Minos Garofalakis is a Senior Research Scientist with Intel Research Berkeley. He obtained his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998, and joined Intel Research in July 2005, after spending 6.5 years as a Member of Technical Staff with Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ. His current research interests include data streaming, approximate query processing, and XML databases. In addition to serving on a number of program committees for conferences in the data-management area, Minos also currently serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, and will be the Core Database Technology PC Chair for the upcoming VLDB'2007 Conference in Vienna, Austria.