His research examines the interactions of database systems and hardware, with a focus on in-memory query execution and transaction processing. Spyros received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was also working in the Microsoft Jim Gray Systems Lab. He has a strong interest in seeing research ideas transition into usable products, and part of his doctoral dissertation was commercialized as the "Hekaton" in-memory optimization in Microsoft SQL Server 2014. http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~sblanas/