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Yannis Papakonstantinou

Author: Yannis Papakonstantinou

Yannis Papakonstantinou is a Senior Principal Scientist at Amazon Web Services. His R&D work is on query processing with focus on querying semistructured data. Yannis is also Professor (on leave) of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He has published over one hundred research articles that have received over 15,000 citations. He has given multiple tutorials and invited talks, has served on journal editorial boards and has chaired and participated in program committees for many international conferences and workshops. He was the CEO and Chief Scientist of Enosys Software, which built and commercialized an early Enterprise Information Integration platform for structured and semistructured data. The Enosys Software was OEM'd and sold under the BEA Liquid Data and BEA Aqualogic brand names, eventually acquired in 2003 by BEA Systems. Yannis holds a Diploma of Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University (1997).

Diagram showing where PartiQL fits with other data sources.

Announcing PartiQL: One query language for all your data

Data is being gathered and created at rates unprecedented in history. Much of this data is intended to drive business outcomes but, according to the Harvard Business Review, “…on average, less than half of an organization’s structured data is actively used in making decisions…” The root of the problem is that data is typically spread […]