Gems of PODS
Andreas Pieris
University of Cyprus · University of Edinburgh
Bio: Andreas Pieris is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus and at the School of Informatics of the University of Edinburgh. Prior to this, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Cyprus and the University of Edinburgh, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Vienna University of Technology, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford. He earned a D.Phil. in Computer Science from the University of Oxford in 2011. His research interests are database theory with emphasis on knowledge-enriched and uncertain data, knowledge representation and reasoning, and logic in computer science. He has published numerous papers, most of them in leading international conferences and journals. He is the recipient of the Ray Reiter Best Paper Award at the 22nd International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2025). He has served on the program committees of international conferences and workshops, including the top-tier database and AI conferences. He has also served as one of the general chairs of the 25th Joint International Conference on Extending Database Technology and Database Theory (EDBT/ICDT 2022) and as one of the general chairs of the 16th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW2020).
