Vasiliki Kalavri, Boston University

Vasiliki (Vasia) Kalavri is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Boston University, where she co-leads the Complex Analytics and Scalable Processing (CASP) Systems lab.

Vasia and her team enjoy researching multiple aspects of data-centric systems. They have recently focused on designing self-managed systems for data stream processing, scaling graph Machine Learning training on modern storage, and developing practical solutions for private collaborative analytics with Multi-party Computation. Before joining BU, Vasia was a postdoctoral fellow at ETH Zurich, where she was awarded the ETH Zurich Postdoctoral Fellowship. She received her PhD from KTH, Stockholm, and UCL, Belgium, where she was admitted to a double doctoral program as an EMJD-DC fellow. Vasia's PhD thesis, "Performance Optimization Techniques and Tools for Distributed Graph Processing '' won the IBM Innovation Award 2017. Several awards, including an NSF SaTC Medium, Hariri Institute Focused Research Program, and industry awards from Google, Samsung, and RedHat, support Vasia's research.