Keynote Lectures
Keynote Lecture
Mona Diab, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Scalable Vector Analytics: A Story of Twists and Turns
Themis Palpanas, University Paris Cite, France
Keynote Lecture
Mona Diab
Carnegie Mellon University
United States
Brief Bio
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Scalable Vector Analytics: A Story of Twists and Turns
Themis Palpanas
University Paris Cite
France
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Brief Bio
Themis Palpanas is an elected Senior Member of the French University
Institute (IUF), a distinction that recognizes excellence across all
academic disciplines, and Distinguished Professor of computer science
at the University Paris Cite (France), where he is director of the Data
Intelligence Institute of Paris (diiP), and director of the data
management group, diNo. He received the BS degree from the National
Technical University of Athens, Greece, and the MSc and PhD degrees from
the University of Toronto, Canada. He has previously held positions at
the University of California at Riverside, University of Trento, and at
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and visited Microsoft Research, and
the IBM Almaden Research Center.
His interests include problems related to data science (big data
analytics and machine learning applications). He is the author of 11 US
patents (3 of which have been implemented in world-leading commercial
data management products), and 2 French patents. He is the recipient of
3 Best Paper awards, and the IBM Shared University Research (SUR) Award.
He is currently serving on the VLDB Endowment Board of Trustees, and as
an Editor-in-Chief for the PVLDB Journal for 2024-2025. He has served as
Editor-in-Chief for the BDR Journal, as General Chair for VLDB 2013,
Associate Editor for the TKDE journal and for VLDB 2022, 2019 and 2017,
Research PC Vice Chair for ICDE 2020, and Workshop Chair for EDBT 2016,
ADBIS 2013, and ADBIS 2014, General Chair for the PDA@IOT International
Workshop (in conjunction with VLDB 2014), and General Chair for the
Event Processing Symposium 2009.