Vana Kalogeraki is the Dean of the School of Information Sciences and Technology, a Professor
at the Department of Informatics and the Director of the Computer Systems and Communications
Laboratory at Athens University of Economics and Business. Previously she has held positions as
an Associate and Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of
California, Riverside and as a Research Scientist at Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, CA. She
received her PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prof. Vana Kalogeraki has
been working in the field of distributed and real-time systems, big data systems, cloud and edge
computing, human-centric systems, participatory sensing, peer-to-peer, crowdsourcing, mobility,
resource management and fault-tolerance for over 30 years and has authored and co-authored
over 200 papers in journals and conferences proceedings, including co-authoring the OMG
CORBA Dynamic Scheduling Standard.
Prof. Kalogeraki was invited to give keynote talks at DEBS2025, CLOSER2023, PerFoT2018,
MoVid2015, DNCMS 2012, SN2AE 2012, PETRA 2011, DBISP2P 2006 and MLSN 2006 in the
areas of Edge Computing, IoT, participatory sensing systems and sensor network middleware and
delivered tutorials and seminars on peer-to-peer computing. She has served as the General Chair
or co-Chair of EuroSys 2024, GEC 2023, GEC 2022, MDM 2021, SEUS 2009 and WPDRTS
2006 and as a Program co-Chair of Mobiquitous 2023, ACSOS 2021, DASFAA 2021,
Middleware 2019, MDM 2017, DEBS 2016, MUD 2014, MDM 2011, ISORC 2009, ISORC
2007, ICPS 2005, WPDRTS 2005 and DBISP2P 2003, a Tutorial Chair for IEEE ICDE 2020,
ACM DEBS 2015, a Workshops Chair for IEEE SRDS 2015, a Demo Chair for IEEE MDM
2012, in addition to other roles such as Area Chair (IEEE ICDCS 2016, 2012) and as program
committee member on over 100 conferences.
She was also awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship, three best paper awards at the 11th ACM
International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2017), 24th IEEE
International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2009) and the 9th IEEE
Annual International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT 2008), a best poster
award at EuroSys 2024, a best technical paper award at ACM PETRA 2018, a Best Student Paper
Award at the 11th IEEE/IPSJ International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT
2011), an IBM best student paper award runner up at MDM 2014, a UC Regents Fellowship
Award, UC Academic Senate Research Awards and a research award from HP Labs. She has also
received an Award for Excellence in Teaching for the academic year 2018-2019 and two
Research Awards in 2025 and 2023 from the Department of Informatics, Athens University of
Economics and Business. Her research has been supported by an ERC Starting Independent
Researcher Grant, the European Union, joint EU/Greek Aristeia grant, a joint EU/Greek
Thalis grant, NSF and gifts from SUN and Nokia.