His academic genealogy includes two Nobel laureates (Felix Bloch and Werner Heisenberg), Arnold Sommerfeld and prominent mathematicians.
He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM),[3] Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE),[4] and International Neural Network Society (INNS).
Most recently he received the 2018 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Neural Networks Pioneer Award[6] and the 2018 National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) Miles Conrad Award.
[8] Before his work on neural networks, Giles published papers on reflection and scattering of electromagnetic waves from magnetic materials for the particular cases of equal refractive indexes.
His work is mentioned in the following articles: Fresnel equations, Mie scattering, and Brewster's angle.
In 1998 and 1999 his work published in Science and Nature with Steve Lawrence estimated the size of the web and showed that search engines did not index that much of it.
With Steve Lawrence and Kurt Bollacker, Giles was responsible for the creation in 1997 of automatic citation indexing[9] and CiteSeer, a public academic search engine and digital library for Computer and Information Science.
In addition, he was responsible for the creation of an academic business search engine and digital library, BizSeer (previously known as SmealSearch).
These services were based on SeerSuite, a package of open sources tools for searching and indexing academic documents and data.