I am an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU). 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 recepient of a VLDB 2022 Distinguished Reviewer Award and a SIGMOD 2018 Best Demonstration Award. I serve as a Diversity and Inclusion co-chair for the upcoming EDBT 2025.

News (all)

[11.2023]
Talking at the HPI-TU Darmstadt Joint Database Systems Seminar was fun.
[09.2023]
New preprint available on Arxiv: Enhancing In-Memory Spatial Indexing with Learned Search.
[09.2023]
Happy to finally present my research at the NERDS Seminar after a postponment of my previously scheduled talk.
[08.2023]
Martin presented our work on making sketching on FPGAs more resource-efficient at VLDB. Here you can find a recording of his talk. For more details, you can read our paper.
[08.2023]
New preprint available on Arxiv: APRIL: Approximating Polygons as Raster Interval Lists.
[08.2023]
Happy to become an AI Grid Mentor.
[07.2023]
I am honoured to serve as a Diversity and Inclusion Co-chair for EDBT 2025.
[06.2023]
I serve as PC Member of ICDE 2024 (Demo track) and LocalRec 2023.
[04.2023]
I serve as PC Member of DRAGSTERS 2023.
[03.2023]
Looking forward to attend EDBT in Ioannina, Greece, where I will also chair the session on Spatial & Temporal Data Management.
[03.2023]
Xenofon Chatziliadis will present our workshop paper at BTW in Dresden.
[02.2023]
I am delighted to have served as a member of the PhD thesis committee for Martin Kiefer at TU Berlin. This was my first time being on a thesis committee! Here is a photo with the succesful candidate.
[01.2023]
Our paper "SheetReader: Efficient Specialized Spreadsheet Parsing“ has been accepted for publication in the Information Systems Journal. You can also check out our open source implementation here - it has been downloaded more than 4000 times so far.
[12.2022]
Good end-of-the-year news! Our paper "Optimistic Data Parallelism for FPGA-Accelerated Sketching“ has been accepted for publication at PVLDB.
[10.2022]
I serve as PC Member of SIGMOD 2024.
[09.2022]
I am very honored to receive the VLDB 2022 Distinguished Reviewer Award.
[09.2022]
I will give a talk at the DIREC Seminar 2022, in Aarhus, Denmark.
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Employment

  • Present
    05/2022

    Assistant Professor

    IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

  • 04/2022
    10/2019

    Postdoctoral Researcher

    Technical University of Berlin, Germany

  • 10/2016
    07/2016

    PhD Visiting Scholar

    New York University, USA

  • 08/2019
    09/2013

    PhD Researcher

    EPFL, Switzerland

  • 08/2013
    01/2013

    Master Intern

    EPFL, Switzerland

Education

  • Ph.D. 2019

    Ph.D. in Computer Science

    EPFL, Switzerland

  • Diploma M. Eng.2013

    Diploma M. Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

    National Technical University of Athens, Greece