Vasiliki Kalavri

SEC scholar September 2024

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 doing research on multiple aspects of (distributed) data-centric systems. Recently, they have been working on self-managed systems for data stream processing, scalable graph Machine Learning systems, and secure collaborative analytics systems. Before joining BU, Vasia was a postdoctoral fellow at ETH Zurich and received a joint PhD from KTH (Sweden) and UCLouvain (Belgium). Vasia has received several awards for her research, including an IBM Innovation Award for her PhD Dissertation in 2017 and the SIGMOD Systems Award in 2023. Vasia’s research lab has received funding from the NSF and industry awards from Google, Samsung, and RedHat.

During the visit, I plan to strengthen my collaboration with the Data Systems Lab and explore research problems concerning data-driven system design, serverless computing, distributed databases, AI, data stream platforms, and graph query systems. We further plan to investigate synergies between Orb DB, a knowledge graph database system developed at KTH, and Secrecy, a multi-party computation (MPC) system for secure collaborative analytics developed at Boston University. We believe that leveraging MPC techniques for privacy-preserving graph learning can potentially lead to a new and fruitful research exploration.

Contact: vkalavri@bu.edu