Konstantinos (Kostas) Kanellis
kkanellis[at]cs.wisc.edu

I am a Ph.D. student in the Computer Sciences Department at University of Wisconsin-Madison, working with Shivaram Venkataraman, and also collaborate with Microsoft Gray Systems Lab.
My research interests mostly lie in the area of computer systems, with a focus at the intersection of data systems and machine learning. My latest research aims at improving existing ML-based database tuning tools.
Before moving to Madison, I received a M.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Thessaly, Greece. In my undergraduate thesis, I worked with Christos D. Antonopoulos on characterizing programs behavior using low-level metrics that can be found on modern CPUs.
In the past, I have also interned at Microsoft Research, Redmond (2021), IBM Research - Zurich (2019), and CERN openlab (2017).
News
Sep '22
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Attended VLDB 2022 in the beautiful city of Sydney, and presented our LlamaTune work! 🇦🇺🦙 |
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Jun '22
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LlamaTune accepted at VLDB 2022! 🔥 |
Mar '22
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Preprint of our new work for sample-efficient DBMS configuration tuning is now available! |
Dec '21
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Passed my Ph.D. Qualifying Exams! 😄 |
May '21
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Excited to start my research internship at MSR Redmond in the Data Systems group! |
Jan '21
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Started as affiliate research assistant at Microsoft Gray Systems Lab! |
Jul '20
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Virtually presented our work on reducing the tuning time of storage systems at HotStorage ‘20! |