Stavros Harizopoulos

Researcher
Intelligent Information Management Lab
Palo Alto

Biography

Stavros is a researcher in the Intelligent Information Management Lab, focused on enabling near real-time business intelligence with robust, scalable data management, data-intensive analytics and fusion of structured and unstructured information. He received a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Crete, Greece in 1998, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2000 and 2005, respectively. From 2005 to 2007 he worked as a Post-Doctoral researcher at the Database group of MIT.

 

Research interests

Stavros's research interests are in energy-efficient data management systems, query processing on new processor and storage technologies, main-memory transaction processing, and column-oriented data warehouses.

Publications

  • D. Tsirogiannis, S. Harizopoulos, M. A. Shah, J. L. Wiener, and G. Graefe. "Query Processing Techniques for Solid State Drives." In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Providence, RI, July 2009.
  • S. Harizopoulos, M. A. Shah, J. Meza, and P. Ranganathan. "Energy Efficiency: The New Holy Grail of Data Management Systems Research." In Proceedings of the Fourth Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), Asilomar, CA, January 2009.
  • S. Harizopoulos, D. Abadi, S. Madden, and M. Stonebraker. "OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There." In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 2008.
  • M. A. Shah, S. Harizopoulos, J. L. Wiener, and G. Graefe. "Fast Scans and Joins Using Flash Drives." In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware (DaMoN), Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 2008.