Biography
Panos Kalnis is a professor of Computer Science at KAUST. He served as chair of the University’s Computer Science program from 2014 to 2018. In 2009, Kalnis was on sabbatical at Stanford University in the United States. Before that, he was an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore.
Earlier in his career, Kalnis was involved in designing and testing very-large-scale integration (VLSI) chips at the Computer Technology Institute in Greece. He has also worked for several companies on database design, e-commerce projects, and web applications.
Kalnis received his diploma in computer engineering in 1998 from the University of Patras in Greece and his Ph.D. in 2002 from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).
Kalnis served as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering from 2013 to 2015 and was on the editorial board of the International Journal on Very Large Data Bases from 2013 to 2017.
Research Interests
Kalnis' research interests include big data, cloud computing, parallel and distributed systems, large graphs, systems for machine learning. Furthermore, he is interested in computing privacy in order to advance in the fields of data mining, knowledge extraction, security and bioinformatics.
