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News

The dbTrento group is accepting applications for 2 funded PhD positions in the general area of big data analysis. The deadline for applications is May15 at 1pm CET.

VLDB is coming to Trento! Profs Themis Palpanas and Yannis Velegrakis of dbTrento are the General Chairs for VLDB 2013, which is already accepting contributions.


Contact Info

DISI - UNITN
Via Sommarive 14
Povo, TN 38123
Italy

email: [first name] at "disi.unitn.eu"

tel:  +39 (0461) 28-3908
fax: +39 (0461) 28-3166

in person: how to get here


Intro

I am currently a member of faculty in the Information Engineering and Computer Science Department (DISI), at the University of Trento.

I am Director of dbTrento (the Databases and Information Management Group of DISI), General Chair for VLDB 2013 (the premier international conference on very large databases), Vice-Chair of DKE (the Data and Knowledge Engineering Research Area of Trento Rise, bringing together more than 85 faculty, research staff, and student members), and Coordinator of DKM (the Data And Knowledge Management Research Area in DISI).

I am a founding member of the Event Processing Technical Society, and have been a member of the IBM Academy of Technology Study on Event Processing. I serve on the editorial boards and program committees of several international journals and conferences in the areas of data management and data mining. I have received three Best Paper awards in international conferences (PERCOM 2012, ICDE 2010, ADAPTIVE 2009), and authored five US Patents, three of which are part of commercial systems.

Before joining the University of Trento, I worked at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and at the University of California at Riverside. I have also held visiting researcher positions at the National University of Singapore, Microsoft Research, and the IBM Almaden Research Center.

I received my BSc degree from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and then received the MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Toronto, Canada.

Trivium: my Erdos Number is 3.

 

Research Interests

  • Database Management Systems
  • Streaming Data Management
  • Data Analysis and Mining
  • Business Process Management
  • View Maintenance, Caching, and Prefetching

 

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