Stavros Harizopoulos
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Research
Interests
Design, implementation, and performance of data management systems; storage systems; hardware/software co-design; 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
Senior Research Scientist, June 2010 - September 2011
Research Scientist, October 2007 - June 2010

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
Dimitris Tsirogiannis, Stavros Harizopoulos, and Mehul Shah.
"Analyzing the Energy Efficiency of a Database Server." In Proc. SIGMOD, 2010

Dimitris Tsirogiannis, Stavros Harizopoulos, Mehul Shah, Janet Wiener, and Goetz Graefe.
"Query Processing Techniques for Solid State Drives." In Proc. SIGMOD, 2009

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

M. Stonebraker, S. Madden, D. Abadi, S. Harizopoulos, N. Hachem, and P. Helland.
"The End of an Architectural Era (It's Time for a Complete Rewrite)." In Proc. VLDB, 2007

Stavros Harizopoulos, Velen Liang, Daniel Abadi, and Samuel Madden.
"Performance Tradeoffs in Read-Optimized Databases." In Proc. VLDB, 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  Program Committee Co-chair, DaMoN 2011
PVLDB 2011/12, CIDR 2011, VLDB 2010, SIGMOD 2010 Program Committee member
NSF Panelist, 2011, 2010

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, U.S. Permanent Resident (Green Card)