About
Thanassis Tiropanis is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton and Head of the DAta, Intelligence and Society (DAIS) Research Group in the School of Electronics and Computer Science.
His research focuses on sovereign, trustworthy and decentralised data and AI infrastructures. Particular interests include privacy-preserving information retrieval, decentralised AI systems, and governance and socio-technical approaches to accountability and transparency in data access and processing. A central theme of his work is how individuals and organisations can retain control over their data through decentralised architectures, with applications spanning health, IoT and digital society.
This research draws on expertise developed over more than 25 years, spanning networked and distributed information infrastructures, linked data and semantic technologies, Web Science, and the evolution and impact of the Web and the Internet as socio-technical systems. He has led the development of data-sharing infrastructures and Web observatories.
He has held academic and research appointments at University College London, Athens Information Technology (AIT) and the University of Southampton, and was Visiting Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore from 2017 to 2019.
He is a Fellow and Chartered IT Professional of the British Computer Society (FBCS CITP), a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SMIEEE), a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Technical Chamber of Greece.