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Phokion G. Kolaitis
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Title
Distinguished Research Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Computer Science and Engineering
Department
Computer Science and Engineering
Telephone Number
831-459-4768
Office Location
Engineering 2, Room 345A
Mail Stop
SOE3
Biography
Phokion Kolaitis is a Distinguished Research Professor at UC Santa Cruz and a Principal Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center. Kolaitis is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, and the recipient of a 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship. He is also the recipient of two IBM Research Division Outstanding Innovation Awards, an IBM Research Division Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, a co-winner of the 2013 ICDT Test-of-Time Award, a co-winner of both the 2008 and the 2014 ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award, and a co-winner of the 2020 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation. In 2014, Kolaitis was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree (Doctor Honoris Causa) from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Research Areas
Principles of database systems, logic in computer science, computational complexity
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Students
Vishal Chakraborty (Graduate)
Zehui Cheng (Graduate)
Akhil Dixit (Graduate)
Alumni
Ian Barland (Alumni)
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