-only college, and also the first to admit both men and wo ...

, and Chairman of the Rollo Davidson Trust. He is an affiliated member of the Division of Information Engineering, Cambridge, a Research Fellow of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, and a Senior Member of

Robinson College, Cambridge Robinson College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1977, it is one of the newest Oxbridge colleges and is unique in having been intended, from its inception, for both ...

. His research interests are in information theory,

probability Probability is a branch of mathematics and statistics concerning events and numerical descriptions of how likely they are to occur. The probability of an event is a number between 0 and 1; the larger the probability, the more likely an e ...

and

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ...

, including their applications in data compression, bioinformatics,

neuroscience Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions, and its disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, ...

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...

, and the connections between core information-theoretic ideas and results in probability theory and

additive combinatorics Additive combinatorics is an area of combinatorics in mathematics. One major area of study in additive combinatorics are ''inverse problems'': given the size of the sumset is small, what can we say about the structures of and ? In the case of th ...

Academic biography

Kontoyiannis earned a B.S. in mathematics from Imperial College, University of London (1992), he obtained a distinction in Part III of the Cambridge University Pure Mathematics Tripos (1993), and he earned an M.S. in statistics (1997) and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering (1998), both from

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

. Between 1998 and 2018 he taught at

Purdue University Purdue University is a Public university#United States, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded ...

Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

, and at the

Athens University of Economics and Business Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB; , ''Oikonomiko Panepistimio Athinon'', abbrev. ΟΠΑ, OPA) is a public university based in Athens, Greece, specializing in the fields of Economics, Business Administration, and Information Tech ...

. In January 2018 he joined the Information Engineering Division at Cambridge University, as Professor of Information and Communications, and Head of the Signal Processing and Communications Laboratory. Since June 2020 he has been with th
Statistical Laboratory
in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics,

, where he holds the Churchill Chair in Mathematics.

Awards and honors

* Manning endowed assistant professorship (2002) * Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship (2004) * Honorary Master of Arts Degree ''Ad Eundem'', Brown University (2005) * Marie Curie Fellowship (2009) *

IEEE Fellow , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and ot ...

(2011)
AAIA Fellow
(2022)
IMS Fellow
(2023)
AIIA Fellow
(2024)

References

External links

*Ioannis Kontoyiannis
web page
at Cambridge * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kontoyiannis, Ioannis 1972 births Living people Information theorists Fellows of Darwin College, Cambridge Alumni of Imperial College London Greek expatriates in the United Kingdom Stanford University alumni Greek expatriates in the United States Purdue University faculty Brown University faculty Columbia University faculty Sloan Research Fellows Fellows of the IEEE 20th-century Greek mathematicians 21st-century Greek mathematicians Engineering professors at the University of Cambridge