Dr. Chrysanthis received the BS degree (Physics with concentration in Computer Science, 1982) from the University of Athens, Greece. He earned the MS and PhD degrees (Computer and Information Sciences, 1986 and 1991) from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
He joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh in 1991. He is also a Faculty Member of the RODS Laboratory at Pitt's Center for Biomedical Informatics and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science Department at Carnegie-Mellon University. He has held visiting positions at the University of Massachusetts, at the University of Rome, Italy and at the Carnegie Mellon University.
His research interests lie within the areas of mobile and pervasive data management, database systems, operating systems and real-time systems. In particular, his research focuses on advanced data and information management technologies.
In 1995, he was a recipient of the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his investigation on the management of data for mobile and wireless computing. He is an editor of the VLDB Journal and has served as guest editor for a number of journals and on program committees of several Database and Distributed Computing Conferences. He is a member of the ACM (Sigmod, Sigmobile, Sigops), the IEEE Computer Society, and the USENIX Association.
- Outstanding Achievement in Education, School of Information and Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (April. 2019)
- Honorary Visiting Professorship, University of Diaspora, University of Cyprus (May 2016, June 2018, June 2019)
- Provost Award for Excellence in Mentoring, University of Pittsburgh (April 2015)
- ACM Distinguished Scientist (October 2010)
- ACM Senior Member (December 2007)
- IEEE Computer Society Senior Member (June 2006)
- Pitt Innovator Award, University of Pittsburgh (Sept. 2006)
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award (July 1995)
- Computer Science Teaching Award, University of Pittsburgh, for effectiveness in teaching of a foundation graduate course during 2013-14
- Computer Science Teaching Award, University of Pittsburgh, for effectiveness in teaching of an advanced graduate course during 2008-09
- Computer Science Teaching Award, University of Pittsburgh, for effectiveness in teaching of a graduate (elective) course during 1994-95
- Computer Science Teaching Awards, University of Pittsburgh, for effectiveness in teaching of an undergraduate (service) course during 1994-95, during 1995-96, 1996-97, and 1998-99
- Research Fellow of Information Systems, The Athens Laboratory of Business Administration, Greece (Jan. 1995)
- Nominee for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (July 1992): Selected by the University of Massachusetts at Amherst as the best doctoral dissertation in Computer Science in 1991
- Graduate Studies Scholarship: Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA (Sept ’83 to Aug ’91)
- State Scholarship Institute of Greece: Honorary Scholarships for academic performance during 1979-80 and 1980-81
A. Zheng, A. Labrinidis, and P. K. Chrysanthis, "Planar: Parallel Lightweight Architecture-Aware Adaptive Graph Repartitioning," 32nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering , pp. 121-132, Helsinki, Finland, 2016.
H. Ehsan, M. A. Sharaf, and P. K. Chrysanthis, "MuVE: Efficient Multi-Objective View Recommendation for Visual Data Exploration," 32nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, pp. 1-12, Helsinki, Finland, 2016.
A. Zheng, A. Labrinidis, P. H. Pisciuneri, P. K. Chrysanthis, and P. Givi, "PARAGON: Parallel Architecture-Aware Graph Partition Refinement Algorithm," 19th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Bordeaux, France, March 2016.
A. U. Shein, P. K. Chrysanthis, and A. Labrinidis, "F1: Accelerating the Optimization of Aggregate Continuous Queries," 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pp. 1151-1160, Melbourne, Australia, October 2015.
A. Konstantinidis, G. Nikolaides, G. Chatzimilioudis, G. Evagorou, D. Zeinalipour-Yazti and P. Chrysanthis, " Radiomap Prefetching for Indoor Navigation in Intermittently Connected Wi-Fi Networks," 16th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, pp. 34-43, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2015.
Big data
Database management
Data stream management
Workflow management
User-centric optimizations
Power-aware data processing
Mobile and pervasive management
Distributed and cooperating systems
