About
Thanassis Tiropanis is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, where he leads the DAta, Intelligence and Society (DAIS) research group in the school of Electronics and Computer Science. His work focuses on sovereign, trustworthy and decentralised AI and information infrastructures, including privacy-preserving information retrieval, distributed AI systems, data observatories and socio-technical approaches to accountability and transparency in datasets and AI systems. His work explores how individuals and organisations can retain control over access to and processing of their data through decentralised architectures, with applications spanning health, IoT and digital society.
His work combines expertise in decentralised data architectures, distributed linked data infrastructures, semantic technologies and the evolution and impact of the Web and the Internet as socio-technical systems. He has over 25 years of research and teaching experience through appointments at University College London, the Athens Information Technology institute and the University of Southampton, and was Visiting Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore (2017–2019).
He is a Fellow and Chartered IT Professional of the British Computer Society (FBCS CITP), Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SIEEE), Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), member of the Association for Computing Machinery and member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.