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 at AWS and Huawei. Minos received the MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and previously held senior/principal researcher positions at Bell Labs, Intel Research Berkeley, and Yahoo! Research; in parallel, he held an Adjunct Professor position at the EECS Department of UC Berkeley. 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.