Minos Garofalakis is a Professor at the School of ECE at the Technical University of Crete (TUC), and the Co-founder and Director of Research at Agora Labs, a startup company bringing state-of-the-art data privacy technologies to the healthcare domain. He also recently completed an 8.5-year term as Director of the Information Management Systems Institute (IMSI) at the ATHENA Research Center, where he remains as collaborating faculty member, and has worked as a senior research consultant for Amazon AWS and Huawei. Minos received the MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and, before his return to Greece, held senior/principal researcher positions at Bell Labs, Intel Research Berkeley, and Yahoo! Research;, in parallel, he worked as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the EECS Department of UC Berkeley (2006-2008). Minos’s research interests lie in the broad area of Big Data Analytics. He has published over 170 papers that have received more than 17,000 citations (h-index=70) according to Google Scholar. Minos is an ACM and IEEE Fellow (for contributions to data analytics), a Member of Academia Europaea, and a recipient of several awards, including the TUC “Excellence in Research” Award, the Bell Labs President’s Gold Award, three Best Research Paper Awards, and ten "best of" conference paper selections.