Anastasia Ailamaki
Elle - She/her
EPFL IC IINFCOM DIAS
BC 226 (Bâtiment BC)
Station 14
1015 Lausanne
+41 21 693 75 64
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Expertise
Database management systems, scientific applications, computer architecture
Awards
Elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
National Academy of Engineering
2026
ERC Advanced Grant “ Transforming Raw Data into Information through Virtualization”
European Commission
2025
ARGO Innovation Award
2021
ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award
Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM)
2022
VLDB (Very Large Data Bases) Women in Database Research Award
Very Large Data Bases Endowment Inc
2020
Elected member of the Academia Europaea
Academia Europaea
2020
ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD)
2019
NEMITSAS Prize in Computer Science
Takis and Louki Nemitsas Foundation, Cyprus
2018
Elected Fellow for Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2018
Elected Fellow of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM)
2015
ERC Consolidator grant
European Research Council (ERC)
2013
Finmeccanica endowed chair
Carnegie Mellon
2007
European Young Investigator Award
ESF
2007
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
2005
NSF Faculty Early CAREER award
National Science Foundation
2002
Infoscience extract
HIRE: A Hybrid Learned Index for Robust and Efficient Performance under Mixed Workloads
2025. 2026 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference, Bengaluru, India, 2026-05-31 - 2026-06-05.Filtered Vector Search: State-of-the-Art and Research Opportunities
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment. 2025. DOI : 10.14778/3750601.3750700.Trustworthy and Efficient LLMs Meet Databases
2024PixelsDB: Serverless and NL-Aided Data Analytics with Flexible Service Levels and Prices
2024Adaptive Recursive Query Optimization
2024. IEEE 40th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Utrecht, Netherlands, 2024-05-13 - 2024-05-17. p. 368 - 381. DOI : 10.1109/ICDE60146.2024.00035.One-shot Garbage Collection for In-memory OLTP through Temporality-aware Version Storage
2023. DOI : 10.1145/3588699.HetCache: Synergising NVMe Storage and GPU acceleration for Memory-Efficient Analytics
2023. 13th Annual Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR 2023), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January 8-11, 2023.Analytical Engines With Context-Rich Processing: Towards Efficient Next-Generation Analytics
2023. IEEE 39th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Anaheim, California, USA, April 3-8, 2023. DOI : 10.1109/ICDE55515.2023.00298.Pixels: An Efficient Column Store for Cloud Data Lakes
2022. 38th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Kuala Lumpur, Malaisia, May 9-12, 2022. p. 3078 - 3090. DOI : 10.1109/ICDE53745.2022.00276.The Seattle report on database research
Communications of the ACM. 2022. DOI : 10.1145/3524284.Dalton: Learned Partitioning for Distributed Data Streams
2022. International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2022), Sydney, Australia, September 5-9, 2022. p. 491 - 504. DOI : 10.14778/3570690.3570699.Micro-architectural analysis of in-memory OLTP: Revisited
The VLDB Journal. 2021. DOI : 10.1007/s00778-021-00663-8.Scalable Multi-Query Execution using Reinforcement Learning
2021. ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Virtual, China, June 20-25, 2021. DOI : 10.1145/3448016.3452799.Access pattern based optimization of memory access
SAP: US10733185 ; US2019278858 . 2020.A system design for elastically scaling transaction processing engines in virtualized servers
Proceedings Of The Vldb Endowment. 2020. DOI : 10.14778/3415478.3415536.Micro-architectural Analysis of OLAP: Limitations and Opportunities
Proceedings Of The Vldb Endowment. 2020. DOI : 10.14778/3380750.3380755.Cleaning Denial Constraint Violations through Relaxation
2020. ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), ELECTR NETWORK, Jun 14-19, 2020. p. 805 - 815. DOI : 10.1145/3318464.3389775.Dictionary Compression in Point Cloud Data Management
Acm Transactions On Spatial Algorithms And Systems. 2019. DOI : 10.1145/3299770.Taster: Self-Tuning, Elastic and Online Approximate Query Processing
2019. 35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2019), Macau SAR, Chine, April 8-11,2019. p. 482 - 493. DOI : 10.1109/ICDE.2019.00050.Efficient Bundled Spatial Range Queries
2019. 27th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), Chicago, IL, Nov 05-08, 2019. p. 139 - 148. DOI : 10.1145/3347146.3359077.Timely and cost-efficient data exploration through adaptive tuning
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9636.Adaptive Cache Mode Selection for Queries over Raw Data
2018. Ninth International Workshop on Accelerating Analytics and Data Management Systems Using Modern Processor and Storage Architectures (ADMS), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 27, 2018.QUASII: QUery-Aware Spatial Incremental Index
2018. 21st International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Vienna, Austria, March 26-29, 2018. DOI : 10.5441/002/edbt.2018.29.Improving Spatial Data Processing by Clipping Minimum Bounding Boxes
2018. 34th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops (ICDEW), Paris, France, April 16-19, 2018. p. 425 - 436. DOI : 10.1109/ICDE.2018.00046.GPU Rasterization for Real-Time Spatial Aggregation over Arbitrary Polygons
2017. The 44th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 27-31, 2018. DOI : 10.14778/3157794.3157803.Cheap Data Analytics using Cold Storage Devices
2016. 42st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, New Delhi, India, September 5-9, 2016. p. 1029 - 1040. DOI : 10.14778/2994509.2994521.High Performance Transaction Processing on Non-Uniform Hardware Topologies
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7023.Fast Queries Over Heterogeneous Data Through Engine Customization
2016. 42nd International Conference on Very Large Databases, New Delhi, India, September 5-9, 2016. p. 972 - 983. DOI : 10.14778/2994509.2994516.OLTP on a server-grade ARM: power, throughput and latency comparison
2016. DAMON, San Francisco, California, 26 06 - 01 07 2016. p. 1 - 7. DOI : 10.1145/2933349.2933359.TRANSFORMERS: Robust Spatial Joins on Non-Uniform Data Distributions
2016. IEEE 32nd International Conference on Data Engineering, Helsinki, Finland. p. 673 - 684. DOI : 10.1109/ICDE.2016.7498280.Runtime Prediction for Scale-Out Data Analytics
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6629.THERMAL-JOIN: A Scalable Spatial Join for Dynamic Workloads
2015. International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '15). p. 939 - 950. DOI : 10.1145/2723372.2749434.Smooth Scan: Statistics-Oblivious Access Paths
2015. 31st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Seoul, Korea, April 13-17, 2015. p. 315 - 326. DOI : 10.1109/ICDE.2015.7113294.Towards the Identification of Disease Signatures
2015. Brain Informatics and Health - 8th International Conference, BIH 2015, London, UK, August 30 - September 2, 2015. p. 145 - 155. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-23344-4_15.Reconsolidating Data Structures
2015. International Conference on Extending Database Technology 2015 (EDBT 2015).Extending database task schedulers for multi-threaded application code
2015. International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, San Diego, California, USA, June 29 - July 1, 2015. DOI : 10.1145/2791347.2791379.BF-Tree: Approximate Tree Indexing
2014. 41st International Conference on Very Large Databases, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA, 31 August- 4 September 2015.Scalable Exploration of Spatial Data in Large-Scale Scientific Simulations
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6125.ATraPos: Adaptive Transaction Processing on Hardware Islands
2014. 30th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Chicago, IL, USA, March 31 - Apr 4, 2014. p. 688 - 699. DOI : 10.1109/ICDE.2014.6816692.OCTOPUS: Efficient Query Execution on Dynamic Mesh Datasets
2014. 30st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '14), Chicago, USA, April, 2014.Solid-State Storage and Work Sharing for Efficient Scaleup Data Analytics
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6032.Flash-aware Database Transactions
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6121.Adaptive Query Processing on RAW Data
2014. 40th International Conference on Very Large Databases, Hangzhou, China, September 1-5, 2014.STREX: Boosting Instruction Cache Reuse in OLTP Workloads Through Stratified Transaction Execution
2013. 40th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 23-27, 2013. p. 273 - 284. DOI : 10.1145/2485922.2485946.TOUCH: In-Memory Spatial Join by Hierarchical Data-Oriented Partitioning
2013. International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '13), New York, New York, USA, June 2013.Data-driven Neuroscience: Enabling Breakthroughs Via Innovative Data Management
2013. International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '13), New York, New York, USA, June 2013.Scaling up analytical queries with column-stores
2013. 6th International Workshop on Testing Database Systems, New York, NY, USA, June 24, 2013.SCOUT: Prefetching for Latent Structure Following Queries
2012. 38th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB '12), Istanbul, Turkey, August, 2012. p. 1531 - 1542. DOI : 10.14778/2350229.2350267.Challenges and Opportunities in Self-Managing Scientific Databases
Data Engineering Bulletin. 2011.MaSM: Efficient Online Updates in Data Warehouses
2011. ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Athens, Greece, June 12-16, 2011. DOI : 10.1145/1989323.1989414.PLP: Page Latch-free Shared-everything OLTP
2011. 37th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Seattle, Washington, USA, August 29 - September 3, 2011. p. 610 - 621. DOI : 10.14778/2021017.2021019.A Data-oriented Transaction Execution Engine and Supporting Tools
2011. ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Athens, Greece, June 12-16, 2011. p. 1237 - 1240. DOI : 10.1145/1989323.1989463.An Automated, yet Interactive and Portable DB designer
2010. ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, June 6–10, 2010. p. 1183 - 1186. DOI : 10.1145/1807167.1807314.Aether: A scalable approach to logging
2010. 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Singapore, September 13-17, 2010. DOI : 10.14778/1920841.1920928.Reactive NUCA: Near-Optimal Block Placement and Replication in Distributed Caches
2009. 36th ACM/IEEE Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Austin, TX. p. 184 - 195. DOI : 10.1145/1555754.1555779.Adaptive Physical Design for Curated Archives
2009. SSDBM '09, New Orleans, June 2-4. p. 148 - 166. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-02279-1_11.Shore-MT: A Scalable Storage Manager for the Multicore Era
2009. 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Saint Petersburg, Russia, March 24-26. p. 24 - 35. DOI : 10.1145/1516360.1516365.Critical Sections: Re-Emerging Scalability Concerns for Database Storage Engines
2008. p. 35 - 40. DOI : 10.1145/1457150.1457157.Automated physical design in database caches
2008. p. 27 - 34. DOI : 10.1109/ICDEW.2008.4498281.To Share or Not To Share?
2007. 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Vienna, Austria, September. p. 351 - 362.Database Servers on Chip Multiprocessors: Limitations and Opportunities
2007.Report on the Second International Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (SMDB 2007)
IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin. 2007.Letter from the Special Issue Editor
IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin. 2007.Simultaneous scalability and security for data-intensive web applications
2006. p. 241 - 252. DOI : 10.1145/1142473.1142501.Parallel depth first vs. work stealing schedulers on CMP architectures
2006. DOI : 10.1145/1148109.1148167.Query Co-Processing on Commodity Processors
2006.Log-based architectures for general-purpose monitoring of deployed code
2006. p. 63 - 65. DOI : 10.1145/1181309.1181319.Report on the Second International Workshop on Data Management on Modern Hardware (DaMoN'06)
SIGMOD Record. 2006. DOI : 10.1145/1228268.1228279.Improving instruction cache performance in OLTP
ACM Transactions on Database Systems. 2006. DOI : 10.1145/1166074.1166079.Temporal Streaming of Shared Memory
2005. p. 222 - 233. DOI : 10.1109/ISCA.2005.50.Atropos: A Disk Array Volume Manager for Orchestrated Use of Disks
2004. p. 159 - 172.STEPS towards Cache-resident Transaction Processing
2004. p. 660 - 671.Workload-Driven Schema Design for Large Scientific Databases
IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin. 2004.Priority Mechanisms for OLTP and Transactional Web Applications
2004. 20th International Conference on Data Engineering, Boston, MA, USA, 30 March - 2 April 2004. p. 535 - 546.A Case for Staged Database Systems
2003.Time management for new faculty
SIGMOD Record. 2003. DOI : 10.1145/776985.777004.An environmental sensor network to determine drinking water quality and security
SIGMOD Record. 2003. DOI : 10.1145/959060.959069.Data page layouts for relational databases on deep memory hierarchies
The VLDB Journal. 2002. DOI : 10.1007/s00778-002-0074-9.Weaving Relations for Cache Performance
2001. p. 169 - 180.Timestamp snooping: an approach for extending SMPs
2000. p. 25 - 36. DOI : 10.1145/356989.356992.Scientific Workflow Management by Database Management
1998. p. 190 - 199. DOI : 10.1109/SSDM.1998.688123.MILORD: Advanced database technology for implementing a multimedia medical workstation
1993. Third International Conference on Image Management and Communication, Berlin, Germany, June 1993.Infoscience
Efficient Use of the Query Optimizer for Automated Database Design
2007. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Vienna, Austria, Vienna, Austria, September 2007.Database Servers on Chip Multiprocessors: Limitations and Opportunities
2007. Asilomar, CA, January.Improving instruction cache performance in OLTP
ACM Transactions on Database Systems. 2006. DOI : 10.1145/1166074.1166079.Efficient query processing on unstructured tetrahedral meshes
2006. International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Chicago, Illinois, USA, June 27-29, 2006. p. 551-562. DOI : 10.1145/1142473.1142535.On Multidimensional Data and Modern Disks
2005. Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), San Francisco, CA, USA, December 13-16, 2005. p. 17-17.Teaching & PhD
PhD Students
Hamish Nicholson, Anna Herlihy, Yi Jiang, Eleni Zapridou, Georgiy Konstantinovich Lebedev, Ioanna Tsakalidou
Past EPFL PhD Students
Farhan Tauheed, Radu Ioan Stoica, Manos Athanassoulis, Pinar Tözün, Adrian Daniel Popescu, Ioannis Alagiannis, Renata Borovica-Gajic, Danica Porobic, Iraklis Psaroudakis, Manos Karpathiotakis, Matthaios Alexandros Olma, Mirjana Pavlovic, Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou, Georgios Psaropoulos, Utku Sirin, Styliani Asimina Giannakopoulou, Periklis Chrysogelos, Panagiotis Sioulas, Viktor Sanca, Aunn Raza
Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector
Courses
Data-intensive systems
CS-300
This course covers the data management system design concepts using a hands-on approach.
Systems for data management and data science
CS-460
This is a course for students who want to understand modern large-scale data analysis systems and database systems. The course covers fundamental principles for understanding and building systems for managing and analyzing large amounts of data. It covers a wide range of topics and technologies.