Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou

Assistant Professor

Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU). Her research focuses on developing data management tools that improve the efficiency of modern data analytics and data science workloads, with an emphasis on spatial workloads.

Before joining ITU, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Berlin (TUB) and a junior fellow at the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD). She earned her Ph.D. in 2019 from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where she was advised by Prof. Anastasia Ailamaki. During her doctoral studies, she also spent four months as a visiting researcher at New York University (NYU) with Prof. Juliana Freire. Her dissertation research focused on query processing for spatial and temporal data exploration. She obtained a Diploma M.Eng. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2013.

Eleni has been awarded Distinguished Reviewer at VLDB 2022 and won the SIGMOD Best Demonstration Award in 2018.

For more information about Eleni, you can visit her website: https://heltzi.github.io/