Georgia Koutrika

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Researcher
Palo Alto

Biography

Georgia is a researcher in the Printing and Content Delivery Lab, at HP Labs, Palo Alto. Prior to that, she was with the Information Integration Group at IBM Almaden Research Center. She obtained her diploma and her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Athens in Greece and she was a postdoctoral researcher at the CS Department of Stanford University.

 

Research interests

Her research interests include personalized search, recommendations, user modeling, social media, sentiment analysis, information extraction, resolution and integration, and search interfaces.

Publications

Journals (selected)

  • K. Stefanidis, G. Koutrika, E. Pitoura. A Survey on Representation, Composition and Application of Preferences in Database Systems. ACM Trans. Database Syst., 36(4), 2011.
  • G. Koutrika, Y. Ioannidis. Personalizing Queries based on Networks of Composite Preferences. ACM Trans. Database Syst. 35(2): (2010).

Conferences (selected)
  • A. Arvanitis, G. Koutrika. Towards Preference-aware Relational Databases. ICDE, Washington, 2012.
  • A. Parameswaran, G. Koutrika, B. Bercovitz, H. Garcia-Molina. Recsplorer: Recommendation Algorithms based on Precedence Mining. In Proc. of ACM SIGMOD, 2010.
  • G. Koutrika, A. Simitsis, Y. Ioannidis. Conversational Databases: Explaining Structured Queries to Users. 26th Int’l Conference on Data Engineering, (ICDE), 2010.
  • G. Koutrika, B. Bercovitz, H. Garcia-Molina. FlexRecs: Expressing and Combining Flexible Recommendations. In Proc.of ACM SIGMOD, 2009.
  • B. Bercovitz, F. Kaliszan, G. Koutrika, H. Liou, Z. Mohammadi Zadeh, H. Garcia-Molina. CourseRank: A Social System for Course Planning. In Proc.of ACM SIGMOD, 2009. (Best Demo Award).
  • G. Koutrika, B. Bercovitz, F. Kaliszan, H. Liou, H. Garcia-Molina. CourseRank: A Closed-Community Social System Through the Magnifying Glass. 3rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 2009 (best paper nominee).
  • G. Koutrika, Z. Mohammadi Zadeh, H. Garcia-Molina. Data Clouds: Summarizing Keyword Search Results over Structured Data. 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2009.
  • G. Koutrika, R. Ikeda, B. Bercovitz, H. Garcia-Molina. Flexible Recommendations over Rich Data. 2nd ACM Int’l Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys), 2008.
  • A. Simitsis, G. Koutrika, Y. Alexandrakis, and Y. Ioannidis. Synthesizing Structured Text from Logical Database Subsets. 11th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, (EDBT), 2008.
  • P. Heymann, G. Koutrika, H. Garcia-Molina. Can Social Bookmarks Improve Web Search? 1st ACM Int’l. Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2008.
  • G. Koutrika, A. Simitsis, Y. Ioannidis. Précis: The Essence of a Query Answer. In Proc. of 22nd Intl. Conf. On Data Engineering (ICDE), 2006.
  • G. Koutrika, Y. Ioannidis. Constrained Optimalities in Query Personalization. In Proc.of ACM SIGMOD, 2005.
  • G. Koutrika, Y. Ioannidis. Personalized Queries under a Generalized Preference Model. In Proc. of 21st Intl. Conf. On Data Engineering (ICDE), 2005.
  • G. Koutrika, Y. Ioannidis. Personalization of Queries in Database systems. In Proc. of 20th Intl. Conf. On Data Engineering (ICDE), 2004.

Tutorials
  • G. Koutrika, K. Stefanidis, E. Pitoura. Representation, Composition and Application of Preferences in Databases. 26th Int’l Conference on Data Engineering, (ICDE), 2010.
  • Y. Ioannidis, G. Koutrika. Personalized Systems: Models and Methods from an IR and DB Perspective. In 23rd  Intl. Conf. On Data Engineering (ICDE), 2007.
  • Y. Ioannidis, G. Koutrika. Personalized Systems: Models and Methods from an IR and DB Perspective. 31st Intl. Conf. On Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2005.
 

Professional activities

Georgia is ACM SIGMOD Associate Information Director. She is also in the steering committee of PersDB (Int'l Workshop on Personalized Access, Profile Management, and Context Awareness in Databases) that is co-located with VLDB. She has served as a PC co-chair of four workshops, as a PC member in many conferences (including SIGMOD, ICDE, WWW, RecSys, WSDM), and as a reviewer for journals (including ACM TODS, ACM TKDE).