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Evaggelia Pitoura is a Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics at the University of Ioannina, Greece, and a Lead Researcher at the Archimedes Research Unit, ATHENA Research Center. Her work spans data management, distributed systems, and mobile computing, with a strong focus on database personalization and diversity.
Her research interests include data diversity, contextual preferences, XML data management, peer-to-peer systems, and mobile computing. She has pioneered work in result diversification, preference-aware querying, and distributed data indexing, publishing extensively in top venues such as PVLDB, ICDE, SIGMOD, and IEEE TPDS.
The recent publications highlight a consistent trend in personalized, context-aware database systems, with emphasis on improving user experience through intelligent query processing, recommendation, and efficient data organization in distributed environments.
- Best Paper Award, SIGMOD 1999
- Best Paper Award, PVLDB 2013
She has advised several PhD students, including Georgia Koloniari, Kostas Stefanidis, Marina Drosou, and Konstantinos Semertzidis, who now hold positions in academia and industry. She teaches courses in Databases and Information Retrieval and actively contributes to the academic community through program committee roles in major conferences like ICDE, VLDB, SIGMOD, and WWW.
She leads the Distributed Management of Data Group, fostering innovation in scalable and intelligent data systems.
