Herodotos Herodotou
Associate Professor
Cyprus
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Top SchoolHerodotos Herodotou is an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering and Informatics at Cyprus University of Technology with 15 years of experience in large-scale data processing and database systems. He earned a Ph.D. from Duke University for work on self-tuning systems for big data—recognized with a SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award honorable mention—and later brought that expertise to Microsoft Research as a Senior Research SDE focused on cloud-scale data analytics. His research centers on automated tuning, manageability and performance optimization across centralized and distributed data-intensive platforms, and he applies these techniques to domains from maritime and tourism to bioinformatics and environmental science. A practitioner as well as an academic, he has built production-facing optimizers for Apache Pig and contributed optimizations to PostgreSQL during industry internships, reflecting a consistent thread of turning database theory into practical tools.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Duke UniversityUMBC
Greek, English
Github Skills (7)
big-data-analytics3
analytics2
data-analytics2
kafka2
spark2
hadoop2
big-data2
Github contributions (1)
mostafa-ead/Starfish
Apr 2011 - Sep 2011
Contributions:12 commits in 5 months
data-analyticsanalyticsknobsworkloadsbuilds
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