George Kollios received his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering
in 1995 from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece; and the
M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Polytechnic University,
New York in 1998 and 2000 respectively. He is currently an Associate
Professor in the Computer Science Department at Boston University in
Boston, Massachusetts. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and his
research is supported by NSF and other agencies. He also received a Best
Paper Award in IEEE ICDE 2004 for his paper with title ``Approximate
Aggregation Techniques for Sensor Databases''. Prof. Kollios is the General
Chair for the SSTD 2007, a Co-Organizer of the IDM NSF workshop for 2004,
and he served as the local arrangements chair for SSDBM 2003 and IEEE ICDE
2004. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and
Data Engineering
and has served in many technical program committees for top database and
data mining conferences including VLDB, IEEE ICDE, ICML, and IEEE ICDM and
has been a reviewer for top journals including IEEE TKDE, ACM TODS, VLDB
Journal, and Information Systems. He is a member of ACM and IEEE Computer
Society.
Areas of interest:
Databases, Data Mining, Secure Data Management, Multimedia Indexing,
Stream and Sensor Data Management, Spatio-temporal Databases
