Evangelos Christidis

Evangelos (Vagelis) Christidis is a Computer Science Professor at UCR, with expertise on text and big data analytics. He has built large systems has presented his work in dozens of conferences around the world. His work on indexing, searching and exploring complex data has received more than 7,000 citations according to Google Scholar. His key achievements include the National Science Foundation CAREER award, a Google Research Award, an IBM Scalable Data Analytics for A Smarter Planet Innovation Award, the Kauffmann Entrepreneurship Award, and a Samsung GRO award. His work has been featured by mainstream media like The New York Times, Forbes and Yahoo!. He maintains a blog on healthcare chatbots.