Markos Markakis

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Experience

Work Experience

09/2026 - Amazon Web Services
Applied Scientist II (L5) - Boston, MA
  • Part of the AWS AI Fundamental Research Organization.
  • Working on data systems and semantic abstractions that help AI agents find, understand, and use data and organizational knowledge.
05/2025 - 08/2025 Amazon Web Services
Applied Scientist Intern - Boston, MA
  • Interned with the Learned Systems Group within Amazon Redshift.
  • Developed ML models for workload tail latency prediction on Redshift Serverless, enabling improved cost-efficient scaling under production workloads.
05/2023 - 08/2023 Amazon Web Services
Applied Scientist Intern - Boston, MA
  • Interned with the Learned Systems Group within Amazon Redshift.
  • Designed and evaluated techniques to accelerate recurring Redshift workloads and improve latency for enterprise data warehousing customers.
06/2021 - 08/2021 Intel Corporation
Graduate Research Intern - Munich, Germany
  • Interned remotely with the US-based Intel Cloud Enterprise Solutions Group.
  • Explored solutions for leveraging persistent memory technology for key-value stores.
06/2019 - 08/2019 McKinsey & Company
Summer Business Analyst Intern - Athens, Greece
  • Helped a prominent organization of over 7000 employees redefine its strategic vision after a major leadership change and shifts in market conditions.
  • Contributed to corporate governance restructuring recommendations presented directly to the CEO of the client company.
  • Joined an international team as the domestic expert to help an organization rethink the staffing and work allocation paradigm in one of its most business-critical units.
06/2018 - 08/2018 EY (Ernst & Young)
Performance Improvement Intern - Athens, Greece
  • Contributed to a software suite which analyzed the product data of an international retail client to provide actionable business insights.
  • Designed and developed a machine learning tool that facilitates sentiment analysis of intra-organizational feedback comments.

Education

06/2022 - 08/2026

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

09/2020 - 05/2022

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Science (SM)
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

09/2016 - 06/2020

Princeton University
Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE), Summa Cum Laude
Electrical Engineering