MiDAS Group

MiDAS.

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

Data Mining

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

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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Aneesh Raman, Konstantinos Karatsenidis, Shaolin Xie, Matthaios Olma, Subhadeep Sarkar, Manos Athanassoulis
EDBT, 2025 | External link

Benchmarking, Analyzing, and Optimizing WA of Partial Compaction in RocksDB

Ran Wei, Zichen Zhu, Andrew Kryczka, Jay Zhuang, Manos Athanassoulis
EDBT, 2025 | External link

Towards Reliable Latent Knowledge Estimation in LLMs: Zero-Prompt Many-Shot Based Factual Knowledge Extraction

Qinyuan Wu, Mohammad Aflah Khan, Soumi Das, Vedant Nanda, Bishwamittra Ghosh, Camila Kolling, Till Speicher, Laurent Bindschaedler, Krishna P. Gummadi, Evimaria Terzi
WSDM, 2025 | External link

Targeted Least Cardinality Candidate Key for Relational Databases

Vasileios Nakos, Hung Q. Ngo, Charalampos E. Tsourakakis
ICDT, 2025 | External link

Q-DISCO: Query-Centric Densest Subgraphs in Networks with Opinion Information

Tianyi Chen, Atsushi Miyauchi, Charalampos E. Tsourakakis
WSDM, 2025 | External link

The Price of Privacy: A Performance Study of Confidential Virtual Machines for Database Systems

Lina Qiu, Rebecca Taft, Alexander Shraer, George Kollios
DaMoN, 2024 | External link

CAVE: Concurrency-Aware Graph Processing on SSDs

Tarikul Islam Papon, Taishan Chen, Shuo Zhang, Manos Athanassoulis
Proc. ACM Manag. Data, 2024 | External link

CUBIT: Concurrent Updatable Bitmap Indexing

Junchang Wang, Manos Athanassoulis
Proc. VLDB Endow., 2024 | External link

Effortless Locality on Data Systems Using Relational Fabric

Tarikul Islam Papon, Ju Hyoung Mun, Konstantinos Karatsenidis, Shahin Roozkhosh, Denis Hoornaert, Ahmed Sanaullah, Ulrich Drepper, Renato Mancuso, Manos Athanassoulis
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng., 2024 | External link