Yannis Papakonstantinou serves on the Faculty of Computer Science
and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, since 1996. His
research is in the intersection of database and Internet technologies.
Yannis has published over fourty five research articles in scientific
conferences and journals, given tutorials at major conferences, and served
on journal editorial boards and program committees for numerous
international conferences and symposiums. He was the co-Chair of WebDB 2002,
is the General Chair of ACM SIGMOD 2003 and the Vice PC Chair for the ``XML,
Metadata and Semistructured Data" track of IEEE ICDE 2004. In 1998, Yannis
received the NSF CAREER award for his work on integrating heterogeneous
data. In 2000 Yannis founded Enosys Software, which built the first
generally available distributed XQuery processor, along with software for
XML-based integration of distributed sources. Yannis holds a Diploma of
Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and
MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University (1997).