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 Publications

For more publications please visit our personal webpages.

Opinion Dynamics Optimization by Varying Susceptibility to Persuasion via Non-Convex Local Search

Rediet Abebe, T.-H. Hubert Chan, Jon M. Kleinberg, Zhibin Liang, David C. Parkes, Mauro Sozio, Charalampos E. Tsourakakis
ACM Trans. Knowl. Discov. Data, 2022 | External link

Constructing and Analyzing the LSM Compaction Design Space

Subhadeep Sarkar, Dimitris Staratzis, Zichen Zhu, Manos Athanassoulis
Proc. VLDB Endow., 2021 | External link

Transparent Data Transformation - Can I have my Rows and eat my Columns too

Manos Athanassoulis
SIGMOD Rec., 2021 | External link

The Need for a New I/O Model

Tarikul Islam Papon, Manos Athanassoulis
CIDR, 2021 | External link

A Parametric I/O Model for Modern Storage Devices

Tarikul Islam Papon, Manos Athanassoulis
DaMoN, 2021 | External link

Reducing Bloom Filter CPU Overhead in LSM-Trees on Modern Storage Devices

Zichen Zhu, Ju Hyoung Mun, Aneesh Raman, Manos Athanassoulis
DaMoN, 2021 | External link

An Efficient Framework for Balancing Submodularity and Cost

Sofia Maria Nikolakaki, Alina Ene, Evimaria Terzi
KDD, 2021 | External link

DeepWalking Backwards - From Embeddings Back to Graphs

Sudhanshu Chanpuriya, Cameron Musco, Konstantinos Sotiropoulos, Charalampos E. Tsourakakis
ICML, 2021 | External link

Triangle-aware Spectral Sparsifiers and Community Detection

Konstantinos Sotiropoulos, Charalampos E. Tsourakakis
KDD, 2021 | External link

Smurf-Based Anti-money Laundering in Time-Evolving Transaction Networks

Michele Starnini, Charalampos E. Tsourakakis, Maryam Zamanipour, André Panisson, Walter Allasia, Marco Fornasiero, Laura Li Puma, Valeria Ricci, Silvia Ronchiadin, Angela Ugrinoska, Marco Varetto, Dario Moncalvo
ECML/PKDD, 2021 | External link