About Me
I am currently a Principal Researcher at Huawei, working on next-generation databases. My interests include concurrency, consistency, fault tolerance, data structures as well as transactional and analytical databases.
I am particularly fond of maximizing performance per cost by exploring:
- Software-Hardware co-design
- Idea Cross-pollination across: systems, databases, architecture, networking
- Intersection of Theory & Practice: revisit first principles to build next generation systems.
Previously, I worked for
Microsoft Research
and got my Ph.D. from the
University of Edinburgh,
for which I received the
ACM-Eurosys Roger Needham HM award.
My research has also received other awards, including a
PPoPP Best Paper nominee
and the
IEEE Micro Top Picks
.
During my Ph.D. I re-thought data replication in the modern datacenter.
This involved designing systems and algorithms to resolve challenges in performance, consistency, load-balance,
fault-tolerance and transactions. Mostly storage solutions in distributed environments which tend to include emerging
networking (e.g., smart RDMA NICs) and/or specialized compute (e.g., FPGAs).
In my own time, I enjoy swimming, meditating, listening to audiobooks and music.
Contact details: antoniskatsarakis {at} yahoo {dot} com
