Assistant Professor
Lead of Research Group Spatial Analytics and Large Scale Data Processing
Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), University of Potsdam, Germany
Assistant Professor
IT University of Copenhagen
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I am an Assistant Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) since 2022. As of March 2025, I will join the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) and the University of Potsdam as an Assistant Professor for Spatial Analytics and Large-Scale Data Processing. My research focuses on developing data management tools that improve the efficiency of modern data analytics and data science workloads, with an emphasis on spatial workloads.
Before joining ITU, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Berlin (TUB) and a junior fellow at the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD). I earned my PhD from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2019, where I was advised by Prof. Anastasia Ailamaki. During my doctoral studies, I also spent four months as a visiting researcher at New York University (NYU) with Prof. Juliana Freire. My dissertation research focused on query processing for spatial and temporal data exploration. I obtained a Diploma M. Eng. Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2013.
I am the recipient of a VLDB 2022 Distinguished Reviewer Award and a SIGMOD 2018 Best Demonstration Award.
I serve as Diversity and Inclusion co-chair for EDBT 2025-2026, as Proceedings co-chair for SIGMOD 2025, and as Program co-chair for HDMS 2025.
Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), University of Potsdam, Germany
IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Technical University of Berlin, Germany
New York University, USA
EPFL, Switzerland
EPFL, Switzerland
Ph.D. in Computer Science
EPFL, Switzerland
Diploma M. Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
National Technical University of Athens, Greece