Professional Appointments

• July 2025 - current: Associate Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, group leader of Scalable Online Data Management
• June 2025 - current: Affiliated Researcher at Archimedes Research Unit, Athena Research Center, Greece
• July 2018 - June 2025: Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology
• Aug. 2017 - June 2018: Marie Skłodowska-Curie EPFL Fellow, EPFL
• Jan. 2016 - Aug. 2017: Research and Teaching Associate at EPFL
• April 2011 - Dec. 2015: Researcher at SoftNet lab, Technical University of Crete
• Sept. 2012 - Sept. 2013: Adjunct Lecturer at Open University of Cyprus
• Oct. 2005 - March 2011: Research associate at L3S Research Center, University of Hannover
• 2004 - 2005: Software consultant, NetU Consultants Ltd, Cyprus
• 2002 - 2003: Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus

Education

• PhD, Computer Science, University of Hannover and L3S Research Center, 2011
• MSc, Computer Science, University of Saarland and Max Planck Institute for Informatics, 2005
• MSc, Advanced Information Technologies, University of Cyprus, 2004
• BSc, Computer Science, University of Cyprus, 2002

Research Focus

My ambition is to unlock the full potential of data, by providing sustainable methods for online analytics. Online analytics comes with strict performance requirements: the results need to be made available almost instantaneously, to allow for interactivity. Sustainability, on the other hand, refers to different properties of the desired solutions: (a) low cost, (b) scalability with the data size and velocity, (c) ease of use at different situations. I have key contributions towards this direction, by building (a) easy-to-use data synopses that allow efficient compact summarization and analytics, and, (b) streaming algorithms, that facilitate processing of the data at line speed.

Recent Professional Services

• 2026: Reviewer for EDBT'26.
• 2026: Light Load Reviewer for VLDB'26.
• 2025: PC member for VLDB Demonstration track.
• 2025: PC member for ICDE Industrial track.
• 2025: PC member for EDBT.
• 2025: Co-chair for MulTiSA@ICDE'25.
• 2025: Co-chairing interactive session The role of Data Management in the Era of AI at NWO ICT.Open'25.
• 2024: PC member for SIGMOD.
• 2024: Rapid Response Reviewer for VLDB.
• 2024: PC member for EDBT.
• 2024: Publication and Proceedings Chair for ICDE.
• 2024: Co-chair for MulTiSA@ICDE'24.

Recent Awards and Recognitions

• April 2025: SIGMOD Research Highlight Award for OmniSketch.
• April 2025: Distinguished Reviewer Award at SIGMOD'25.
• April 2025: PC Honorable Mention Award at EDBT'25.
• August 2024: Our work OmniSketch received the best paper award at VLDB'24.

Contact Details

Odysseas Papapetrou
Email:
Phone: +31 40 247 6087
Visiting address: MetaForum 7.090, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Postal address: M&CS department, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands