Neoklis (Alkis) Polyzotis Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of California - Santa Cruz 1156 High St. Santa Cruz CA, 95064 Office: E2 #353 Phone: 831-459-1304 e-mail: alkis@cs.ucsc.edu Weekly schedule for current quarter

Research

I am associated with the Database Systems Group at UC Santa Cruz. My research focuses on database systems and more specifically on approximation techniques for semi-structured data, on-line database tuning, and data management in peer-to-peer systems.

Current projects:

• Approximation Techniques for Semi-Structured Data
• Data Ring

Students I do research with:

• Veronica Mayorga (PhD)
• Karl Schnaitter (PhD)
• Gloria Chatzopoulou (MSc)
• Jonathan Finger (MSc)
• Jyotsna Gangwar (MSc)

Previous Students:

• Josh Spiegel (MSc)
• Stephen Moss (Undergraduate)
• Nils Frantzell (Undergraduate)
• Aurash Mahbod (Undergraduate)
• Deepavali Bhagwat (MSc)

You can access my publications from dblp or the database group server.

Teaching

• CMPS181: Database Systems II, Spring 2008
• CMPS278: Database Systems II, Spring 2008

• CMPS 181: Database Systems II (Spring 2005, Spring 2006 , Spring 2007 )
• CMPS 278: Database Systems II (Winter 2005,Winter 2006, Spring 2007)
• CMPS 180: Database Systems ( Winter 2004 , Winter 2005, Fall 2005, Winter 2007,Winter 2008 )
• CMPS 290H: XML Databases (Spring 2004)

Bio

Education:

• Ph.D. Computer Sciences, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 2003.
• M.Sc. Computer Sciences, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 2000.
• Diploma: Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece, 1997.

• Current/Upcoming
  • VLDB '08 PhD Workshop - Co-Chair
  • WIDM'08 - Co-Chair
  • CIKM'08 - PC Member
  • ICDM'08 - PC Member
  • ICDE'09 - PC Member
  • EDBT'09 - Demonstrations PC Member
  • SIGMOD'09 - PC Member
  • VLDB'09 - Demonstration PC Co-Chair
• Past Service...

Misc

• Roots.
• Greek mythology
• Something completely different
• The epitome of life