Yannis Velegrakis (M) is a professor of Computer Science at Utrecht University (Netherlands) where he holds the chair on Very Large Data Management, is the head of the Data Intensive Systems Group, and leads the Master's programme in Data Science. His research area of expertise includes Data preparation and Curation, Data Quality, Big Data Management, Knowledge Discovery, Graph Management, Highly Heterogeneous Information Integration and Data Exploration. He holds a PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.

In the past, he has been a professor at the University of Trento, and previously a researcher at the AT&T Research Labs. He has spent time for research work at IBM Almaden Research Center, the Huawei European Research Center in Munich, the Center of Advanced Studies of the IBM Toronto Lab, the University of California, Santa-Cruz, and the University of Paris-Saclay. He has held the role of the general coordinator of the EIT Digital MSc Program at the University of Trento, and of the coordinator of its Data Science Technical Major. He has served in various roles in committees of international conferences and journal board. He has been the general chair of VLDB 2013 and ICDE 2024, the PC Chair of EDBT 2021, and area chair in multiple VLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE, and EDBT Conferences. He is currently serving on the board of EDBT Association and the VLDB Board of Trustees, is associate editor for Systems in SIGMOD Record, and is on the board of the SIKS Research School. More information, including his publication record, can be found on his website  and his DBLP entry.