Minos Garofalakis -- Students/Postdocs

Postdocs

• Nikolaos Giatrakos  (2013 - 2022) -- now faculty at TU Crete
  

• Ekaterini Ioannou  (2011 - 2015) -- now faculty at Tilburg University
  

• Odysseas Papapetrou  (2011 - 2015) -- now faculty at TU Eindhoven
  

Graduate Student Alumni

• Daisy Zhe Wang  (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2011;  Co-advised with Mike Franklin and Joe Hellerstein)
  Thesis: "Extracting and Querying Probabilistic Information in BAYESSTORE"
  Current position: Assistant Professor, Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida
  

  
  

• Nikolaos Pavlakis  (M.Sc., Technical University of Crete, March 2017)
  Thesis: "Scaling Out Streaming Time-Series Analytics on Storm"
  Current position: Software Engineer, Amazon Web Services
  

• Ioannis Demertzis  (M.Sc., Technical University of Crete, July 2015)
  Thesis: "Practical, Secure and Efficient Range Search"
  Current position: Ph.D. Candidate, University of Maryland, College Park
  

• Ioakeim Perros  (M.Sc., Technical University of Crete, July 2014)
  Thesis: "Stochastic PageRank Maintenance over Shared-Nothing Architectures"
  Current position: Ph.D. Candidate, Georgia Tech
  

• Evangelos Vazaios  (M.Sc., Technical University of Crete, October 2013)
  Thesis: "BePadoop: Large-Scale Exact Belief Propagation in Hadoop"
  Current position: Ph.D. Candidate, Technical Univ. of Crete
  

• Kostas Athanasoglou  (M.Sc., Technical University of Crete, October 2012)
  Thesis: "Sketch-based Geometric Monitoring of Distributed Stream Queries"
  Current position: Software Engineer, VoiceWeb S.A.
  

• Lilia Gutnik  (M.Sc. (Plan II), University of California, Berkeley, 2007)
  Thesis: "Interface Challenges in Probabilistic Databases"
  Current position: Program Manager, Microsoft
  

Undergraduate Diploma Thesis Alumni

1. Ioannis Misokalos. Thesis: "MEREBO: A web mart aggregator for multi-source entity resolution and basket optimization", TUC, January 2023.
2. George Margaritis. Thesis: "Differentially-Private Data Synthesisusing Variational Autoencoders", TUC, July 2021.   (now at MIT)
3. Alexandros Tragkas. Thesis: "Blockchain Support for a Personal Data Marketplace", TUC, June 2021.
4. Christos Zaharioudakis. Thesis: "Large-Scale Differentially-Private Data Synthesis", TUC, February 2020.
5. Rafail-Athanasios Demertzis. Thesis: "Efficient Multi-dimensional Range Searchable Encryption for Large Databases", TUC, September 2019.
6. Nikolaos Kafritsas. Thesis: "Caching Platform for Large Scale Data-Intensive Applications", TUC, August 2019.
7. Christos Ziakas. Thesis: "Implementation of Decision Trees for Data Streams on the Spark Streaming Platform", TUC, September 2018.   (now at TU Munich)
8. Vassilis V. Digalakis. Thesis: "Data Analytics with Differential Privacy", TUC, August 2018.   (now at MIT)
9. Zafeiria Moumoulidou. Thesis: "Dynamic Decision Trees in a Distributed Environment", TUC, July 2018.   (now at UMass Amherst)
10. Periklis Chrysogelos. Thesis: "Streaming, High Performance Support Vector Methods", TUC, August 2016.   (now at EPFL)
11. Eirini Asteri. Thesis: "Distributed Sliding-Window Matrix Sketching", TUC, August 2016.   (now at UT-Austin)
12. Andreas Grammenos. Thesis: "A Distributed framework for online pattern discovery in multiple streaming time-series", TUC, March 2015.
13. Ioannis Demertzis. Thesis: "Private Data Analytics in Cloud Computing Environments", TUC, October 2013.   (now at UMD-College Park)
14. Georgios Fragiadoulakis. Thesis: "Implementation of Pagerank-based Search Engine on Hadoop", TUC, October 2013.
15. Georgios Komninos. Thesis: "Implementation of a Client-Server Mashup System using the Android Platform", TUC, April 2013.
16. Lefteris Soulas. Thesis: "Online Machine Learning for Currency Exchange Rate Prediction", TUC, February 2013.
17. Vasiliki Prokopi. Thesis: "Managing Information Extraction in a Mashup Environment", TUC, January 2013.
18. Ioakeim Perros. Thesis: "Soft Co-Clustering in Map-Reduce using Distributed Sparse Matrix Regression", TUC, October 2012.   (now at Georgia Tech)
19. Stylianos Papagrigoriou. Thesis: "Efficient Segmentation and Classification of Hyper-Spectral Cubes", TUC, July 2012.
20. Lampros Papageorgiou. Thesis: "Lineage Processing in Uncertain Operator Pipelines", TUC, July 2011.
21. Georgios Christopoulos. Thesis: "Fast, Efficient Data Stream Clustering Using Hadoop-Online", TUC, July 2011.
22. Apostolos Nydriotis. Thesis: "Dynamic Web-Service Mashups", TUC, December 2010.    **ACM SIGMOD'2011 Undergraduate Poster Award**
23. Agis Chartsias. Thesis: "Link Prediction in Large-Scale Social Networks using Hadoop", TUC, July 2010.
24. Kalliopi Kalantzaki. Thesis: "A High-Performance, Hadoop-based Parallel Crawler", TUC, March 2010.