Damianos Chatziantoniou

Damianos Chatziantoniou received his B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Athens and continued his studies in Computer Science at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University (M.Sc.) and Columbia University (Ph.D.) His academic research interests include big data systems, business intelligence, large-scale analytics and real-time analytics. He is currently an Associate Professor at Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) in the Department of Management Science and Technology and Director of AUEB’s international Masters program in Business Analytics. He is also serving as an External Reviewer at "Business Analytics" and "Machine Learning and Data Sciences" Master’s programs at University College London. Prior to AUEB, Damianos was a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, and held research collaborations with AT&T Research and Columbia Medical Informatics Department. Besides academia, he has been involved in several technology start-up companies. Panakea Software Inc. (founder, 1998), based in New York City, developed and marketed BI technology to make certain analytics easier to express and faster to evaluate. VoiceWeb (co-founder, 2001), based in Athens, focused on speech & telecom applications. Damianos also served as a senior research consultant in Aster Data, a pioneer of big data systems.