Alkis Simitsis
Scholar

Alkis Simitsis

Google Scholar ID: 7GMeGfgAAAAJ
Research Director, Athena Research Center
DatabasesDatabase SystemsData ManagementBig Data AnalyticsData Science
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
2,261
 
H-index
25
 
i10-index
60
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
98
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Holds 46 U.S. and European patents.
  • Published 130+ papers in refereed international journals and conferences, with top publications cited over 8,000 times (h-index: 47).
  • Frequently serves on program committees of international scientific conferences.
  • Recent awards include:
  • - VLDB 2025: Best EAB Paper Award, Distinguished Associate Editor Award
  • - IEEE ICDE 2024: Best Demo Award
  • - EDBT 2024: Best Demo Award
  • - ACM DOLAP 2023: Test-of-Time Award
  • - VLDB 2023: Distinguished Associate Editor Award
  • - IEEE ICDE 2023: Industry & Applications Best Metareviewer Award
  • - EDBT 2023: Distinguished PC Member Award
  • - ACM SIGMOD 2021: Distinguished PC
  • - ACM CIKM 2020, SIGMOD 2014, SIGMOD 2012: Best Demo Awards
Research Experience
  • Previously held positions at HP/HPE Labs, Micro Focus, Unravel Data, and IBM Research as Chief Scientist, Systems Architect, and Principal Research Scientist.
  • Led/participated in major research projects including:
  • - Climpact II (2023–2026, GSRT Flagship Initiative for Climate Change, €3.15M)
  • - DEDS (2021–2025, H2020-MSCA-ITN project, €3.95M)
  • - INFORE (2019–2022, H2020-ICT project, €4.43M)
  • - Climpact (2019–2022, GSRT Flagship Initiative for Climate Change, €3.1M)