2023 IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award for breakthroughs in time-series data management and contributions to adaptive methodologies for data-intensive and ML applications
2025 ACM SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award for advancing time-series clustering via a shape-based approach with high accuracy, efficiency, and broad applicability
Research featured in major media including The New York Times (front page), Washington Post, Forbes, Guardian, Fortune, and MIT Technology Review
Open-source tools downloaded over 100,000 times and integrated into widely-used third-party libraries
Methods adopted in curricula at Brown, Columbia, Purdue, and University of Chicago
Techniques applied across disciplines (CS, biology, medicine, social science, neuroscience) and by Fortune 500 companies (e.g., Exelon, Nokia) and the European Space Agency
Active service on program/organizing committees of top conferences: ACM SIGMOD, VLDB, IEEE ICDE, ACM SIGKDD, IEEE ICDM, ICML, NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCAI
Lifetime Member of ACM and AAAI; Member of IEEE and ELLIS
Background
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University
Director of The DATUM Lab (Data Analytics, Understanding, Mining, and Management Lab)
Assistant Professor (Adjunct) at the School of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Research focuses on foundational technologies for data-intensive and machine learning applications
Expertise spans databases, data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence
Develops adaptive, effective, and scalable solutions for analyzing structured and unstructured data, including relational, time-series, multimedia, text, graph, web, and IoT data