Evimaria Terzi
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Professor and Associate Chair for Academics |
About
At BU I am a member of the Data Management Lab@BU.
My research interests are in the area of machine learning and algorithmic data mining
with emphasis
on applications such as team formation, (social) network analysis, recommendation systems and
urban informatics.
Research Highlights
My Google Scholar page is here.
My most recent research statement is here (updated Dec. 2025)
My most recent CV is here (updated Dec. 2025)
Awards and Funding
My research is funded by the following sources:
Microsoft Faculty Fellowship (2010)
NSF award on Entity Selection and
Ranking for Data Mining Applications (2012-2016)
NSF CAREER award on On identifying collections with complex objectives (2013-2018)
NSF award on Managing and
Mining Uncertain Graphs (2013-2016)
NSF award on Structural Matrix Completion for Data-Mining Applications,
(2014-2017) Award: 1421759
NSF Award: “ SCOPE: A smart-city Cloud-based Open Platform and Ecosystem", (2014-2017)
Nokia Fellowship Nokia Visiting Professor Fellowship for visiting Aalto
University, Helsinki, Finland; (7000 euros), 2016
NSF Award: “Team Engineering: Algorithms and Practical Applications” (2018-2021)
Hariri Institute Faculty grant: “ Team Formation: Algorithms and Practical
Applications”, (in collaboration with BU Spark), ($ 40K), 2018
Gifts from Yahoo! and Google.
Students
I am working with the following students:
Iasonas Nikolaou (PhD student)
Karan Vombatkere (PhD student)
Angelos Poulis (PhD student)
Kevin Quinn (PhD student)
Alumni
Sofia Nikolakaki (PhD 2020, Research Scientist at Apple)
Harshal Chaudhari (PhD 2021, Engineer at Etsy)
Charalampos Mavroforakis (PhD 2018,
currently engineer at Facebook)
Behzad Golshan (PhD 2016, currently at Google)
Natali Ruchansky (PhD 2016, currently at Netflix)
Dora Erdos (PhD 2014, currently lecturer
and undergraduate program director at BU)
Esther Galbrun (post-doc, now a Researcher in INRIA)
Theodoros Lappas (post-doc, now an Assistant Professor at
Economic University of Athens)
George Brova (MA/BA student, now at AWS)
Recent papers
Karan Vombatkere, Aristides Gionis, Evimaria Terzi: Forming coordinated teams that balance task coverage and expert workload. Data Min. Knowl. Discov. 39(3): 19 (2025).
Pedro Calais, Gabriel Franco, Zilu Tang, Themistoklis Nikas, Wagner Meira Jr., Evimaria Terzi, Mark Crovella: Disentangling Text and Math in Word Problems: Evidence for the Bidimensional Structure of Large Language Models’ Reasoning. ACL (Findings) 2025.
Iasonas Nikolaou, Konstantinos Pelechrinis, Evimaria Terzi: Understanding Team Collapse via Probabilistic Graphical Models. KDD (1) 2025.
Karan Vombatkere, Theodoros Lappas, Evimaria Terzi: A QUBO Framework for Team Formation. ECML/PKDD (2) 2025.
Iasonas Nikolaou, Miltiadis Stouras, Stratis Ioannidis, Evimaria Terzi: Online Two-Stage Submodular Maximization. NeurIPS (2025).
Teaching
This semester (Fall 2025) I am teaching CS 565: ‘‘Algorithmic Data Mining" targeting advanced undergraduate and graduate students.
My office hours are: Wed: 12pm-1pm and Thur: 9am-11am.
In Spring 2025 (and Summer 2025), I have taught a new course called ‘‘Algorithms to Live By", based on the book by Brian Christian and Thomas L. Griffiths. This class targeted CS majors, minors and friends and offered an understanding of how computer-science concepts are applied to everyday life.