| Anastasia Ailamaki | |
| Birth Place: | Cyprus |
| Nationality: | Greek |
| Alma Mater: | University of Patras Technical University of Crete University of Rochester University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Field: | Computer science |
| Work Institutions: | Carnegie Mellon University École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
Anastasia Ailamaki is a Professor[1] of Computer Sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and the Director of the Data-Intensive Applications and Systems (DIAS) lab. She is also the co-founder of RAW Labs SA, a Swiss company developing real-time analytics infrastructures for heterogeneous big data. Formerly, she was an associate professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science.[2]
Ailamaki's research interests are in the broad area of database systems and applications, with emphasis on database system behavior on modern processor hardware and disks.
Ailamaki studied computer science at the University of Patras, and earned her first master's degree at the Technical University of Crete followed by a second diploma from the University of Rochester. She received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000.[3]
She is the recipient of ten Best Paper and Best Demo awards and was awarded Young Investigator Award by the European Science Foundation. In 2013 she received an ERC Consolidator Award for the ViDa: Transforming raw data into information through virtualization project. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM, a member of Academia Europaea, and the Vice Chair of the Special Interest Group of Management of Data (SIGMOD) within the Association for Computing Machinery.[4] She is a member of the Expert Network of the World Economic Forum and CRA-W mentor.
Ailamaki is the author of over 200 peer-reviewed articles published in such journals as the Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research, VLDB, SIGMOD, ACM Transactions on Database Systems.