Alkis Simitsis

Alkis Simitsis

Research Director
Email:
alkis@athenarc.gr
Phone:
+302106875403
Dr. Alkis Simitsis is a Research Director at Athena Research Center and an IEEE Senior Member. In the past, he held various positions with HP/HPE Labs, Micro Focus, Unravel Data, and IBM Research, including Chief Scientist, Systems Architect, and Principal Research Scientist. Alkis brings 18+ years of critical experience in both startup and corporate environments, building innovative information and data management solutions and enterprise-grade products in areas such as scalable big data infrastructure, data-intensive analytics, information management, business intelligence, massively parallel processing, distributed databases, column-store databases, graph databases, security analytics, and cloud computing.
Alkis holds 43 U.S. patents and has filed 50+ patent applications in the U.S. and worldwide, has published 110+ papers in refereed international journals and conferences (top publications cited 6500+ times, h-index: 43), and frequently serves in various roles in program committees of top-tier international scientific conferences. He is the recipient of several recognitions and awards, such as 2021 ACM SIGMOD Distinguished PC, 2020 Best ACM CIKM Demo Award, 2012 and 2014 Best ACM SIGMOD Demo Award, the 1st prize of diploma thesis by the Greek Technical Chamber (2000), the Thomaides' prize for the progress of science and art (2001, 2003), and awards from the European Union and the Greek Ministry of Education (2005) and the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (2001, 2002).