Big Data Systems

Stratos Idreos is the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Faculty Co-Director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative. He leads DASlab, the Harvard Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems Laboratory. His research pursues a fundamental shift in how we build systems: self-designing data and AI systems. By discovering the alphabets and grammars that govern system architectures, his work enables machines, not humans, to invent entirely new systems tailored to specific workloads, hardware, and constraints. His earlier work on database cracking introduced automated adaptive indexing based on the workload. Before Harvard, Idreos was a researcher at CWI Amsterdam and held visiting positions at EPFL, Microsoft Research, IBM Almaden, University of Trento, and the National University of Singapore. He earned his PhD from the University of Amsterdam. Idreos is a recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and the Department of Energy Early Career Award. His work has received the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Management of Data (AMC SIGMOD) Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award, the ACM SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award, the Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) Test-of-Time Award, and the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) Cor Baayen Award as the most promising young researcher in computer science across Europe. He co-chaired ACM SIGMOD 2021 and The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2022 and co-founded the ACM/IMS Journal of Data Science.