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TUC Alumni Spyros Blanas receives the IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award


TUC Alumni Spyros Blanas received the IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award for his contributions to high-performance database management systems. The IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award is based on an individual's whole body of work in the first five years after the PhD. The award aims to promote current database researchers as they create their career.

Spyros Blanas is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University. His research interest is high-performance database systems, and his current goal is to build a database system for high-end computing facilities. He has received the Google Research Faculty award. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and part of his Ph.D. dissertation was commercialized in Microsoft's flagship data management product, SQL Server, as the Hekaton in-memory transaction processing engine.

A few words about IEEE TCDE:
The Technical Committee on Data Engineering (TCDE) of the IEEE Computer Society is concerned with the role of data in the design, development, management and utilization of information systems.The IEEE TCDE has established four awards, one of which is the IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award. The goal of these highly prestigious awards is to encourage innovative long term contributions to the field of data engineering. These awards are managed by the TCDE Awards Committee.

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