EDUCATION & WORK

HIGHLIGHTS

09/2026 I gave a keynote at ADBIS 2026 on "Query Optimization in the Wild". [slides]
08/2026 Our vision paper on "Rethinking Query Optimization for Multi-Agent Systems" got accepted at PVLDB 2027!
07/2026 I am one of the three finalists for the ITU research award!
06/2026 I will be speaking at the Apache Community over Code 2026 in Glasgow!
06/2026 Our talk at Berlin Buzzwords is online: Watch the video!
05/2026 I will be speaking about Apache Wayang at Berlin Buzzwords 2026!
03/2026 I will be a mentor for Apache Wayang at the Google Summer of Code 2026!
11/2025 Apache Wayang™ graduates to a top level project!
07/2025 Our tutorial proposal on learned cost models got accepted at VLDB 2025!
12/2023 Awarded with a Semper Ardens Accelerate grant from Carlsberg Foundation! The project aims at revolutionizing query optimization with ranking algorithms.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

(01/2023 - now) Associate professor at IT University of Copenhagen.
(02/2024 - 02/2026) Co-founder and Head of AI at Scalytics (part time).
(11/2019 - 12/2022) Senior researcher at DIMA of TU Berlin.
(11/2019 - 12/2022) Senior researcher at DIMA of TU Berlin.
(12/2014 - 10/2019) Scientist at Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI).
(11/2013 - 11/2014) Visiting researcher at IMIS of Athena Research Center.
(09/2011 - 10/2013) Postdoc at INRIA Saclay under the supervision of Ioana Manolescu.
(09/2008 - 08/2011) Research assistant in EU project SemsorGrid4Env.
(10/2007 - 03/2008) Research assistant in project Peer-to-Peer Techniques for Semantic Web Services.
(09/2004 - 08/2008) Research assistant in EU project Ontogrid.

EDUCATION

(04/2005 - 07/2011) PhD in Advanced Information Systems in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Thesis title: Distributed RDF Query Processing and Reasoning in Peer-to-Peer Networks
Supervisor: Manolis Koubarakis
(09/1999 - 07/2004) Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece.
Specialization: Computer Science
Thesis title: Prototype System to Manipulate and Store RDF Schemas
GPA: 8.3 out of 10
Supervisor: Timos Sellis

Zoi Kaoudi