Themis Palpanas is a faculty member of computer science at the University of Trento, Italy. He received the BS degree from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and the MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Toronto, Canada. Before joining the University of Trento, he worked at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He has also worked for the University of California, Riverside, and visited Microsoft Research and the IBM Almaden Research Center. His interests include data management, data analysis, streaming algorithms, and business process management. He is the author of five US patents, three of which have been implemented in world-leading commercial data management products targeted to multi-billion dollar markets. He is the recipient of two Best Paper awards (ICDE 2010 and ADAPTIVE 2009). He is a founding member of the Event Processing Technical Society, and is serving on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Information Systems Journal and as an Associate Editor in the Journal of Intelligent Data Analysis. He has served on the program committees of several top database and data mining conferences, including SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, KDD, and ICDM.