Senior Lecturer & Director of Undergraduate Studies
Boston University
Department of Computer Science
office: CDS910 at 665 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.
email: edori at bu edu
I am a senior lecturer and serve as the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the
Department of Computer Science at Boston University. Prior to this I was
the Undergraduate Program Director.
I was a postdoctoral research associate at Brown University under the
supervision of Prof. Ben Raphael.
I completed my PhD at Boston University, where I was fortunate to have Prof.
Evimaria Terzi as my advisor. I received
my MSc degree in pure mathematics from Eotvos University under the
supervision of Prof. Andras Frank.
As part of my role as DUS I work with students on issues related to
academic advising.
Your primary point of contact for academic advising are our amazing
professional academic advisors. Please check out the
information on our advising staff here .
You can reach me via email or during my advising hours: Academic advising in person in CDS 910 and via Zoom link :
Fall 2024: drop-in Fri 10:30 -12:30 pm
If you have a
question regarding the class you are taking with me, then please come to
the office hours listed on the class syllabus.
I am interested in algorithmically challenging problems. I have been
working on questions in data mining and combinatorial
optimization. Many of the problems I am working on are
defined on networks or can be modeled by one.
CS330 Introduction to Analysis of
AlgorithmsFall 2024 (Spring 2017 - present, each
semester)
CS630 Graduate Algorithms Fall 2024 (Fall 2022)
CS365 Foundations of Data Science Spring
2021 (F19) CS565 Algorithmic Data Mining
Fall 2018 CS131Combinatoric Structures Summer1 2019 (S19)
As a TF:
CS591 Algorithmic Techniques for Large Problems
(Summer 2014)
CS330 Introduction to Analysis of Algorithms
(Fall 2012)
MA/CS109 The Art and Science of Quantititive Reasoning
(Fall 2011)
CS101 Introduction to Computer Science (Summer 2011) Graphs and Algorithms at Eotvos
University (Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2009)
Senior Lecturer , Boston
University, Boston MA 2022 - Present Director of Undergraduate Studies , Boston
University, Boston MA 2021 - Present Undergraduate Program Director , Boston
University, Boston MA 2017 - 2021 Lecturer, Boston
University, Boston MA 2017 - 2022 Postdoctoral Research Associate , Brown University,
Providence RI 2015 - 2016 PhD in Computer Science , Boston
University, Boston MA 2010 - 2015 Researcher , Inst. of Comp. Sci. and Control, Hungarian Academy
of Sciences 2008 - 2009 Diploma (MSc equivalent) in Mathemathics Eotvos University, Budapest
2003 - 2008
More information can be found in my
Curriculum Vitae (pdf).
J2.Dora Erdos, Andras Frank, Krisztian Kun, Sink-stable Sets of Digraphs, SIAM journal of Discrete
Mathematics (SIDMA), vol. 28, Issue 4, pp. 1651 –
1674, 2014 (pdf) J1.Dora Erdos, Rainer Gemulla, Evimaria Terzi, Reconstructing Graphs from Neighborhood Data,
ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), Volume 8 Issue 4, Article No.
23, ACM New York, NY, USA, August 2014 (pdf) (code)
Refereed conference publications
C10. Charalampos Mavroforakis, Dora Erdos, Mark Crovella,
Evimaria Terzi, Active Positive-Definite Matrix Completion, SIAM Data
Mining SDM 2017. C9. Sanaz Bahargam, Dora Erdos, Azer Bestavros, Evimaria
Terzi, Personalized Education; Solving a Group Formation and
Scheduling Problem for Educational Content, Educational Data Mining
(EDM) 2015, Madrid, Spain (pdf) C8.Dora Erdos, Vatche Ishakian, Azer
Bestavros, Evimaria Terzi, A Divide-and-Conquer Algorithm for Betweenness
Centrality, SIAM Data Mining Conference (SDM),2015, Vancouver,
Canada,(pdf)
(extended version pdf) (code) C7.Dora Erdos, Pauli Miettinen, Walk’N’Merge: A ScalableAlgorithm for Boolean Tensor Factorization,
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, (ICDM), 2013, Dallas, TX, December
2013 (pdf) (
code zip file) C6.Dora Erdos, Pauli Miettinen, Discovering Facts with Boolean Tensor Tucker Decomposition, Conference
on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), San Francisco, CA, USA, October
2013 (pdf) C5.Dora Erdos, Vatche Ishakian, Azer Bestavros, Evimaria Terzi, Repetition-Aware Content Placement
in Navigational Networks, ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data
Mining (SIGKDD), Chicago, IL, USA, August, 2013 (pdf) C4.Dora Erdos, Rainer Gemulla, Evimaria Terzi, Reconstructing Graphs from Neighborhood Data,
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
Brussels, Belgium, December 2012 (pdf) (slides) C3.Dora Erdos, Vatche Ishakian, Andrei Lapets, Evimaria Terzi, Azer Bestavros, The Filter Placement
Problem and its Application to Minimizing Information Multiplicity, International Conference
on Very Large DataBases (VLDB), Istanbul, Turkey,
August 2012 (pdf) (code) C2. Vatche Ishakian, Dora Erdos, Evimaria Terzi, Azer Bestavros, A Framework for the Evaluation
and Management of Network Centrality, SIAM Data Mining Conference (SDM), Anaheim, CA,
April, 2012 (pdf) (slides) C1.Dora Erdos, Zsolt Fekete, Andras Lukacs, Visualized subgraph search, IEEE Visual Analytics
Science and Technology (VAST), Atlantic City, PA, USA, October, 2009
Preprints
P2.Dora Erdos, Vatche Ishakian, Azer Bestavros, and Evimaria Terzi, A Divide-and-Conquer Algorithm
for Betweenness Centrality, arXiv:1406.4173 (code) P1.Dora Erdos, Pauli Miettinen, Scalable Boolean Tensor Factorizations using Random Walks,
arXiv:1310.4843
