LAB COORDINATOR

Herodotos Herodotou, Ph.D.

Dr. Herodotos Herodotou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering and Informatics at the Cyprus University of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University in May 2012. His Ph.D. dissertation work received the ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention as well as the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Computer Science at Duke. Before joining CUT, he held research positions at Microsoft Research, Yahoo! Labs, and Aster Data, as well as software engineering positions at Microsoft and RWD Technologies. His research interests include large-scale Data Processing Systems and Database Systems. In particular, his work focuses on ease of use, manageability, and automated tuning of both centralized and distributed data-intensive computing systems. In addition, he is interested in applying database and dataflow system techniques in other domains like maritime, tourism, energy, social computing, environment, scientific computing, and bioinformatics. His research work has been published in several top scientific conferences and journals (e.g., PVLDB, SIGMOD, SoCC, CIDR), four books, and two book chapters.

Awards and Honors

AWS Cloud Credits for Research Grant, Amazon Web Services, October 2022
AWS Cloud Credits for Research Grant, Amazon Web Services, July 2018
ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention, June 2013
Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Computer Science, Duke University, Sept 2012
AWS Education Research Grant, Amazon Web Services, Dec 2010, June 2009
Steele Endowed Fellowship, Duke University, Spring 2008
Duke University Research Assistantship Award, Fall 2007 – Spring 2012
Cyprus-America Fulbright Scholarship, Fall 2003 – Spring 2007
UMBC President's Scholar Award (Scholarship), Fall 2003 – Spring 2007

Keynotes and Invited Talks

“Towards a Hybrid Cloud & Edge Orchestrator for Mining Exascale Distributed Streams”. Keynote speech at the 10^th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC ’23) in Larnaca, Cyprus, October 2023.
“Employing Streaming Machine Learning to Automate Data Management in Multi-tiered Storage Systems”. Invited Speaker at Huawei Next Generation Data Storage Architecture Innovation Forum 2023, Luzern, Switzerland, May 2023.
“Workload Scheduling and Data Prefetching in Big Data Platforms over Tiered Storage Systems”. Honored Speaker at Huawei Data Algorithm & Unstructured Data Storage Workshop 2022, Online, November 2022.
“Towards a Hybrid Cloud & Edge Orchestrator for Mining Exascale Distributed Streams”. Keynote speech at the 13^th IARIA International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization (Cloud Computing ’22) in Barcelona, Spain, April 2022.
“OctopusFS: Automating Distributed Tiered Storage Management in Cluster Computing”. Honored Speaker at Huawei Data Compression & Storage Systems Online Forum, November 2021.
“Automating Distributed Tiered Storage Management in Cluster Computing”. Invited talk at Computer Science Colloquium at University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, April 2021.
“Hihooi: A Database Replication Middleware for Scaling Transactional Databases Consistently”. Invited talk at the Advanced Data Management Technologies (ADMT) Lab at University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, March 2021.
“Automating Distributed Tiered Storage Management in Cluster Computing”. Invited talk at Massive Data, Algorithms, and Systems (MiDAS) Group at Boston University (BU), in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, December 2020.
“Automating Distributed Tiered Storage Management in Cluster Computing”. Invited talk at Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo (Telefónica I+D) in Barcelona, Spain, November 2019.
“A Comparison of Self-configuring Approaches for Big Data Analytics Systems”. Invited talk at the Data Management Day at the University of Cyprus (DMD@UCY) in Nicosia, Cyprus, June 2019.
“e-Now: An ocean supply chain”. Invited presentation and participation at the panel “#closerthanyouthink” of the 3^rd Cyprus Shipping Chamber e-Navigation Seminar (CSC) in Limassol, Cyprus, May 2019.
“Self-configuring Big Data Analytics Systems on the Cloud”. Keynote speech at the 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom ’18) in Nicosia, Cyprus, December 2018.
“Multi-tiered Storage Management for Cluster Computing”. Invited talk at the Gianforte School of Computing at Montana State University (MSU) in Bozeman, MT, USA, May 2017.
“Multi-tiered Storage Management for Cluster Computing”. Invited talk at the Data-Intensive Applications and Systems Laboratory of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, January 2017.
“The Beckman Database Research Self-Assessment Meeting”. Invited presentation and participation at the panel of the 13^th Hellenic Data Management Symposium (HDMS) in Athens, Greece, July 2015.
“Dataflow Systems for Large-scale Data Analytics”. Invited talk at the Computer Science Colloquium at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia, Cyprus, November 2014.
“Starfish: A MADDER and Self-tuning System for Big Data Analytics”. Invited talk at the MSR Talk Series at Microsoft Research in Redmond WA, USA, December 2011.
“Starfish: A Self-tuning System for Big Data Analytics”. Invited talk at the Scientific Group of the Product Development and Innovation Unit of Telefonica Digital in Barcelona, Spain, October 2011.
“Auto-optimized Execution of Pig Workflows”. Invited talk at the Web Information Management Group at Yahoo! Research in Santa Clara CA, USA, July 2011.

Editor Services

Guest Editor of Special Issue "Sensors and IoT Technologies for the Smart Industry" for Sensors, 2024/25
Guest Editor of Special Issue on "Self-managing and Hardware-optimizing Database systems 2022" for Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal (DAPD), 2022/23
Guest Editor of Special Issue on "Data-Intensive Computing in Smart Microgrids: Volume II" for Energies, 2022/23
Guest Editor of Special Issue on "Smart Grid Analytics for Sustainability and Urbanization in Big Data" for Sustainability, 2021/22
Lead Editor of Special Issue on "Self-managing and Hardware-optimizing Database systems 2020" for Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal (DAPD), 2020/21
Guest Editor of Special Issue on "Data-Intensive Computing in Smart Microgrids" for Energies, 2020/21

General Chair

IEEE International Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems, SMDB 2023, 2022
IEEE International Maritime Big Data Workshop, MBDW 2022

Program Committee Chair

IEEE International Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems, SMDB 2021, 2020, 2014
Hellenic Data Management Symposium, HDMS 2018

Vice/Track Program Committee Chair

Workshop Chair, EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services, MobiQuitous 2023
PhD Symposium Chair, International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, EuroPar 2023
Tutorial Chair, International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2023
Track Chair, Maritime Informatics, Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2021, 2020, 2019
Publicity Chair, International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT 2021
Vice Chair, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2020
Track Chair, Foundations of Data Science and Engineering, 46th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2020
Track Chair, Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE), International Symposium in Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing, CCGrid 2019

Program Committee Member

ACM International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2025, 2023, 2016
International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization, CLOUD 2025 - 2017
International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Demo 2024
International Workshop on Big Data Visual Exploration and Analytics, BigVis 2024, 2023
International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Apps and Cloud Services, WESOACS 2023, 2020, 2018
ACM International Conference on Management of Data Reproducibility, SIGMOD Repro 2022
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2022, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2013
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2019, 2018
International Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems, SMDB 2019
Hellenic Data Management Symposium, HDMS 2017, 2016
International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2016
Workshop on Cloud Data Management, CloudDM 2015
ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2013
Workshop on Management of Big Data Systems, MBDS 2012

Journal Reviewer

IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC) – 2024, 2023
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) – 2023, 2021, 2017, 2014, 2013
Springer Nature Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal (DAPD) – 2023, 2020, 2019
Cybernetics and Systems (UCBS) – 2023
Computer Standards & Interfaces (CSI) – 2022
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) – 2021, 2018, 2017, 2015-13, 2010
Oxford Academic – The Computer Journal (COMPJ) – 2021, 2020
IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD) – 2021
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE) – 2021
Journal of Systems Architecture: Embedded Software Design (JSA) - 2021
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) – 2017
International Journal on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB Journal) – 2015, 2014, 2013, 2011

Professional Memberships

Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering (TCDE)