Awards, Honors, and Achievements
NSF CAREER Award
The National Science Foundation's most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty.
"Distinguished Reviewer" Award, ACM SIGMOD 2026
Recognizes reviewers for their outstanding work contributing to a high-quality, timely, and constructive peer-review process.
"Distinguished Reviewer" Award, VLDB 2026
Recognizes reviewers for their outstanding work and exemplary service contributing to a high-quality and timely peer-review process.
ACM SIGMOD Test‑of‑Time Award
Recognizes the paper with the greatest impact over the preceding decade. Citation: "For advancing time-series clustering through a shape-based approach, achieving a distinctive synthesis of high accuracy, computational efficiency, and broad-domain applicability."
"Best Runner Up Demo" Award, IEEE ICDE 2024
Recognizes the best demos of the 40th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering.
IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award
Recognizes internationally an individual's work in the first five years after the Ph.D. degree. Citation: "For breakthroughs in time series data management, as well as contributions to adaptive methodologies for data intensive and machine learning applications."
"Best Reviewer" Award, ACM SIGKDD 2023
Recognizes reviewers for "their very hard and conscientious work."
"Best of VLDB 2022"
Recognizes the best papers published at the 48th International Conference on Very Large Databases.
ACM SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention
Recognizes internationally "outstanding doctoral dissertations in the areas of data science, machine learning, and data mining."
NetApp Faculty Award
Recognizes faculty "pursuing cutting‐edge research in data management." (First time awarded to a postdoc.)
Front page of The New York Times covers our research
The New York Times covers our study on building a screening solution for devastating diseases using Web search logs.
ISSI "Paper of the Year" Award, Finalist
Recognizes "high quality research in the field of Scientometrics and Informetrics."
ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award
Recognizes projects across premier database conferences that "exemplify core database research, address an important problem, represent a definitive milestone in solving the problem, and have the potential of significant impact."
"Best of ACM SIGMOD 2015"
Recognizes the best papers of the 2015 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data.
Fellowships and Scholarships
Paul Nichoplas Scholarship, Columbia University
Recognizes graduate or undergraduate students of Greek ancestry.
Alexander S. Onassis Foundation Fellowship
Recognizes Greek graduate students with an outstanding academic record. (3 CS Ph.D. fellows from 1000+ applications.)
Empirikion Foundation Scholarship
Recognizes Greek scholars in Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Engineering areas.
Gerondelis Scholarship
Recognizes students of Greek ancestry ranked at the top of their class.
A. G. Leventis Foundation Fellowship
Recognizes Greek graduate students in Social Sciences, Technology, Arts, Natural Sciences, Medical, and Business fields.
Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation Scholarship
Supports "cutting‐edge research in the fields of engineering."
The General Michael Arnaoutis Foundation Scholarship
Recognizes Greek undergraduate students in Computer Science and Engineering fields for post‐graduate studies abroad.
