Themis PalpanasThemis Palpanas is Senior Member of the French University Institute (IUF), and Professor of computer science at the Paris Descartes University (France), where he is the director of diNo, the data management group. He received the B.Sc. from the Natioal Technical University of Athens, Greece, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, Canada. He has previously held positions at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (U.S.), and the University of Trento (Italy). He has also worked for the University of California at Riverside, and visited Microsoft Research (U.S.) and the IBM Almaden Research Center (U.S.). His research interests include problems related to online and offline data management and data analytics, focusing on exploratory search using knowledge graphs, entity resolution on very large and heterogeneous data, and data series similarity search and analytics. He is the author of nine U.S. patents, three of which have been implemented in world-leading commercial data management products. He is the recipient of three Best Paper awards, and the IBM Shared University Research (SUR) Award. He is serving as Editor in Chief for BDR Journal, Associate Editor for PVLDB 2019, and TKDE journal, and Editorial Advisory Board member for IS journal. He has also served (among others) as General Chair for VLDB 2013, Associate Editor for PVLDB 2017, and Workshop Chair for EDBT 2016. Read More Read Less