Teona Bagashvili

PhD Student in Computer Science

Boston University

I am a PhD researcher in Computer Science at Boston University advised by Prof. Manos Athanassoulis. My research focuses on storage systems, databases, flash memory, and specialized hardware. Recently I have been working on SSD controller design for Zoned Namespace (ZNS) SSDs and hardware-aware data management.

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Teona Bagashvili

News

Jun 2025
Presenting our paper ACE-in-Action: A Smart DBMS Bufferpool for SSDs @ SIGMOD 2025!
Jul 2024
Presenting a poster @ VLDB Summer School 2024!
Jun 2024
Attending Dagstuhl Summer School 2024!
May 2024
Presenting a poster @ Northeast Database Day (NEDB)

Publications and Talks

2025

ACE-in-Action: A Smart DBMS Bufferpool for SSDs

Teona Bagashvili, Tarikul Islam Papon, Manos Athanassoulis

SIGMOD 2025

Paper
2024

ZNS SSDs: Architectural Insights and Performance Analysis

Teona Bagashvili, Manos Athanassoulis

VLDB Summer School Poster Session

Event
2021

Natural Language Descriptions of Deep Visual Features

Evan Hernandez, Sarah Schwettmann, David Bau, Teona Bagashvili, Antonio Torralba, Jacob Andreas

ICLR 2021

Paper
2021

Committing to Writing Good Commit Messages

Teona Bagashvili, Gregory M. Kapfhammer

PyCon Lightning Talk Session

Presentation
2021

Language-Based Image Editing with Neuron Captions

Teona Bagashvili, Evan Hernandez, Jacob Andreas

MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP) Poster Session

Event

Resume

Education

2022 - Present

PhD in Computer Science

Boston University, Boston, MA

Advisor: Prof. Manos Athanassoulis

2018 - 2022

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Allegheny College, Meadville, PA

Cum Laude, Dean’s List

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Last updated: October 2025

Teaching Assistant

CAS CS 391: Computer and Memory Architectures

Boston University — Fall 2025

CAS CS 561: Data Systems Architecture

Boston University — Spring 2025

CAS CS 210: Computer Systems

Boston University — Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023

CAS CS 111: Introduction to Computer Science

Boston University — Summer 2023

CMPSC 100: Introduction to Computer Science

Alegheny College — Fall 2019, Spring 2020

FS101: First Year Seminar

Alegheny College — Fall 2022

Get in Touch

Email

teona@bu.edu

Office

CCDS 941
Boston University
Boston, MA 02215