A prestigious International Journal on Very Large Data Bases.

Georgia Koutrika, Research Director at "Athena" Research Center in Greece and Treasurer of Greek ACM-W Chapter, has been elected Editor-in-Chief for the prestigious International Journal on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB Journal).

Dr Koutrika has more than 15 years of experience in multiple roles at HP Labs, IBM Almaden, and Stanford. She has received a PhD and a diploma in Computer Science from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens in Greece. Her work focuses on natural language data interfaces, data exploration, recommendations, and data analytics, and has been incorporated in commercial products, described in 14 granted patents and 26 patent applications in the US and worldwide and published in more than 100 papers in top-tier conferences and journals.

We are very proud of our member and wish her a fruitful tenure!