Alexandros Biliris Email: alex [at] biliris [dot] com Voice: +1-973-906-3919 Fax: +1-760-860-8483 Address: 109 Ormont Road Chatham, NJ 07928 USA

Biographical Sketch

Alex Biliris has extensive experience in technology research and development in the areas of data management, large scale distributed systems and middleware, Web services, protocols and applications.

Alex is with the faculty of computer science department at Columbia University since 2002. Prior to that, he was a senior technologist with AT&T Laboratories since 1996, where he helped develop AT&T's strategy and offerings in unified messaging, document management, managed hosting and Web content delivery services. From 1991 to 1996, he was at Bell Labs, leading the team developing the data storage systems for the first-ever Interactive TV (Video on Demand) service offered in the US in the mid-90s. He developed several large scale distributed systems including EOS (a client-server transactional storage manager), SaveMe (a document archival system), BeSS (a persistent peer-to-peer store for C++ objects and the engine of the multimedia server of the NCR Teradata Database Management System), and Ode (a database system supporting an object query language and triggers). Before joining Bell Labs, he was an Assistant Professor of computer science at Boston University from 1985 to 1991, conducting research on object-relational database systems.

He has authored more than a dozen patents and approximately 40 technical articles that have been published in leading conferences and journals. He is active in several major organizations of the software community serving as general chairman, on the editorial board, and as a member of technical committees. Further, he served as technology advisor to corporations and as a Visiting Lecturer of computer science at Princeton University.

He received his Ph.D. in computer science from G. Washington University, after completing graduate studies at University of Athens, Greece. He further completed a mini MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, and AT&T Business School.