I am an associate professor at the
          
University of Wisconsin-Madison and
          part of the 
UW-Madison Database Group.
          
I completed my Ph.D. in 2015 at the the University of Washington (the other UW), advised by Dan Suciu. 
          
          
 My research lies in the intersection of theory and practice of data management. My work spans various areas:
data processing for massively parallel systems, data markets, efficient data structures, and managing uncertain data.  
 Below is a list of resources if you want to get started with database theory:
  
 
  PUBLICATIONS
  
      
        
    2025 
     
  - 
  Output-sensitive Conjunctive Query Evaluation
  arXiv
 Shaleen Deep, Hangdong Zhao, Austen Z. Fan, Paraschos Koutris, PODS '25
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  Debunking the Myth of Join Ordering: Toward Robust SQL Analytics
  
 Junyi Zhao, Kai Su, Yifei Yang, Xiangyao Yu, Paraschos Koutris, Huanchen Zhang, SIGMOD '25
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  Parallel Query Processing with Heterogeneous Machines
  arXiv
 Simon Frisk, Paraschos Koutris, ICDT '25
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  Generalized Covers for Conjunctive Queries
 Paraschos Koutris, ICDT '25
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  The Free Termination Property of Queries over Time
 Conor Power, Paraschos Koutris, Joseph M. Hellerstein, ICDT '25
 2024 
     
    -  Conjunctive Queries with Negation and Aggregation: A Linear Time Characterization  
      arXiv 
 Hangdong Zhao, Austen Z. Fan, Xiating Ouyang, Paris Koutris,  PODS '24
-   Predicate Transfer: Efficient Pre-Filtering on Multi-Join Queries 
      arXiv 
 Yifei Yang, Hangdong Zhao, Xiangyao Yu, Paris Koutris,  CIDR '24
-  Consistent Query Answering for Primary Keys on Rooted Tree Queries 
      arXiv 
 Paris Koutris, Xiating Ouyang, Jef Wijsen,  PODS '24
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      Topology-aware Parallel Joins
      
 Xiao Hu, Paraschos Koutris, PODS '24
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      Evaluating Datalog over Semirings: A Grounding-based Approach
      arXiv
 Hangdong Zhao, Shaleen Deep, Paraschos Koutris, Sudeepa Roy, Val Tannen, PODS '24
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      Naive Bayes Classifiers over Missing Data: Decision and Poisoning
      arXiv
      OpenReview
 Song Bian, Xiating Ouyang, Zhiwei Fan, Paraschos Koutris, ICML '24
 2023 
	
	-  LinCQA: Faster Consistent Query Answering with Linear Time Guarantees 
       arXiv 
 Zhiwei Fan, Paris Koutris, Xiating Ouyang, Jef Wijsen,  SIGMOD '23
-  Space-Time Tradeoffs for Conjunctive Queries with Access Patterns 
       arXiv 
 Hangdong Zhao, Shaleen Deep, Paris Koutris,  PODS '23
-  General Space-Time Tradeoffs via Relational Queries 
 Shaleen Deep, Xiao Hu, Paris Koutris,  WADS '23
-  The Fine-Grained Complexity of Boolean
Conjunctive Queries and Sum-Product Problems arXiv 
 Austen Z. Fan, Paraschos Koutris, Hangdong Zhao,  ICALP '23
-  The Fine-Grained Complexity of CFL Reachability 
    arXiv 
 Shaleen Deep, Paris Koutris,  POPL '23
 2022 
          
	
          
		-  Modern Datalog Engines 
 Bas Ketsman, Paraschos Koutris,  Foundations and Trends in Databases '22
-  Plor: General Transactions with Predictable, Low Tail Latency 
 Youmin Chen, Xiangyao Yu, Paraschos Koutris, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Jiwu Shu,  SIGMOD '22
-  Certifiable Robustness for Nearest Neighbor Classifiers 
 Austen Z. Fan, Paraschos Koutris,  ICDT '22
-  Ranked Enumeration of Join Queries with Projections 
 Shaleen Deep, Paraschos Koutris,  VLDB '22
-  Salvaging failing and straggling queries 
 Bruhathi Sundarmurthy, Harshad Deshmukh, Paraschos Koutris, Jeffrey Naughton,   ICDE '22
 2021 
	
		-  Consistent Query Answering for Primary Keys on Path Queries 
 Paraschos Koutris, Xiating Ouyang, Jef Wijsen,   PODS '21
-  Algorithms for a Topology-aware Massively Parallel Computation Model
			arXiv
 Xiao Hu, Paraschos Koutris, Spyros Blanas,  PODS '21
-  Comprehensive and Efficient Workload Compression
			arXiv
 Shaleen Deep, Anja Gruenheid, Paraschos Koutris, Jeffrey Naughton, Stratis Viglas,  VLDB '21
-  Locality-aware Distribution Schemes
 Bruhathi Sundarmurthy, Paraschos Koutris, Jeffrey Naughton,   ICDT '21
-  Enumeration Algorithms for Conjunctive Queries with Projection
			arXiv
 Shaleen Deep, Xiao Hu, Paraschos Koutris,  ICDT '21
-  Ranked Enumeration of Conjunctive Query Results
			arXiv
 Shaleen Deep, Paraschos Koutris,  ICDT '21
 2020 
	
          -  Topology-aware Parallel Data Processing: Models, Algorithms and Systems at Scale
 Spyros Blanas, Paraschos Koutris, Anastasios Sidiropoulos,  CIDR '20
-   Fast Join Project Query Evaluation using Matrix Multiplication arXiv
 Shaleen Deep, Xiao Hu, Paraschos Koutris,  SIGMOD '20
-  Automated tuning of query degree of parallelism via machine learning
 Zhiwei Fan, Rathijit Sen, Paraschos Koutris, Aws Albarghouthi,  aiDM@SIGMOD '20
-  First-Order Rewritability in Consistent Query Answering with Respect to Multiple Keys
 Paraschos Koutris, Jef Wijsen,  PODS '20
-  Manually Detecting Errors for Data Cleaning Using Adaptive Crowdsourcing Strategies
 Haojun Zhang, Chengliang Chai, AnHai Doan, Paris Koutris, Esteban Arcaute,  EDBT '20
 2019 
	
          - Revenue Maximization for Query Pricing
          arXiv
 Shuchi Chawla, Shaleen Deep, Paraschos Koutris, Yifeng Teng,  VLDB '20
- Scaling-Up In-Memory Datalog Processing: Observations and Techniques
          arXiv
 Zhiwei Fan, Jianqiao Zhu, Zuyu Zhang, Aws Albarghouthi, Paraschos Koutris, Jignesh Patel,  VLDB '19
-  Towards Model-based Pricing for Machine Learning in a Data Marketplace
          arXiv
 Lingjiao Chen, Paraschos Koutris, Arun Kumar, SIGMOD '19
-  Consistent Query Answering for Primary Keys in Logspace
          arXiv
 Paraschos Koutris, Jef Wijsen,  ICDT '19
 2018 
	
          -   The Effect of Network Width on the Performance of Large-batch Training
          arXiv
 Lingjiao Chen, Hongyi Wang, Jinman Zhao, Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos, Paraschos Koutris,  NIPS '18
-  Syntax-Guided Synthesis of Datalog Programs
 Xujie Si, Woosuk Lee, Richard Zhang, Aws Albarghouthi, Paraschos Koutris, Mayur Naik,  FSE '18
-   Compressed Representations of Conjunctive Query Results
          arXiv
          slides
 Shaleen Deep, Paraschos Koutris,  PODS '18
-  Consistent Query Answering for Primary Keys and Conjunctive Queries with Negated Atoms
 Paraschos Koutris, Jef Wijsen,  PODS '18
-   Distribution Policies for Datalog
 Bas Ketsman, Aws Albarghouthi, Paraschos Koutris,  ICDT '18
-  Algorithmic Aspects of Parallel Data Processing
          tutorial slides
 Paraschos Koutris, Semih Salihoglu, Dan Suciu,  Foundations and Trends in Databases
 2010-2017 (Selected Publications) 
      
        -  QIRANA: A Framework for Scalable Query Pricing
 Shaleen Deep, Paraschos Koutris,  SIGMOD '17
-  The Design of Arbitrage-Free Data Pricing Schemes
          arXiv
 Shaleen Deep, Paraschos Koutris,  ICDT '17
- m-tables: Representing Missing Data
 Bruhathi Sundarmurthy, Paraschos Koutris, Willis Lang, Jeffrey Naughton, and Val Tannen,  ICDT '17
-  Distributed Data Deduplication 
 Xu Chu, Ihab F. Ilyas, Paraschos Koutris, VLDB '16
-  Worst-Case Optimal Algorithms for Parallel Query Processing
 Paraschos Koutris, Paul Beame, Dan Suciu,  ICDT '16
- The Data Complexity of Consistent Query Answering for Self-Join-Free Conjunctive Queries Under Primary Key Constraints
        arXiv
 Paraschos Koutris,  Jef Wijsen, PODS '15
- Answering Conjunctive Queries with Inequalities
        arXiv
        slides
 Paraschos Koutris, Dan Suciu, Sudeepa Roy, Tova Milo, ICDT '15
- Skew in Parallel Query Processing
      arXiv
      slides
 Paul Beame, Paraschos Koutris, Dan Suciu, PODS '14
- A Dichotomy on the Complexity of Consistent Query Answering for Atoms with Simple Keys
      arXiv
      slides 
 Paraschos Koutris, Dan Suciu, ICDT '14
- Communication Steps for Parallel Query Processing
      arXiv
      slides
 Paul Beame, Paraschos Koutris, Dan Suciu, PODS '13
-  Toward Practical Query Pricing with QueryMarket
      slides
 Paraschos Koutris, Prasang Upadhyaya, Magdalena Balazinska, Bill Howe, Dan Suciu, SIGMOD '13
- Query-based Data Pricing
      slides
 Paraschos Koutris, Prasang Upadhyaya, Magdalena Balazinska, Bill Howe, Dan Suciu, PODS '12
-  Parallel Skyline Queries
      slides
 Foto N. Afrati, Paraschos Koutris, Dan Suciu, Jeffrey D. Ullman, ICDT '12
- Online Sum-Radii Clustering
      arXiv
 Dimitris Fotakis, Paraschos Koutris, MFCS '12
- Parallel Evaluation of Conjunctive Queries 
      tech report
      slides
 Paraschos Koutris, Dan Suciu, PODS '11
 Journals 
        
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          Consistent Query Answering for Primary Keys in Datalog
 Paraschos Koutris, Jef Wijsen, TOCS 65(1) - 2021
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          Distribution Policies for Datalog
 Bas Ketsman, Aws Albarghouthi, Paraschos Koutris, TOCS 64(5) - 2020
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          Communication Steps for Parallel Query Processing
 Paul Beame, Paraschos Koutris, Dan Suciu, J. ACM 64(6) - 2017
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          Consistent Query Answering for Self-Join-Free Conjunctive Queries Under Primary Key Constraints
 Paraschos Koutris, Jef Wijsen, TODS 42(2) - 2017
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          Answering Conjunctive Queries with Inequalities
 Paraschos Koutris, Tova Milo, Sudeepa Roy, Dan Suciu, TOCS 61(1) - 2017
-  Query-Based Data Pricing
 Paraschos Koutris, Prasang Upadhyaya, Magdalena Balazinska, Bill Howe, Dan Suciu, J. ACM 62(5) - 2015
- Parallel Skyline Queries
 Foto N. Afrati, Paraschos Koutris, Dan Suciu, Jeffrey D. Ullman, TOCS 57(4) - 2015
- Online Sum-Radii Clustering
 Dimitris Fotakis, Paraschos Koutris, TCS 540 - 2014
 
  
   
  
            
            
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                       -  PC Chair :   BeyondMR '17
                       
-  Area Chair :   SIGMOD '26
                       
-  PC Member :   PODS ('17, '18, '20, '23,'26), VLDB ('17,'21), SIGMOD ('17, '18, '19, '20, '22, '24), ICDE ('17, '19, '22), ICDT ('19, '21, '25)
                       
-  Proceedings & Publicity Chair :   PODS '16