John Mylopoulous

Biography:

Professor Mylopoulos is Professor Emertius at the University of Toronto and a Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa. In 2015, he was recognised as a Distinguished Professor by the Italian Government. He received his BEng degree from Brown University in 1966 and his PhD degree from Princeton in 1970, the year he joined the faculty of the University of Toronto. His research interests include requirements engineering, data semantics and knowledge management. He retired from Toronto in 2009, and joined the University of Trento (Italy) where he led a large European project on Software Engineering (2011-16).

Mylopoulos is the recipient of the first Outstanding Services Award given by the Canadian AI Society (1992), a co-recipient of the most influential paper award of the 1994 International Conference on Software Engineering, a fellow of the American Association for AI (AAAI), the elected president of the VLDB Endowment (1998-01, re-elected for the period 2002-05), and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.