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Massive Data, Algorithms, and Systems Group @ BU

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MiDAS @ BU CS is a team of faculty and students that work on the research challenges of converting data to knowledge: from foundational algorithmic and systems challenges to the development of practical applications with domain scientists.

Research directions

Data Analytics

Data Analytics

data-driven algorithmics, scalable algorithmics, systems for data analytics, harnessing and modeling networks, machine learning

Data Mining

Data Mining

mining uncertain graphs, social network analysis, team formation, matrix completion, entity selection

Data Systems

Data Systems

cloud data systems, secure data systems, spatial data systems, indexing, approximate query processing, uncertain graph management

Selected Recent Publications


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Doquet: Differentially Oblivious Range and Join Queries with Private Data Structures

Lina Qiu, Georgios Kellaris, Nikos Mamoulis, Kobbi Nissim, George Kollios
Proc. VLDB Endow., 2023 | External link

An Efficient Local Search Algorithm for Correlation Clustering on Large Graphs

Nathan Cordner, George Kollios
COCOA, 2023 | External link

Data Structures for Data-Intensive Applications: Tradeoffs and Design Guidelines

Manos Athanassoulis, Stratos Idreos, Dennis E. Shasha
Found. Trends Databases, 2023 | External link

NOCAP: Near-Optimal Correlation-Aware Partitioning Joins

Zichen Zhu, Xiao Hu, Manos Athanassoulis
Proc. ACM Manag. Data, 2023 | External link

On-the-fly Data Transformation in Action

Ju Hyoung Mun, Konstantinos Karatsenidis, Tarikul Islam Papon, Shahin Roozkhosh, Denis Hoornaert, Ulrich Drepper, Ahmed Sanaullah, Renato Mancuso, Manos Athanassoulis
Proc. VLDB Endow., 2023 | External link

Enabling Timely and Persistent Deletion in LSM-Engines

Subhadeep Sarkar, Tarikul Islam Papon, Dimitris Staratzis, Zichen Zhu, Manos Athanassoulis
ACM Trans. Database Syst., 2023 | External link

Software-Shaped Platforms

Renato Mancuso, Shahin Roozkhosh, Denis Hoornaert, Ju Hyoung Mun, Tarikul Islam Papon, Manos Athanassoulis
CPS-IoT Week Workshops, 2023 | External link

Relational Memory: Native In-Memory Accesses on Rows and Columns

Shahin Roozkhosh, Denis Hoornaert, Ju Hyoung Mun, Tarikul Islam Papon, Ahmed Sanaullah, Ulrich Drepper, Renato Mancuso, Manos Athanassoulis
EDBT, 2023 | External link

ACEing the Bufferpool Management Paradigm for Modern Storage Devices

Tarikul Islam Papon, Manos Athanassoulis
ICDE, 2023 | External link

Relational Fabric: Transparent Data Transformation

Tarikul Islam Papon, Ju Hyoung Mun, Shahin Roozkhosh, Denis Hoornaert, Ahmed Sanaullah, Ulrich Drepper, Renato Mancuso, Manos Athanassoulis
ICDE, 2023 | External link

Indexing for Near-Sorted Data

Aneesh Raman, Subhadeep Sarkar, Matthaios Olma, Manos Athanassoulis
ICDE, 2023 | External link

The LSM Design Space and its Read Optimizations

Subhadeep Sarkar, Niv Dayan, Manos Athanassoulis
ICDE, 2023 | External link

Acheron: Persisting Tombstones in LSM Engines

Zichen Zhu, Subhadeep Sarkar, Manos Athanassoulis
SIGMOD Conference Companion, 2023 | External link

Balancing Task Coverage and Expert Workload in Team Formation

Karan Vombatkere, Evimaria Terzi
SDM, 2023 | External link

Densest Diverse Subgraphs: How to Plan a Successful Cocktail Party with Diversity

Atsushi Miyauchi, Tianyi Chen, Konstantinos Sotiropoulos, Charalampos E. Tsourakakis
KDD, 2023 | External link

Node-Differentially Private Estimation of the Number of Connected Components

Iden Kalemaj, Sofya Raskhodnikova, Adam D. Smith, Charalampos E. Tsourakakis
PODS, 2023 | External link

People

Faculty

Mark Crovella

Professor

George Kollios

Professor

Evimaria Terzi

Professor

Charalampos Tsourakakis

Assistant Professor

Manos Athanassoulis

Assistant Professor

Researchers

Andy Huynh

PhD Researcher

Tarikul Islam Papon

PhD Researcher

Zichen Zhu

PhD Researcher

Lina Qiu

PhD Researcher

Tianyi Chen

PhD Researcher

Ju Hyoung Mun

Postdoctoral Researcher

Aneesh Raman

PhD Researcher

Karan Vombatkere

PhD Researcher

Gabriel Franco

PhD Researcher

Teona Bagashvili

PhD Researcher

Konstantinos Karatsenidis

PhD Researcher

Iasonas Nikolaou

PhD Researcher

Kevin B Quinn

PhD Researcher

Themistoklis Nikas

PhD Researcher

Alumni

Konstantinos Sotiropoulos

PhD (Next: Postdoc at CMU)

Nathan Cordner

PhD (Next: Faculty at Utah Valley University)

Subhadeep Sarkar

Postdoc (Next: Faculty at Brandeis University)

Dmytro Bogatov

PhD (Next: AWS)

Bashir Rastegarpanah

PhD (Next: Fiddler AI)

Harshal Chaudhari

PhD (Next: Etsy)

Sofia Maria Nikolakaki

PhD (Next: Apple)

Dimitris Staratzis

Grad Researcher (Next: TileDB)

Charalampos Mavroforakis

PhD (Next: Facebook)

Sanaz Bahargam

PhD (Next: Twitter)

Georgios Kellaris

Postdoc (Next: Co-Founder at Kalepso)

Natali Ruchansky

PhD (Next: Postdoc at USC)

Behzad Golshan

PhD (Next: Megagon Labs)

Xianrui Meng

PhD (Next: Amazon)

Haohan Zhu

PhD (Next: Facebook)

Dora Erdos

PhD (Next: Postdoc at Brown University)

Esther Galbrun

Postdoc (Next: Postdoc at INRIA Nancy)

Theodoros Lappas

Postdoc (Next: Faculty at Stevens Institute of Technology)

Michalis Potamias

PhD (Next: Groupon)

Marios Hadjieleftheriou

Postdoc (Next: AT&T Labs)

Panagiotis Papapetrou

PhD (Next: Postdoc at Aalto University)

Vassilis Athitsos

PhD & Postdoc (Next: Faculty at UT Arlington)

Feifei Li

PhD (Next: Faculty at Florida State University)

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