Markos Markakis, PhD
I am an Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where I work on data systems and semantic abstractions that help AI agents find, understand, and use data and organizational knowledge. More broadly, my research interests lie at the intersection of data systems and artificial intelligence, with a focus on building reliable, efficient, and usable infrastructure for AI applications.
I completed my PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the Data Systems Group of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During my time at MIT, I was advised by Prof. Tim Kraska and collaborated closely with Michael Cafarella and Prof. Samuel Madden. My doctoral research explored how machine learning and causal inference can be used to diagnose performance problems and automatically manage complex data systems.
Before MIT, I earned my Bachelor's of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.) in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, alongside a certificate (minor) in Applications of Computing. For my undergraduate thesis, I had the honor of working with Prof. Margaret Martonosi on efficient memory consistency testing, as well as on formal verification for the DECADES project.
Open-Source Code
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AutoSLO Practical Latency SLOs on Cloud Data Warehouses |
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LOGos From Logs to Causal Diagnosis of Large Systems (formerly "Sawmill") |
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ECCS Interactive Causal Graph Verification |
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BRAD Blueprinting the Cloud: Unifying and Automatically Optimizing Cloud Data Infrastructures |
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TreeLine An Update-In-Place Key-Value Store for Modern Storage |
News
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2025/12/14 | The Difficult Road of Repatriation
[in Greek] Ta Nea, Athens, Greece |
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2025/06/23 | Building brain bridges to the Greek
diaspora [Opinion] Kathimerini, Athens, Greece |
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2025/06/10 | Press coverage of the first Hellenic
American Meeting of Early-Career
Researchers [in Greek] iefimerida, Athens, Greece |
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2024/12/10 | CSAIL Alliances Student Spotlights:
Markos Markakis MIT CSAIL, Cambridge, MA, USA |
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2021/12/10 | University Survival Guide: Markos
Markakis '16 [in Greek] Anatolia College Alumni News, Thessaloniki, Greece |
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2020/06/02 | Graduates recognized for innovation,
service and perseverance Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA |
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2019/04/10 | Student Profile by the Princeton
Center for Statistics and Machine
Learning by Sharon Adarlo Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA |
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2018/09/10 | Markakis, a junior, honored at
Opening Exercises by Jamie Saxon Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA |
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2016/12/15 | Architectural ethics is focus of
freshman seminar by Laurie Zazenski Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA |
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2016/06/17 | Anatolia College students achieve
excellent international college
admission
results [in Greek] Anatolia College Press Release, Thessaloniki, Greece |