John's

Awards, Honors, and Achievements

2023
IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award

The IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering (TCDE) recognizes internationally an individual’s work in the first five years after the Ph.D. degree. Citation: “For breakthroughs in time series data management, as well as contributions to adaptive methodologies for data intensive and machine learning applications.”

"Best Reviewer" Award, ACM SIGKDD 2023

The ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) recognizes reviewers of the main research track of ACM SIGKDD 2023 for “their very hard and conscientious work.” (30 out of 1411 reviewers or top 2%)

2019
ACM SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention

The ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) recognizes internationally “outstanding doctoral dissertations in the areas of data science, machine learning, and data mining."

2018
NetApp Faculty Award

Recognizes faculty “pursuing cutting‐edge research in data management.” First time awarded to a postdoc.

2016
Front page of The New York Times covers our research

Media coverage of our study on building a screening solution for devastating diseases using Web search logs.

ISSI “Paper of the Year” Award, Finalist

The International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) recognizes “high quality research in the field of Scientometrics and Informetrics.” In the ten finalists, voted among publications from 2014 to 2016.

2015
ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award

The ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) recognizes projects across premier database conferences that “exemplify core database research, address an important problem, represent a definitive milestone in solving the problem, and have the potential of significant impact.”

“Best of ACM SIGMOD”

Our paper was one of the two best papers of ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data.

Fellowships and Scholarships

2016
Paul Nichoplas Scholarship, Columbia University

Recognizes graduate or undergraduate students of Greek ancestry. Covers stipend and tuition expenses.

2014
Alexander S. Onassis Foundation Fellowship

Recognizes Greek graduate students with outstanding academic record. (3 Ph.D. fellows in computer science out of 1000+ applicants.)

2013
Empirikion Foundation Scholarship

Recognizes Greek scholars in Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Engineering areas.

2012
Gerondelis Scholarship

Recognizes students of Greek ancestry ranked at the top of their class.

2011
A. G. Leventis Foundation Fellowship

Recognizes Greek graduate students in Social Sciences, Technology, Arts, Natural Sciences, Medical, and Business fields.

2010
Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation Scholarship

Supports “cutting‐edge research in the fields of engineering.”

2009
The General Michael Arnaoutis Foundation Scholarship

Recognizes top Greek undergraduate students in Computer Science and Engineering fields for post‐graduate studies abroad.