!!!Phokion Kolaitis
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__Present and Previous Positions__
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*2012 - present  Distinguished Professor of Computer Science,  University of California Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz)
*2014 - present Principal Research Staff Member (part-time), Computer Science Principles and Methodologies, IBM Almaden Research Center
*2014 - 2015   Chair, Computer Science Department, UC Santa Cruz
*2008 - 2014   Research Staff Member (part-time), Computer Science Principles and Methodologies, IBM Almaden Research Center
*2004 - 2008:  Research Staff Member and Senior Manager, Computer Science Principles and Methodologies, IBM Almaden Research Center (on leave without pay from UC Santa Cruz)
*2001 - 2002:  Academic Visitor, Foundations of Computer Science Group, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose (on sabbatical leave from UC Santa Cruz)
*1997 - 2001:  Chair, Computer Science Department, UC Santa Cruz
*1994 - 2012: Professor, Computer Science, UC Santa Cruz
*1993 - 1994: Visiting Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Stanford University (supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship and a sabbatical leave from UC Santa Cruz)
*1990 - 1994: Associate Professor, Computer & Information Sciences, UC Santa Cruz
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__Fields of Scholarship__
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__Honours and Awards__
* 2017 Best Paper Award for the paper "Generalized Satisfiability Problems via Operator Assignments" (co-authored with A. Atserias and S. Severini), 21st International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory (FCT 2017)
* 2015 Best Paper Award for the paper  "A Declarative Framework for Linking Entities" (co-authored with D. Burdick, R. Fagin, L. Popa, and W.-C. Tan), 18th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2015)
* 2015 IBM Research Division Outstanding Innovation Award for "Synthesis of Schema Mappings from Data Examples".
* 2014  Honorary Doctoral Degree (Doctor Honoris Causa), Department of Mathematics and Department of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece, November 2014
* 2014  ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award for the paper "Composing Schema Mappings: Second-Order Logic to the Rescue" (co-authored with R. Fagin, L. Popa, and W.-C. Tan)
* 2013 International Conference on Database Theory Test-of-Time Award for the paper "Data Exchange: Semantics and Query Answering" (co-authored with R. Fagin, R.J. Miller, and L. Popa)
* 2012  ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS) Recognition of Service Award
* 2012  Best Paper Award} for the paper  "Learning Schema Mappings" (co-authored with B.  ten Cate and V. Dalmau), 15th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2012)
* 2010  Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), elected in December 2010
* 2009 Best Paper Award  for the paper "Repair Checking in Inconsistent Databases:  Algorithms and Complexity" (co-authored with F. Afrati) 12th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2009)
* 2008  ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award for the paper "Conjunctive-query containment and constraint satisfaction" (co-authored with M.Y. Vardi).
* 2008 IBM Research Division Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for "Schema Mappings Research: Theory and Practice"
* 2007 Foreign Member, Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, elected in April 2007
* 2005 Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), elected in November 2005
* 2005  IBM Research Division Outstanding Innovation Award for "Foundations of Schema Mappings"
* 1995  Excellence in Teaching Award, awarded by the graduating computer science and computer engineer majors of UC
* Santa Cruz 
* 1993 - 1994  Guggenheim Fellowship, awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, September 1,
* 1993 to August 31, 1994
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[Curriculum Vitae |User/Kolaitis_Phokion/CV]
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[Publication list|User/Kolaitis_Phokion/Publications]
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[Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Kolaitis_Phokion/Highlight]
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