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-Dr DAMIANOS CHATZIANTONIOU is visiting assistant professor in Athens University of 
-Economics and Business and scientific consultant to eLTRUN. He has received his 
-B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Athens in Greece and continued 
-his studies in Computer Science at New York University (M.Sc., 1993) and Columbia 
-University (Ph.D., 1997), working with Ken Ross on data warehousing and decision 
-support systems. During his studies he was teaching and consulting regularly. Since 
-1997, Damianos is an assistant professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, an adjunct 
-professor at Columbia University and president and co-founder of Panakea Software Inc. 
-Panakea owns patent-pending algorithms for OLAP applications and developed a state-of-the-art 
-decision support querying tool. Reference sites include AT-T, New York Hospital and 
-Dun-Bradstreet. Damianos is collaborating with AT-T Labs-Research, Columbia University Medical 
-Informatics Center, and National Technical University of Athens. His interests lie in the areas 
-of data warehousing, decision support systems, OLAP and data mining. He has published papers and 
-journals in VLDB, ICDE, EDBT and elsewhere.
+Damianos Chatziantoniou received his B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from the University of 
+Athens (June 1991, summa cum laude) and continued his studies in Computer Science at 
+Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University (M.Sc., Dec. 1992) and 
+Columbia University (M.Phil., Feb. 1996, Ph.D., June 1997). His academic research interests
+include big data, business intelligence (data warehousing, OLAP), large-scale analytics
+(MapReduce and beyond), query processing, data streams and real-time analysis. He has 
+published more than 30 articles at top conferences and journals, such as VLDB, ICDE, EDBT, 
+KDD, SIGMOD, Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering and 
+elsewhere. His research work has influenced Microsoft’s SQL Server (query processor), 
+Oracle’s 8i and 9i Systems (Analytic Functions for OLAP, a benchmark for any BI system), and 
+ANSI SQL Standard (OLAP Amendment). There are more than 11 U.S. patents using Damianos’ research 
+work as primary reference (among these, 4 from Microsoft, 2 from IBM and 2 from Oracle) and 
+more than 150 citations to his work, including 9 data management textbooks.  He is currently 
+an Assistant Professor at Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Department of 
+Management Science and Technology. Prior to AUEB, he has served as a tenure-track Assistant 
+Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology (September 1997-December 1999.) 
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+Besides academia, Damianos has been involved in several technology startups. Panakea Software 
+Inc. (founder, 1998), based in New York City, developed and marketed database querying/reporting 
+technology to make certain analytic tasks (OLAP) easier to express and faster to evaluate. Clients 
+included Dun & Bradstreet, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and Philips North America. 
+VoiceWeb SA (founder, 2001), based in Athens, focused on speech & telecom applications. VoiceWeb is 
+currently the leading company in the Balkans in speech-related applications. In 2011, Bank of Piraeus 
+acquired a stake at Voiceweb. Clients include Vodafone, Wind, Alpha Bank, Village Cinemas, Athens 
+Festival, etc. Damianos has served in 2007-2008 as a senior research consultant in Aster Data 
+Systems, a high-profile database technology startup based on Silicon Valley, dealing with distributed data
+warehouses. Aster Data was acquired in March of 2011 by Teradata.
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 <p>For more information please visit his	
 <a href="http://dmst.aueb.gr/damianos/">personal web page</a>