Stavros Harizopoulos
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Research
Interests
Design, implementation, and performance of data management systems; storage systems; scheduling algorithms; performance modeling; hardware/software co-design; thread-parallel architectures and distributed systems.

Education Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2005
Thesis: "Staged Database Systems"
M.S. in Computer Science, December 2000

Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
5-year Diploma in Electronic and Computer Engineering, August 1998

Experience HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Full-time Researcher, October 2007 - present

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Post-doctoral Research Associate (CSAIL Visiting Scientist), October 2005 - September 2007

IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA
Summer internship in storage systems, June 2000 - September 2000

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Teaching assistant, 15-213 Introduction to Computer Systems, Fall 2003
Teaching assistant, 15-721 Database Management Systems, Fall 2001
Teaching assistant, 15-415A Database Applications, Spring 2000

Selected
Publications
Stavros Harizopoulos, Daniel Abadi, Samuel Madden, and Michael Stonebraker.
"OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There." In Proc. SIGMOD, 2008

Stavros Harizopoulos, Velen Liang, Daniel Abadi, and Samuel Madden.
"Performance Tradeoffs in Read-Optimized Databases." In Proc. VLDB, 2006

Stavros Harizopoulos and Anastassia Ailamaki.
"Improving Instruction Cache Performance in OLTP." In TODS, September 2006

Stavros Harizopoulos, Vladislav Shkapenyuk, and Anastassia Ailamaki.
"QPipe: A Simultaneously Pipelined Relational Query Engine." In Proc. SIGMOD, 2005

Stavros Harizopoulos and Anastassia Ailamaki.
"STEPS Towards Cache-Resident Transaction Processing." In Proc. VLDB, 2004

Stavros Harizopoulos and Anastassia Ailamaki.
"A Case for Staged Database Systems." In Proc. CIDR, 2003

Professional  DaMoN 2008, ExpDB 2007, HDMS 2006 Program Committee member
SIGMOD 2005 Demonstrations Program Committee and Judging Committee member
External reviewer for SIGMOD, VLDB, CIDR conferences

Honors Best Demonstration Award, International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2006
IBM Ph.D. Fellowship 2002-2003
Lilian Voudouri Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship 1999 - 2002
Technical Chamber of Greece Best Polytechnic Student Award, 1998
Greek National Scholarship Foundation (I.K.Y.) 1993, 1997
Panhellenic Olympiad for Mathematics: Bronze medals 1990, 1993

Other info Greek Citizenship, currently on O-1 visa status