Foto N. Afrati is a Greek computer scientist whose research involves distributed computing, distributed database queries, and approximation algorithms, especially using MapReduce. She is a retired professor in the School of Electrical and Computing Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens.^[1]

Afrati studied electrical and mechanical engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, earning a diploma in 1976. She completed a PhD in 1980 at Imperial College London, with the dissertation Error Correcting Codes by Algorithms,^[2] supervised by Anthony G. Constantinides.^[3]

After postdoctoral research in electrical engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, she obtained a position there as lecturer in computer science in 1982. She was promoted to assistant professor in 1985, associate professor in 1989, and full professor in 1993.^[2]

Afrati is a coauthor of the book Answering Queries Using Views (with Rada Chirkova, Synthesis Lectures on Data Management, Morgan & Claypool, 2017; 2nd ed., 2019). She is also an author of two Greek-language textbooks.^[2]

Afrati was named as an ACM Fellow in 2014, "for contributions to the theory of database systems".^[4]

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