Kalogeraki Vana

Prof. Vana Kalogeraki is a Faculty Member at the Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), and serves as the Dean of the School of Information Sciences and Technology and Director of the Computer Systems and Communications Laboratory. She has held academic positions at the University of California, Riverside and was a Research Scientist at Hewlett-Packard Labs.

• PhD: University of California, Santa Barbara
• M.S. & B.S.: University of Crete, Greece

Her research focuses on Distributed and Real-Time Systems, Big Data Systems, Cloud Computing, Human-Centered Systems, and Crowdsourcing. She has published over 200 papers at top journals (IEEE TPDS, ACM TOS, etc.) and conferences (RTSS, DSN, ICDCS, VLDB, MDM), including co-authoring the OMG CORBA Dynamic Scheduling Standard. Her 2023-2025 publications address AI pipelines in serverless environments, edge computing for trauma detection via eye-tracking, and fairness in resource scheduling.

She has received prestigious awards including an ERC Starting Grant, Best Paper Awards (DEBS 2017, IPDPS 2009), a Best Poster Award (EuroSys 2024), and multiple UC Research Awards. Her research is funded by the European Union (ARISTEIA, THALIS), NSF, and industry partners like SUN and Nokia.

• Advising Legacy: Supervised 10 PhD graduates (now at Google, Amazon, IBM, Apple) and over 60 MS/PhD committees
• Labs & Teams: Leads the Computer Systems and Communications Laboratory at AUEB, focusing on mobile human-centered systems and urban data analytics