Minos Garofalakis#
| Membership Number: | 6678 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GREECE |
| Homepage(s): | https://minosng.github.io/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0285-3907 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/minos/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017/06 - present Director, Information Management Systems Institute (IMSI), Athena Research &
- Innovation Center, Athens, Greece
- 09/2008 - present Professor, School of ECE, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
- 06/2023 - present Senior Research Consultant, Huawei Edinburgh Research Center, Edinburgh, UK
- 08/2022 - present Co-founder, Agora Labs (https://www.agoralabs.us
)
- 02/2022 - 02/2023 Academic Research Consultant, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Seattle, WA, USA
- 08/2020 - 03/2022 Private Data Analytics Consultant, Lynkeus, SRL, Rome, Italy
- 02/2007 - 09/2008 Principal Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research, Santa Clara, CA, USA
- 07/2006 - 09/2008 Adjunct Assoc. Professor, EECS Department, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
- 07/2005 - 02/2007 Senior Research Scientist, Intel Research Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
- 09/1998 - 07/2005 Member of Technical Staff, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, USA
- 09/1997 - 03/1998 Research Consultant, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, USA
- 06/1994 - 08/1998 Research & Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Large-scale machine learning
- Private data analytics
- Computation for federated analytics, blockchain systems
- Big data analytics
- Machine learning
- Query processing and optimization
Honours and Awards
- 2018 ACM Fellow (“for contributions to data processing and analytics, particularly data streaming, approximation, and uncertainty”)
- 2017 IEEE Fellow (“for contributions to data streaming analytics”)
- 2015 Excellence in Research Award, Technical University of Crete
- 2010 - 2014 FP7 Marie-Curie International Reintegration Fellowship
- 2004 Bell Labs President’s Gold Award (for the NetInventory-NetView system)
- 2003 Central Bell Labs Teamwork Award (for the NetInventory-NetView system)
