Before joining Impala and Cloudera, Ippokratis was member of the research staff at IBM Almaden Research Center. At IBM, he was member of the core team that designed and implemented the BLU column-store engine, which currently ships as part of IBM's DB2 LUW v10.5 with BLU Acceleration. Ippokratis received his PhD from the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the recipient of Best Demonstration awards at ICDE 2006 and SIGMOD 2011 and Best Paper runner up award at CIDR 2013. He is serving or has served as PC chair of DaMon 2015 and DaMoN 2014 and PC area chair for CIKM 2014.