Recent News

Apr 11, 2017:

Real-time intermodal transit information available in Oakland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article about our Pitt Smart Living project. #news

Apr 7, 2017:

Press release from the Oakland Business Improvement District about our Pitt Smart Living project. #news

Apr 1, 2017:

I have been promoted to Professor of Computer Science (in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences). #news

Dec 5, 2016:

New paper: ARGO: Architecture-Aware Graph Partitioning by Angen Zheng, Alexandros Labrinidis, Panos K. Chrysanthis, and Jack Lange. Published in the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2016), Washington, D.C, December 5-8, 2016. #papers

Oct 28, 2016:

The new School of Computing and Information has just been approved by the University of Pittsburgh Board of Trustees. Starts operations July 1, 2017; first students admitted Fall 2017. Press Release #news

Sep 30, 2016:

Cory Thoma successfully defended his PhD proposal (Towards Scalable, Cloud-Based, Confidential Data Stream Processing). #students

Sep 23, 2016:

My Data Witchcraft course can now satisfy the Quantitative and Formal Reasoning General Education requirement for Arts & Sciences.#teaching

Sep 1, 2016:

New NSF Award: Appraisal of Subgrid Scale Closures in Reacting Turbulence via DNS Big Data. With Peyman Givi (PI), Panos Chrysanthis, and Bill Layton.#research

Aug 4, 2016:

Angen Zheng successfully defended his PhD proposal (Architecture-Aware Graph (Re)Partitioning). #students

May 25, 2016:

I am the Sponsorship Chair of IEEE ICDE 2017, to be held in San Diego, California, April 19-22, 2017. #service

May 19, 2016:

I am on the Program Committee of HDMS 2016 -- due date May 30, 2016. #service

May 12, 2016:

Elected to the Computer Usage Committee of the University Senate (July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2019) [University Times]. #service

Apr 20, 2016:

New paper: PolyStream: Cryptographically Enforced Access Controls for Outsourced Data Stream Processing by Cory Thoma, Adam J. Lee, and Alexandros Labrinidis. Published in the 21st ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), Shanghai, China, June 6-8, 2016. #papers

Apr 8, 2016:

PHDs_supervised++;    Thao Pham successfully defended her PhD dissertation (Exploiting the synergy between scheduling and load shedding to facilitate differentiated levels of service for continuous queries). #students

Apr 4, 2016:

List and schedule of ACM SIGMOD 2016 tutorials is posted. #service

Feb 23, 2016:

I am on the Program Committee of the IEEE eScience 2016 conference -- due date May 16/23, 2016. #service

Feb 19, 2016:

Giving a talk at the Computer Systems Seminar on Architecture-Aware (Big) Graph Repartitioning. #talks

Feb 5, 2016:

I am on the Program Committee of the IEEE BigData 2016 conference -- due date July 25, 2016. #service

Feb 4, 2016:

I am on the Program Committee of ACM DEBS 2016 (Poster and Demo Track) -- due date March 30, 2016. #service

Feb 3, 2016:

New paper: Planar: Parallel Lightweight Architecture-Aware Adaptive Graph Repartitioning by Angen Zheng, Alexandros Labrinidis, and Panos K. Chrysanthis. Published in the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), May 16-20, 2016. #papers

Jan 27, 2016:

I am on the Program Committee of ACM SIGMOD 2017 (to be held May 14-19, 2017). Due dates for research papers will be July 15/22, 2016 and November 4/11, 2016. #service

Jan 25, 2016:

I am on the Program Committee of VLDB 2017 (to be held August 28 - September 1, 2017). Due dates on the first of every month, from April 2016 to March 2017. #service

Jan 22, 2016:

New paper: PARAGON: Parallel Architecture-Aware Graph Partition Refinement Algorithm by Angen Zheng, Alexandros Labrinidis, Patrick H. Pisciuneri, Panos K. Chrysanthis, and Peyman Givi. Published in the 19th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, March 15-18, 2016. #papers

Dec 17, 2015:

The Call for Tutorials for the 2016 ACM SIGMOD Conference is out (Deadline: Feb 3, 2016). #service

Dec 3, 2015:

Our paper: Big Data and Its Technical Challenges (CACM, July 2014) has surpassed 10,000 downloads from the ACM Digital Library! Companion web site at db.cs.pitt.edu/bigdata/resources #papers

Nov 12, 2015:

New paper: Avoiding class warfare: managing continuous queries with differentiated classes of service by Thao Pham, Panos K. Chrysanthis, and Alexandros Labrinidis. Published in the VLDB Journal, 2015.#papers

Oct 24, 2015:

I am the Tutorials Chair for the 2016 ACM SIGMOD Conference. #service

Sep 1, 2015:

I joined the Editorial Board of the VLDB Journal, as an Associate Editor.#service

Aug 31, 2015:

I am now a member of the Senate Council of the University of Pittsburgh. #service

Aug 31, 2015:

New paper: Processing of Aggregate Continuous Queries in a Distributed Environment by Anatoli U. Shein, Panos K. Chrysanthis, and Alexandros Labrinidis, presented at BIRTE 2015, held in conjunction with VLDB 2015. #papers

Aug 24, 2015:

I am staring my visit at Carnegie Mellon University as part of my sabbatical leave, hosted by Christos Faloutsos. My office is GHC 8125.#news

Aug 14, 2015:

New paper: Stream Query Processing on Emerging Memory Architectures by Mafrica, Johnson, Bock, Pham, Childers, Chrysanthis, and Labrinidis, presented at NVMSA 2015. #papers

Aug 4, 2015:

New paper: F1: Accelerating the optimization of Aggregate Continuous Queries by Anatoli U. Shein, Panos K. Chrysanthis, and Alexandros Labrinidis, to be presented at CIKM 2015. #papers

Jul 31, 2015:

Participating in the round-table discussion on the Beckman Database Research Self-Assessment Meeting in the 13th Hellenic Data Management Symposium (HDMS 2015). #panels

Jul 30, 2015:

Presented our CE-Storm system ( CE-Storm: Confidential Elastic Processing of Data Streams) in the 13th Hellenic Data Management Symposium (HDMS 2015). #demos

Jul 8, 2015:

Participating in the Panel on ``Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering vs Big Data'' of the 27th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering #panels

Jun 9, 2015:

New paper: Focused crawling for the hidden web by Panagiotis Liakos, Alexandros Ntoulas, Alexandros Labrinidis, and Alex Delis, published in the World Wide Web Journal. #papers

Jun 1, 2015:

If you are attending, ACM SIGMOD 2015, come see our demo: CE-Storm: Confidential Elastic Processing of Data Streams on Wednesday (10:30am - 12:10pm) or Thursday (3:40 - 5:20pm) #demos

May 26, 2015:

New paper: Unifying Qualitative and Quantitative Database Preferences to Enhance Query Personalization by Roxana Gheorghiu, Alexandros Labrinidis, Panos K. Chrysanthis, presented at ExploreDB 2015. #papers

May 26, 2015:

New paper: Preferential Diversity by Xiaoyu Ge, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Alexandros Labrinidis, presented at ExploreDB 2015. #papers

May 1, 2015:

New demo paper: CE-Storm: Confidential Elastic Processing of Data Streams by Nick Katsipoulakis, Cory Thoma, Eric Gratta, Alexandros Labrinidis, Adam Lee, Panos Chrysanthis, to be demonstrated at ACM SIGMOD 2015. #papers

Mar 2, 2015:

New paper: CryptStream: Cryptographic Access Controls for Streaming Data (short paper), by Cory Thoma, Adam Lee, and Alexandros Labrinidis, presented at ACM CODASPY 2015. #papers

Jan 8, 2015:

Gave a talk at IBM Almaden on Handling Big Streaming Data with DILoS. #talks

Jan 5, 2015:

Attended CIDR 2015 in Asilomar, California. My presentation at the Gong Show: the slides (pdf, slideshare) and the paper (pdf). #conferences

Dec 5, 2014:

Gave a talk at HP Labs on Handling Big Streaming Data with DILoS. #talks

Nov 21, 2014:

New paper: The Big Data - Same Humans Problem (extended abstract), to be presented at the CIDR 2015 Gong Show. #papers

Nov 15, 2014:

Giving a talk at the University of Glasgow's School of Computing Science on Handling Big Streaming Data with DILoS. #talks

Nov 14, 2014:

Gave a talk at the University of Edinburgh's Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science on Handling Big Streaming Data with DILoS [info].#talks

Oct 29, 2014:

Gave a talk at Georgetown University's Department of Computer Science on Handling Big Streaming Data with DILoS [abstract].#talks

Oct 27, 2014:

New paper: Architecture-Aware Graph Repartitioning for Data-Intensive Scientific Computing, by Angen Zheng, Alexandros Labrinidis, and Panos K. Chrysanthis, published in the Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on High Performance Big Graph Data Management, Analysis, and Mining (held in conjunction with IEEE BigData 2014).#papers

Oct 23, 2014:

New paper: A user-friendly framework for database preferences, by Roxana Gheorghiu, Alexandros Labrinidis, and Panos K. Chrysanthis, published in the Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2014).#papers

Oct 9, 2014:

Excited to be a part of the Center for Causal Modeling and Discovery of Biomedical Knowledge from Big Data (CCMD), which is one of the 12 new Centers of Excellence funded through NIH's Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) program [NIH press release, CCMD award information at NIH, UPitt press release, Pittsburgh Business Times article, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article, Tribune-Review article].#research

Oct 8, 2014:

Gave a talk at our Department's Undergraduate Research Symposium. Talk was entitled ``User-Centric Data Management in the Era of Big Data'' [slides].#talks

Sep 18, 2014:

PHDs_supervised++;    Roxana Gheorghiu's PhD dissertation, entitled Unifying Qualitative and Quantitative Database Preferences to Enhance Query Personalization, is officially approved.#students

Aug 20, 2014:

I participated in the discussion on Building a More Resilient Pittsburgh that was organized by the City of Pittsburgh, as part of the City's application for the 100 Resilient Cities Challenge. [video]#pittsburgh

Jul 25, 2014:

Attended the 12th Hellenic Data Management Symposium and participated in the panel, ``Big Data from a DB researcher's point of view: hype or opportunity?'' [slides] #panels

Jul 1, 2014:

New paper: Big Data and Its Technical Challenges, published in the Communications of the ACM (July 2014 -- DOI: 10.1145/2611567). The paper has a companion web site at db.cs.pitt.edu/bigdata/resources. #papers

Jun 25, 2014:

Call for Research papers for ACM SIGMOD 2015 is out -- I am a Group Leader in the Program Committee.#service

Jun 24, 2014:

Attended ACM SIGMOD 2014 in Snowbird, Utah.#conferences

May 30, 2014:

Roxana Gheorghiu, passed her PhD dissertation defense. Her dissertation is entitled Unifying Qualitative and Quantitative Database Preferences to Enhance Query Personalization.#students

May 21, 2014:

Gave a talk at the University of Waterloo DB group on Handling Big Streaming Data with DILoS [abstract, slides, video].#talks

May 1, 2014:

I was elected to the Faculty Assembly, as a representative of the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, Natural Sciences Division [UTimes article].#service