The Department of Computer Science (CSD) of the University of Crete congratulates its students Nikos Tzanakis, Mario Alexios Savaglio, Christina Brozi, Professor Maria Papadopouli, and their collaborators, who received two Best Paper Awards at the 25th IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE).

Established in 2000, the BIBE conference series is the longest-running international IEEE conference in its field, having inspired numerous related scientific fora. The awarded papers are:

1. Nikolaos Tzanakis, Alexandros Barberis, Ioanna Chourdaki, Mario Alexios Savaglio, Stelios Manolis Smirnakis, and Maria Papadopouli. “Disentangling Stimulus and Population Dynamics in Mouse V1: Orthogonal Subspace Decomposition for Neural Representation.” IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (BIBE), November 6–8, 2025.
2. Mario Alexios Savaglio, Christina Brozi, Stelios Manolis Smirnakis, and Maria Papadopouli. “On Temporal Robustness and Brain-State Stability of Functional Connectivity in Mouse Primary Visual Area V1 Compared to Higher Visual Area AL.” IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (BIBE), November 6–8, 2025.

Mario Alexios Savaglio, Nikos Tzanakis (graduate students of the Department of Computer Science, University of Crete), and Ioanna Chourdaki (student at the Archimedes Research Unit), work under the supervision of Professor Maria Papadopouli.