Panos Kalnis is an associate professor in the Division of Mathematical
and Computer Sciences and Engineering in the King Abdullah University
of Science and Technology (KAUST). In 2009 he was a visiting assistant
professor in the Dept. of Computer Science, Stanford University. Before
that, he was an assistant professor in the Dept. of Computer Science,
National University of Singapore (NUS). In the past he was involved in
the designing and testing of VLSI chips in the Computer Technology
Institute, Greece. He also worked in several companies on database
designing, e-commerce projects and web applications. He received his
Diploma in Computer Engineering from the Computer Engineering and
Informatics Dept., University of Patras, Greece in 1998 and his PhD
from the Computer Science Dept., Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology (HKUST) in 2002. His research interests include Databases,
Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, Large Graphs and Data Privacy.