Archive News
Celebrating 25 years as a proud UMass, Amherst PhD graduate (1991); Celebrating 25 years as a professor at Pitt (1991-2016).
[09/2016]
Honorary Visiting Professor of Computer Science
at the University of Diaspora of the University of Cyprus.
[6/2016]
Keynote Speaker at JCMIT 2016.
[06/2016]
Program Co-Chair of The 10th International Workshop on Enabling Real-Time Business Intelligence (BIRTE 2016) co-located with VLDB 2016 in New Delhi, India.
[01/2016]
On sabbatical at Carnegie Mellon
University, Jan - Aug 2016.
[01/2016]
Received the Provost's Award for Excellence in Mentoring for 2015, University of Pittsburgh.
[04/2015]
Appointed as Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
at the University of Cyprus, Jan 2009 - Jan 2010
[12/2008]
I have been elected as ACM Senior Member, Sept 2007
[12/2008]
"Energy and the Third Law of Compu-Dynamics: From
Mobility to Pervasiveness"
Keynote Speaker at the 5th Hellenic Data Management Symposium (HDMS 2005)
held in Thessaloniki on 7-8 September 2006.
[09/2006]
On sabbatical -- Visiting Professor of Computer Science
at the University of Cyprus, September 2006 - June 2007
[08/2006]
Elected as IEEE Senior Member, June 2006
[07/2006]
Participated in the Dagstuhl Seminar 05421 "Data Always and Everywhere
- Management of Mobile, Ubiquitous, Pervasive, and Sensor Data" on
(16.10.2005-21.10.2005) [11/2005]
Officially Promoted to the rank of Professor on 1-1-2004 at 00:00:00
[01/2004]
Secure CITI:
A Secure Critical Information Technology Infrastructure for Disaster Management. Our collaborative project with Pitt's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
has just been awarded an NSF ITR Medium Award (ANI-0325353).
[10/2003]
ICDT 2003
"Characterizing the Temporal and Semantic Coherency of Broadcast-based Data Dissemination" with Evaggelia Pitoura and Krithi Ramamritham, International Conference on Database Theory [11/2002]
Became Editor of VLDB Journal (2001-2007)....more work to do.
[09/2001]
Back from my sabbatical as Adjunct Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon
University,
after spending a wonderful year as a visiting professor there.
[09/2000]