Biography

Dr. Georgia Koutrika is Research Director at Athena Research Center in Greece. Before that, she was a Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs, researcher at IBM Almaden, and postdoctoral researcher at Stanford. Her research emerges at the intersection of data management and deep learning, focusing on Conversational Data Exploration, Fair and Ethical Algorithmic Systems, and Learnt Data Management. Her work has been incorporated in commercial products, described in 19 granted patents and 26 patent applications in the US and worldwide, and published in more than 140 papers in top-tier conferences and journals. She is a member of the VLDB Endowment Board of Trustees, coordinating EiC for VLDB Journal, and chair of the ACM Europe Working Group on Seasonal Schools. She is VLDB 2027 General Chair, EDBT2025 Demo Chair, and she was PC co-Chair for VLDB 2023, co-EiC of Proceedings of the VLDB (PVLDB) Vol 16, General Chair for ACM SIGMOD 2016, and member of the PVLDB Advisory board. She has served in various other organization roles, including EDBT 2023 and ICDE 2021 sponsorship chair. She has served or serves as associate editor for top conferences (such as ACM SIGMOD and VLDB) and journals (TKDE, VLDB Journal). She has received the EDBT 2023 Test-of-Time award, 2 best demo awards, and several industrial recognitions.