Honors and Awards

2020 VLDB Women in Database Research Award

Professor Ailamaki is the recipient of the 2020 VLDB Women in Database Research Award. This award recognizes a woman researcher who has made significant technical contributions to the field and is considered a leader in the database research community.

2019 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award

Professor Ailamaki is the recipient of the 2019 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award for her pioneering work on the architecture of database systems, its interaction with computer architecture, and scientific data management.

2019 EDBT Test of Time Award

Ryan Johnson, Ippokratis Pandis, Nikos Hardavellas, Anastasia Ailamaki, Babak Falsafi. Shore-MT: a scalable storage manager for the multicore era“. (In ACM Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT’09) Pages 24-35)

PhD Thesis Awards

2019 Eurosys Roger Needham PhD Award, Manolis Karpathiotakis, Just-in-time Analytics Over Heterogeneous Data and Hardware

2018 Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation award, Manolis Karpathiotakis, Just-in-time Analytics Over Heterogeneous Data and Hardware

2016 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention), Pinar Tözün, Transactions Chasing Scalability and Instruction Locality on Multicores

2012 ACM SIGMOD Doctoral Dissertation Award, Ryan Johnson, Scalable storage managers for the multicore era

Best Paper Awards

Best Paper Award, ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL), Redondo Beach, California, USA, November 2017.

Best Paper Award, 17th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2012

Best Paper Award, Fourth USENIX Conference on File and Storage (FAST), San Francisco, California, December 2005.

  Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Boston, MA, April 2004.

Best Paper Award, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) PhD Workshop, Berlin, Germany, September 2003.

Best Paper Award, IFIP International Symposium on Computer Model­ing, Measurement and Evaluation (Performance), Roma, Italy, September 2002.

Best Paper Award, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Roma, Italy, September 2001.

Other Paper Awards

 Best of DaMoN 2017, Thirteen International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware, Chicago, USA May 2017.

Best Demonstration Awards

Best Demonstration Award, ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Houston, Texas, USA, June 2018.

Best Demonstration Award, ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Athens, Greece, June 2011.

Best Demonstration Award, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Atlanta, GA, April 2006.

Teaching Assistant Awards

Stella Giannakopoulou, 2018

Mirjana Pavlovic, 2018

Matthaios-Alexandros Olma, 2016 & 2017

Manolis Karpathiotakis, 2016

Manos Athanassoulis, 2013

Fellowships

2020 Facebook Fellowship, Panagiotis Sioulas

2017 MSR PhD Fellowship, Utku Sirin

2015 IBM PhD Fellowship, Manos Karpathiotakis

2014 Symantec Research Lab Graduate Fellowship, Ioannis Alagiannis

2011 IBM PhD Fellowship, Manos Athanassoulis

Professor Anastasia Ailamaki

NEMITSAS Prize 2018 in Computer Science

IEEE Fellow “for contributions to hardware-conscious database systems and scientific data management”, since 01/2018

ACM Fellow “For contributions to the design, implementation, and evaluation of modern database systems”, since 01/2015

Elected Vice Chair, ACM SIGMOD Executive Committee (2013-2017)

European Young Investigator Award from the European Science Foundation, 2007

Finmeccanica fellowship from Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon, 2007

Sloan Research Fellowship, February 2005

NSF Faculty Early CAREER Award (CAREER), 2002

IBM University Faculty Partnership Award, 2001-02, 2002-03, 2003-04

Carnegie Mellon University Berkman Faculty Development Award, 2001

University of Wisconsin – Madison Anthony C. Klug NCR Graduate Fellowship in Database Systems, 1998-2000

  • Ranked 3rd in the 2nd Panhellenic Mathematics Olympiad. Athens, Greece, 1985
  • Honor medal in the 3nd Panbalcanic Mathematics Olympiad. Sofia, Bulgaria, 1985.