Mihalis Yannakakis(1953)

Mihalis Yannakakis is a recipient of the Knuth Prize (2005) from Greece. They were educated at Princeton University and National Technical University of Athens. They have been affiliated with Columbia University.

Greece
1
Major Awards
252
Publications
33,372
Citations
86
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i10-index
132.4
Avg Citations/Paper

Awards & Recognition

Most Cited Works

Top publications by citation count
#2

Reducing Tarski to Unique Tarski (in the Black-box Model)

Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex.(2026)
13
citations
#4

The Fairness-Quality Trade-off in Clustering

Neural Information Processing Systems(2024)
3
citations
#5
8
citations
#7

Smoothed Complexity of SWAP in Local Graph Partitioning

ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms(2023)
5
citations
#8
6
citations
#9
15
citations

Recent Publications

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Reducing Tarski to Unique Tarski (in the Black-box Model)

Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex.2026
13citations

The Fairness-Quality Trade-off in Clustering

Neural Information Processing Systems2024
3citations
8citations
Open Access

Smoothed Complexity of SWAP in Local Graph Partitioning

ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms2023
5citations
Open Access
6citations
Open Access
15citations
Open Access

Education

Princeton University
National Technical University of Athens

Doctoral Advisors

Spyridon AntonakopoulosIlias DiakonikolasDimitris PaparasJeffrey David Ullman

Academy Memberships

National Academy of Sciences (US)American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Top Publications

REACT to Cyber Attacks on Power Grids
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering201946 citations
Computing a Fixed Point of Contraction Maps in Polynomial Queries
Proceedings of the 56th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing20241 citations
Recursive stochastic games with positive rewards
Theoretical Computer Science20191 citations

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