Minos Garofalakis / Μίνως ΓαροφαλάκηςProfessor & Chair, Department of Electronic & Computer EngineeringDirector, 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 meI 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 homepage, ACM author profile, LinkedIn profile.
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