Awards, Honors, and Achievements
ACM SIGMOD Test‑of‑Time Award
The ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) recognizes the paper with the greatest impact on the field—spanning research, products, and methodology—over the preceding decade. Citation: "For advancing time-series clustering through a shape-based approach, achieving a distinctive synthesis of high accuracy, computational efficiency, and broad-domain applicability."
"Best Runner Up Demo" Award, IEEE ICDE 2024
Our demo paper was among the best of the 40th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (IEEE ICDE).
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%)
"Best of VLDB 2022"
Our paper was among the best research papers published at the 48th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB).
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."
NetApp Faculty Award
Recognizes faculty “pursuing cutting‐edge research in data management.” First time awarded to a postdoc.
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.
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 2015”
Our paper was one of the two best papers of ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data.
Fellowships and Scholarships
Paul Nichoplas Scholarship, Columbia University
Recognizes graduate or undergraduate students of Greek ancestry. Covers stipend and tuition expenses.
Alexander S. Onassis Foundation Fellowship
Recognizes Greek graduate students with outstanding academic record. (3 Ph.D. fellows in computer science out of 1000+ applicants.)
Empirikion Foundation Scholarship
Recognizes Greek scholars in Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Engineering areas.
Gerondelis Scholarship
Recognizes students of Greek ancestry ranked at the top of their class.
A. G. Leventis Foundation Fellowship
Recognizes Greek graduate students in Social Sciences, Technology, Arts, Natural Sciences, Medical, and Business fields.
Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation Scholarship
Supports “cutting‐edge research in the fields of engineering.”
The General Michael Arnaoutis Foundation Scholarship
Recognizes top Greek undergraduate students in Computer Science and Engineering fields for post‐graduate studies abroad.