Foto Afrati
Foto N. Afrati is a Greek computer scientist whose research involves distributed computing, distributed database queries, and approximation algorithms, especially using MapReduce. She is a retired professor in the School of Electrical and Computing Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens.[1]
Education and career
Afrati studied electrical and mechanical engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, earning a diploma in 1976. She completed a PhD in 1980 at Imperial College London, with the dissertation Error Correcting Codes by Algorithms,[2] supervised by Anthony G. Constantinides.[3]
After postdoctoral research in electrical engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, she obtained a position there as lecturer in computer science in 1982. She was promoted to assistant professor in 1985, associate professor in 1989, and full professor in 1993.[2]
Book
Afrati is a coauthor of the book Answering Queries Using Views (with Rada Chirkova, Synthesis Lectures on Data Management, Morgan & Claypool, 2017; 2nd ed., 2019). She is also an author of two Greek-language textbooks.[2]
Recognition
Afrati was named as an ACM Fellow in 2014, "for contributions to the theory of database systems".[4]
References
- ^ "Foto Afrati, Retired Professor", Academic staff, School of Electrical and Computing Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, retrieved 2024-06-26
- ^ a b c Brief biography, retrieved 2024-06-26
- ^ Foto Afrati at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Foto Afrati", Award recipients, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2024-06-26
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