Scholarship and Biography

Olga Papaemmanouil is an Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Brandeis University. Her research interest lies in the area of data management with a recent focus on applying machine learning techniques in the domain of cloud databases, data exploration, query optimization and query performance prediction. She received her undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Informatics at the University of Patras, Greece in 1999. In 2001, she received her Sc.M. in Information Systems at the University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece. She then joined the Computer Science Department at Brown University, where she completed her Ph.D in Computer Science at Brown University in 2008. She is the recipient of an Amazon Research Award (2019), two Huawei Innovation Research Awards (2018, 2017), an NSF Career Award (2013), a Best Demonstration Award (SIGMOD 2015), a Paris Kanellakis Fellowship (2002) and multiple NSF grants.

Honors

Career Award
National Science Foundation (United States, Arlington) - NSF, 2013
Huawei Faculty Award
Huawei Technologies (China, Shenzhen), 2017-2018
Research Award
Amazon (United States, Seattle), 2019

Organizational Affiliations

Affiliated Faculty, Benjamin and Mae Volen National Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University

Senior Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Curriculum and Professor of Computer Science, Michtom School of Computer Science, Brandeis University

Senior Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Curriculum, Brandeis University Administration, Brandeis University

Education

Brown University
Ph.D.
Brown University
M.S.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών)
M.S.
University of Patras (Πανεπιστήμιο Πατρών)
B.S.