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Colloquium Coordinator: Demetris Zeinalipour
Distinguished FPAS Lecture Series: Data Systems Reimagined: Real-Time Intelligence for a Heterogeneous Future, Prof. Anastasia Ailamaki (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland), Monday, June 30, 2025, 18:00-19:00 EEST.
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus cordially invites you to the Distinguished FPAS Lecture Series entitled:
Data Systems Reimagined: Real-Time Intelligence for a Heterogeneous Future
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Speaker: Prof. Anastasia Ailamaki |
Abstract:
Modern data management systems are entering a new era, shaped by the convergence of AI techniques and increasingly heterogeneous, unpredictable hardware. Traditional systems, built on fixed assumptions about workloads and resources, struggle to deliver efficiency and reliability in this shifting landscape. To keep pace, systems must evolve to make more real-time, data-driven decisions — from access strategies to resource allocation and performance tuning. This talk explores how AI can enable adaptive, self-optimizing behavior in data systems, and how hardware diversity both challenges and motivates this shift. We argue that embracing adaptability is not optional but foundational for the next generation of data-intensive applications.
Short Bio:
Anastasia Ailamaki is a Professor of Computer and Communication Sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), a visiting researcher at Google, and the co-founder and Chair of the Board of Directors of RAW Labs SA, a Swiss company developing systems to analyze heterogeneous big data from multiple sources efficiently. She earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000. She has received the 2019 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award and the 2020 VLDB Women in Database Research Award. She is also the recipient of an ERC Consolidator Award (2013), the Finmeccanica endowed chair from the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon (2007), a European Young Investigator Award from the European Science Foundation (2007), an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2005), an NSF CAREER award (2002), twelve best-paper awards and three Test-of-Time prizes at international scientific conferences. She has received the 2018 Nemitsas Prize in Computer Science by the President of Cyprus and the 2021 ARGO Innovation Award by the President of the Hellenic Republic. She is an ACM fellow, an IEEE fellow, a member of the Academia Europaea, and an elected member of the Swiss, the Belgian, the Greek, and the Cypriot National Research Councils.
