Anastasia Ailamaki - Biography#

Anastasia Ailamaki is a Professor of Computer and Communication Sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and the co-founder of RAW Labs SA, a swiss company developing real-time analytics infrastructures for heterogeneous big data. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000. She works on strengthening the interaction between the database software and emerging hardware and I/O devices, and on automating data management to support computationally-demanding, data-intensive scientific applications. She has received the 2019 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award and the VLDB 2020 Women in Databases Award. She is also the recipient of an ERC Consolidator Award (2013), a 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), and ten best-paper awards in database, storage, and computer architecture conferences. She is an ACM fellow, an IEEE fellow, the Laureate for the 2018 Nemitsas Prize in Computer Science, and an elected member of the Swiss, the Belgian, and the Cypriot National Research Councils. She is a member of the Academia Europaea and of the Expert Network of the World Economic Forum.