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I am a Professor of Computer Science at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and I served as Chair of the Computer Science program from 2014 to 2018. In 2009 I was on sabbatical at Stanford University. Before that, I was an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS). 

 

In the past, I was involved in the designing and testing of VLSI chips. I also worked in several companies on database designing, e-commerce projects and web applications.

 

I have served as associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) from 2013 to 2015, and on the editorial board of the VLDB Journal from 2013 to 2017. 

 

I received my Diploma in Computer Engineering from the Univ. of Patras, Greece in 1998, and my PhD from the Computer Science Dept., Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2002.  

​​​My research interests include Big Data, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Large Graphs and Systems for Machine Learning. I use large computing infrastructures, such as the Shaheen II supercomputer. I am the leader of the InfoCloud @ KAUST group and a member of the Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) at KAUST.​

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Panos Kalnis

Professor of Computer Science, KAUST

Phone:

+966 12 808 0343

Address:

Building 1, Level 4, Room #4416

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

4700 KAUST

Thuwal, 23955

Saudi Arabia

Team

Dr. Guozhong Li

PostDoc

Hang Xu

PhD student

Chen Qiu

MSc student

Reem Alzahrani

MSc student

Selected publications

A Universal Question-Answering Platform for Knowledge Graphs

Omar R., Dhall I., Kalnis P., Mansour E.

2023

ACM SIGMOD

SLAMB: Accelerated Large Batch Training with Sparse Communication

Xu H., Zhang W., Fei F., Wu Y., Xie T.W., Huang J., Xie Y., Elhoseiny M., Kalnis P.

2023

Int. Conf. on Machine Learning (ICML)

Scaling Distributed Machine Learning with In-Network Aggregation

Sapio A., Canini M., Ho C.Y., Nelson J., Kalnis P., Kim C., Krishnamurthy A., Moshref M., Ports D., Richtarik P.

2021

USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)

Rethinking Gradient Sparsification as Total Error Minimization

Sahu A.N., Dutta A., Abdelmoniem A., Banerjee T., Canini M., Kalnis P.

2021

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

GRACE: A Compressed Communication Framework for Distributed Machine Learning

Xu H., Ho C.Y., Abdelmoniem A., Dutta A., Bergou H., Karatsenidis K., Canini M, Kalnis P.

2021

IEEE Int. Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)

A Sparse-tensor Communication Framework for Federated Deep Learning

Xu H., Kostopoulou K., Dutta A., Li X., Ntoulas A., Kalnis P.

2021

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

On the Discrepancy between the Theoretical Analysis and Practical Implementations of Compressed Communication for Distributed Deep Learning

Dutta A., Bergou E.H, Abdelmoniem A.M., Ho C.Y., Sahu A.N., Canini M., Kalnis P.

2020

American Association for Artificial Intelligence Conference (AAAI)

Matrix Algebra Framework for Portable, Scalable and Efficient Query Engines for RDF Graphs

Jamour F., Abdelaziz I., Chen Y., Kalnis P.

2019

EuroSys

GRAMI: Frequent Subgraph and Pattern Mining in a Single Large Graph

Elseidy M., Abdelhamid E., Skiadopoulos S., Kalnis P.

2014

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB)

Private Queries in Location Based Services: Anonymizers are not Necessary

Ghinita G., Kalnis P., Khoshgozaran A., Shahabi C., Tan K.L.

2008

ACM SIGMOD

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