George (Georgios) Trimponias

Room 3555

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong

Email: trimponiasATcse.ust.hk

General Information

I obtained a five-year diploma (GPA: 9.48/10.00) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. I then worked as a research associate in the area of distributed reasoning at the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Currently, I am a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, under the supervision of Prof. Dimitris Papadias.

Research Interests

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Database Systems, Applications of Game Theory in Database Systems, Advertising.

Teaching Assistant Duties

Fall 2009	COMP102 - Computer and Programming Fundamental I
Spring 2010	COMP271 - Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Professional Activities

• External reviewer for VLDB 2010
• External reviewer for VLDB 2011
• External reviewer for ICDE 2011
• External reviewer for the VLDB Journal