Periklis Andritsos

Periklis Andritsos holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto and a BSc degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Greece’s National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Before his return to the University of Toronto, he was a Professor at the Department of Information Systems at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Assistant Professor at the University of Trento, the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, as well as a Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Berlin.

Professor Andritsos’s research focuses on the analysis of large repositories and structure discovery in order to facilitate design and speed up querying, applying information-theoretic and probabilistic techniques to identify redundancies and errors in large repositories that grow in size and whose constraints (such primary keys) have been relaxed or lost over time. He developed a novel information-theoretic algorithm for clustering categorical data, called LIMBO, which has used in both academia and industry.

• Techcrunch 50 Award, 2009, As co-founder of the news-aggregation start-up Thoora.com