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Minos Garofalakis  /  Μίνως Γαροφαλάκης

Professor & Chair,  Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering
Director,  Software Technology and Network Applications Lab (SoftNet)

ECE Department, Technical University of Crete
University Campus -- Kounoupidiana
73100 Chania, Hellas (Greece)
Tel: +30-28210-37211  ,  FAX: +30-28210-37542




About me

I am a Professor of Computer Science at the ECE Department of the Technical University of Crete in Chania, Greece, and the Director of the Software Technology and Network Applications Laboratory (SoftNet). I am also serving as the ECE Department Chair for the period 2011-2013. My current research interests lie in the areas of probabilistic data management, approximate query processing, data streaming, network management, data mining, and XML and text databases. I am an ACM Distinguished Scientist (2011), and a Member of the IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.

I am originally from the beautiful city of Chania on the island of Crete, Greece. (I guess that explains my first name.) I received my BSc (Valedictorian, School of Engineering) in 1992 from the University of Patras, Computer Engineering and Informatics Dept. (UOPCEID). I also spent the following year at UOPCEID as a post-graduate fellow. In the Fall of 1993, I joined the graduate program in Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where I received my MSc (1994) and PhD (1998) under the supervision of Prof. Yannis Ioannidis. I have worked as a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs (1998-2005), as a Senior Research Scientist at Intel Research Berkeley (2005-2007), and as a Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research (2007-2008). In parallel, I also held an Adjunct Associate Professor position at the EECS Department of the University of California, Berkeley (2006-2008), where I was part of the UC-Berkeley Database Group.

For more details, please see a brief third person bio, or a more detailed curriculum vitae (pdf).

Other points of web presence:  (Old) "Official" UC-Berkeley EECS homepageACM author profileLinkedIn profile.



new! Research funding available for PhD/MSc students  in
(1) Distributed Data Streams and P2P Systems ( LIFT FET-Open EU Project)
(2) Probabilistic Data Management ( HeisenData Marie-Curie EU Grant).
Please contact me if you're interested...




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