honors and awards
| 2023 | Distinguished Reviewer Award at VLDB'23 |
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| 2022 | NSF SaTC Core Medium Award "Secure outsourced analytics in untrusted clouds". More.. |
| Robert Bosch GmbH Research Award | |
| 2021 | Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Award. More.. |
| 2020 | ''Outstanding New Research Direction'' Award at Usenix HotStorage'20. More.. |
| 2019 | Swiss NSF ''Scientific Exchanges'' Award to support my research visit at UC Berkeley |
| 2015 | "Best Poster" Award at ESWC'15 |
| 2010 | Recipient of the EU-funded research fellowship ''HERACLITUS II'' for PhD candidates in Greek universities |
service
VLDB Journal (2025-2027)
SOSP 2024
NSDI 2024
TKDE (2024)
VLDB 2023, 2024
ICDE 2022 (Associate Chair)
WISE 2019
CCGrid 2019
EuroSys 2017 (Shadow PC Member)
ICDM 2014, 2015 (Demos)
selected talks
"The BU Secure Analytics Stack" at SysteMPC, 2025. (slides)
"Secrecy: Secure collaborative analytics in untrusted clouds" at NSDI, 2023. (video)
"In support of workload-aware streaming state management" at Usenix HotStorage, 2020. (video)
"Reconfigurable data stream processing" at Microsoft Research, Redmond, 2019. (slides)
"Strymon: Providing fast and meaningful insights into enterprise datacenters" at Ebay, San Jose, 2019. (slides)
"Understanding distributed dataflow systems" at VMware Research, Google, Harvard, BU, 2017. (slides)
past appointments
Jan 2020 - Jan 2022: Research Scientist at the Hariri Institute for Computing.
Mar 2015 - Nov 2019: Postdoc (until Jun 2017) and then senior researcher (oberassistent) at the Systems Group working with prof. Timothy Roscoe and this team on Strymon.
Jan 2019 - Jun 2019: Visiting scholar at the RISELab working with prof. Ion Stoica and the Ray team.
Sep 2014 - Mar 2015: Associate researcher at IMSI. I was involved in the R&D project MEDA that addressed various big data management problems.
Feb 2013 - Jul 2014: Visiting research fellow in the group of prof. Nikos Mamoulis, HKU, Hong Kong.
Mar 2009 - Mar 2015: PhD student at the Knowledge and Database Systems lab, NTUA, Greece, under the supervision of prof. Yannis Vassiliou and prof. Timos Sellis.