2020 VLDB Women in Database Research Award
Professor Ailamaki is the recipient of the 2020 VLDB Women in Database Research Award. This award recognizes a woman researcher who has made significant technical contributions to the field and is considered a leader in the database research community.
2019 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
Professor Ailamaki is the recipient of the 2019 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award for her pioneering work on the architecture of database systems, its interaction with computer architecture, and scientific data management.
2019 EDBT Test of Time Award
Ryan Johnson, Ippokratis Pandis, Nikos Hardavellas, Anastasia Ailamaki, Babak Falsafi. “Shore-MT: a scalable storage manager for the multicore era“. (In ACM Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT’09) Pages 24-35)
PhD Thesis Awards
2019 Eurosys Roger Needham PhD Award, Manolis Karpathiotakis, “Just-in-time Analytics Over Heterogeneous Data and Hardware”
2018 Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation award, Manolis Karpathiotakis, “Just-in-time Analytics Over Heterogeneous Data and Hardware”
2016 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention), Pinar Tözün, “Transactions Chasing Scalability and Instruction Locality on Multicores”
2012 ACM SIGMOD Doctoral Dissertation Award, Ryan Johnson, “Scalable storage managers for the multicore era”
Best Paper Awards
Best Paper Award, ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL), Redondo Beach, California, USA, November 2017.
Best Paper Award, 17th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2012
Best Paper Award, Fourth USENIX Conference on File and Storage (FAST), San Francisco, California, December 2005.
Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Boston, MA, April 2004.
Best Paper Award, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) PhD Workshop, Berlin, Germany, September 2003.
Best Paper Award, IFIP International Symposium on Computer Modeling, Measurement and Evaluation (Performance), Roma, Italy, September 2002.
Best Paper Award, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Roma, Italy, September 2001.
Other Paper Awards
Best of DaMoN 2017, Thirteen International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware, Chicago, USA May 2017.
Best Demonstration Awards
Best Demonstration Award, ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Houston, Texas, USA, June 2018.
Best Demonstration Award, ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Athens, Greece, June 2011.
Best Demonstration Award, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Atlanta, GA, April 2006.
Teaching Assistant Awards
Stella Giannakopoulou, 2018
Mirjana Pavlovic, 2018
Matthaios-Alexandros Olma, 2016 & 2017
Manolis Karpathiotakis, 2016
Manos Athanassoulis, 2013
Fellowships
2020 Facebook Fellowship, Panagiotis Sioulas
2017 MSR PhD Fellowship, Utku Sirin
2015 IBM PhD Fellowship, Manos Karpathiotakis
2014 Symantec Research Lab Graduate Fellowship, Ioannis Alagiannis
2011 IBM PhD Fellowship, Manos Athanassoulis
Professor Anastasia Ailamaki
NEMITSAS Prize 2018 in Computer Science
IEEE Fellow “for contributions to hardware-conscious database systems and scientific data management”, since 01/2018
ACM Fellow “For contributions to the design, implementation, and evaluation of modern database systems”, since 01/2015
Elected Vice Chair, ACM SIGMOD Executive Committee (2013-2017)
European Young Investigator Award from the European Science Foundation, 2007
Finmeccanica fellowship from Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon, 2007
Sloan Research Fellowship, February 2005
NSF Faculty Early CAREER Award (CAREER), 2002
IBM University Faculty Partnership Award, 2001-02, 2002-03, 2003-04
Carnegie Mellon University Berkman Faculty Development Award, 2001
University of Wisconsin – Madison Anthony C. Klug NCR Graduate Fellowship in Database Systems, 1998-2000
- Ranked 3rd in the 2nd Panhellenic Mathematics Olympiad. Athens, Greece, 1985
- Honor medal in the 3nd Panbalcanic Mathematics Olympiad. Sofia, Bulgaria, 1985.