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Minos Garofalakis / Μίνως Γαροφαλάκης

Professor / Καθηγητής

Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering
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). 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 a Senior Member of the ACM, 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.