John's

Awards, Honors, and Achievements

2026
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.

2025
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."

2024
"Best Runner Up Demo" Award, IEEE ICDE 2024

Recognizes the best demos of the 40th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering.

2023
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."

2022
"Best of VLDB 2022"

Recognizes the best papers published at the 48th International Conference on Very Large Databases.

2019
ACM SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention

Recognizes internationally "outstanding doctoral dissertations in the areas of data science, machine learning, and data mining."

2018
NetApp Faculty Award

Recognizes faculty "pursuing cutting‐edge research in data management." (First time awarded to a postdoc.)

2016
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."

2015
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

2016
Paul Nichoplas Scholarship, Columbia University

Recognizes graduate or undergraduate students of Greek ancestry.

2014
Alexander S. Onassis Foundation Fellowship

Recognizes Greek graduate students with an outstanding academic record. (3 CS Ph.D. fellows from 1000+ applications.)

2013
Empirikion Foundation Scholarship

Recognizes Greek scholars in Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Engineering areas.

2012
Gerondelis Scholarship

Recognizes students of Greek ancestry ranked at the top of their class.

2011
A. G. Leventis Foundation Fellowship

Recognizes Greek graduate students in Social Sciences, Technology, Arts, Natural Sciences, Medical, and Business fields.

2010
Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation Scholarship

Supports "cutting‐edge research in the fields of engineering."

2009
The General Michael Arnaoutis Foundation Scholarship

Recognizes Greek undergraduate students in Computer Science and Engineering fields for post‐graduate studies abroad.