Neoklis Polyzotis is currently an associate professor at UC Santa Cruz. His research focuses on database systems, and in particular on approximate query answering, on-line database tuning, and P2P databases. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award in 2004 and of an IBM Faculty Award in 2005 and 2006. He has also received the runner-up for best paper in VLDB 2007 and the best newcomer paper award in PODS 2008. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2003.