
Professor at Technical University of Crete
Greece

Professor at Technical University of Crete
Greece
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Minos Garofalakis is a Professor of Computer Science at the Dept. of Electronic & Computer Engineering of the Technical University of Crete (TUC) and the Director of the Software Technology and Network Applications Laboratory (SoftNet). Previously, he was a Principal Research Scientist with the Community Systems group at Yahoo! Research in Santa Clara, California (2007-2008), and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley (2006-2008). He also held positions as a Senior Researcher at Intel Research Berkeley (2005-2007), and a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories (1998-2005). He obtained his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998. Minos currently serves as an Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Database Systems (ACM TODS) and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE), and as an Editorial Board Member for Foundations and Trends in Databases. He recently served as the Core Database Technology PC Chair for the VLDB'2007 conference in Vienna, Austria, and completed a term as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin (2004-2006). He has also repeatedly served on the technical program committees of all major data-management conferences, including ACM SIGMOD, VLDB, ACM PODS, IEEE ICDE, and ACM SIGKDD. Minos' research interests lie in the areas of data-stream management, approximate query processing, probabilistic database systems, network-data management, and XML databases. He is a Senior Member of the ACM, and a Member of the IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.
Managing data streams and massive data sets, data reduction and approximate query processing, probabilistic database systems, network-data management (including sensornet and P2P query processing, applications to network security, etc.), XML databases.
Senior Member of ACM; Member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society