Short bio
Education
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PhD, Computer Science, Boston
University, 2008–2011
MA, Computer Science, Boston University, 2006–2008
Dipl.Eng., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Athens Polytechnic, 2000–2005
Work in Industry
- Software Engineer,
Google, Mountain View, CA, since July 2014
Past:
Member of Technical Staff, Smart Deals, Groupon, Palo Alto, CA, August 2011 - June 2014
Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Searchlabs, Silicon Valley, Summer 2010
Research Intern, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Summer 2008
Publications
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T. Nykiel, M. Potamias, C. Mishra, G. Kollios, and N. Koudas. Sharing Across Multiple MapReduce Jobs. In ACM Transactions on Database Systems, TODS, 2014.
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G. Kollios, M. Potamias, and E. Terzi. Clustering Probabilistic Graphs. In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, TKDE, [pdf], 2013.
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M. Potamias. The warm-start bias of Yelp ratings. arXiv, [pdf], 2012.
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R. Agrawal, M. Potamias, and E. Terzi. Learning the Nature of Information in Social Networks. AAAI ICWSM 2012, MSR-TR-2011-59, [MSR], [pdf].
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J. Byers, M. Mitzenmacher, M. Potamias, and G. Zervas. A Month in the Life of Groupon. arXiv, [pdf] 2011.
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P. Papapetrou, V. Athitsos, M. Potamias, G. Kollios, and D. Gunopoulos. Embedding-based Subsequence Matching in Time Series Databases. In ACM Transactions on Database Systems, TODS, 2011.
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M. Potamias, F. Bonchi, A. Gionis, and G. Kollios. k-Nearest Neighbors in Uncertain Graphs. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, PVLDB, 3(1):997- 1008, 2010. [pdf] [vldb] [slides]
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T. Nykiel, M. Potamias, C. Mishra, G. Kollios, and N. Koudas. MRShare: Sharing Across Multiple Queries in MapReduce. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, PVLDB, 3(1):494-505, 2010. [pdf] [vldb] [slides]
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M. Potamias, F. Bonchi, C. Castillo, and A. Gionis. Fast Shortest Path Distance Estimation in Large Networks. Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management, CIKM 2009, pp.867–876. Hong Kong, China. [pdf] [acm] [slides][code]
Best Student Paper Award [pic] -
V. Athitsos, P. Papapetrou, M. Potamias, G. Kollios, and D. Gunopoulos. Approximate Embedding-based Subsequence Matching of Time Series. Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, ACM SIGMOD 2008, pp.365–378. Vancouver, Canada. [pdf] [acm]
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M. Potamias, and V. Athitsos. Nearest Neighbor Search Methods for Handshape Recognition. Proceedings of the 1st international conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2008, 30:1–30:8. Athens, Greece. [pdf] [acm]
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V. Athitsos, M. Potamias, P. Papapetrou, and G. Kollios. Nearest Neighbor Retrieval Using Distance-Based Hashing. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Data Engineering, IEEE ICDE 2008, pp.327–336. Cancun, Mexico. [pdf] [ieee] [slides] [poster-nedbday] [code]
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D. Sacharidis, K. Patroumpas, M. Terrovitis, V. Kantere, M. Potamias, K. Mouratidis, and T. Sellis. On-line Discovery of Hot Motion Paths. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT 2008, pp.392–403. Nantes, France. [pdf] [acm]
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M. Potamias, K. Patroumpas, and T. Sellis. Online Amnesic Summarization of Streaming Locations. Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases, SSTD 2007, pp.148–166. Boston, Massachusetts. [pdf] [springer]
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M. Potamias, K. Patroumpas, and T. Sellis. Amnesic online synopses for moving objects. Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management, ACM CIKM 2006, pp.784–785. Arlington, Virginia. Poster paper. [pdf] [acm] [poster]
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M. Potamias, K. Patroumpas, and T. Sellis. Sampling Trajectory Streams with Spatiotemporal Criteria. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, SSDBM 2006, pp.275–284. Vienna, Austria. [pdf] [ieee]
Service
Program Committee member
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ECML/PKDD 2011
Journals (reviewer)
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IEEE TKDE, VLDB Journal, KAIS
Conferences (external reviewer)
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KDD 2011, SIGMOD 2011, ICDE 2011, VLDB 2010, CIKM 2010, EDBT 2010, ICDE 2010, VLDB 2009, CIKM 2009, SIGMOD 2009, EDBT 2009, ICDM 2009, KDD 2008, SSDBM 2008, ICDE 2008, VLDB 2007, SSDBM 2007
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Awards
Computer Science Research Excellence Award, Boston University 2011
Best Student Paper Award, ACM CIKM 2009
Best Diploma Thesis Award, Athens Polytechnic, 2005
Grants
Fellow
- A.G. Leventis Foundation,
2007–2010
- Eleni Gatzoyiannis,
Boston University, since 2007
Travel grants
- Yahoo! Research –
CIKM 2009
- Boston University, Computer
Science Department – ICDE 2008
Teaching Fellow
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Fall 2008 : CS105
: Introduction to Databases and Data Analysis
Fall 2007 : CS105 : Introduction to Databases and Data Analysis
Spring 2007 : CS105 : Introduction to Databases and Data Analysis
Fall 2006 : CS101 : Introduction to Computer Science
Other
CS department representative for the Graduate
Student Organization since 2007
Organized the Social
Networks reading group in Spring 2009
Mentored Justin Davis (MA, 2010) - Implementation
of Distance Based Hashing in C++
Mentored Alice Wang (MA, 2010) - Implementation
of Data Managemement Group website