Ioannis Papapanagiotou

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Ioannis Papapanagiotou is a director of engineering working building a modern Blockchain Platform at Gemini. Ioannis is also a research assistant professor at the University of New Mexico. He holds a dual Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering and Operations Research. His main focus is on data platforms, cloud computing, and corporate culture. In the past, Ioannis served as the senior manager of the Services organization at Snowflake supporting the cores services of the Snowflake's Data Cloud. Prior to that, Ioannis was a senior manager at Netflix's Data Platform building from ground up the storage and data integrations team and also serving as the leader of the key/value stores and database streaming infrastructure. Ioannis has served in the faculty ranks of Purdue University (tenure-track) and NC State University, and was an engineer at IBM and a mentor to several startups. He has been awarded the NetApp faculty fellowship and established an Nvidia CUDA Research Center at Purdue University. Ioannis has also received the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship, Academy of Athens Ph.D. Fellowship for his Ph.D. research, and best paper awards in several IEEE conferences for his academic contributions. Ioannis has authored a number of research articles and patents. Ioannis is a senior member of ACM and IEEE.

Affiliation

Education

  • PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering, NC State University (2012)

  • PhD in Operations Research, NC State University (2012)

  • MSc in Computer Performance Engineering, from Electrical & Computer Engineering, NC State University (2009)

  • Dipl. Ing in Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Patras (5-years degree - 2006)

Research Interests

  • Cloud Computing & Distributed Systems

  • Databases, Data Platforms, Data Integrations, Data Streaming & Cloud Storage

  • Blockchain Platforms

For my research work, see Google Scholar, publications, or research statement.

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