Boris is a database expert. His experience includes several decades of both industrial and academic activities such as design, development, and tuning database, teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels, leading post-graduate research groups and advising dozens of PhD students. His research interests are in the broad area of information management and include design, development, and tuning of databases, applications, and database management systems (DBMSs). He also has interests in distributed scalable systems for stream processing and analytics. Boris is an author of 4 books and over 150 research papers.