Phokion Kolaitis

American computer scientist

Phokion Gerasimos Kolaitis ACM (born 4 July 1950) is a computer scientist who is currently a Distinguished Research Professor at UC Santa Cruz and a Principal Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He is known for his work on principles of database systems, logic in computer science, computational complexity, and other related fields.2

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Born Jul 4, 1950.1

Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedUniversity of California, Los Angeles3

Kolaitis obtained a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Athens in 1973 and a master's degree and Ph.D in Mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1974 and 1978, respectively.

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Career

Occupation: mathematician, researcher, logician, university teacher, computer scientist.7

Kolaitis is currently a Distinguished Research Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering Department of University of California, Santa Cruz. He is also a Principal Research Staff Member in the theory group at the IBM Almaden Research Center.

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Personal life

  • BornJul 4, 1950, Athens8

Awards

  • 2020Alonzo Church Award for Composing schema mappings9 12
  • 2020Alonzo Church Award for Data exchange: semantics and query answering9 12
  • 2010Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science9 11
  • 2005ACM Fellow9 10
  • 1993Guggenheim Fellowship9