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General Information

Name Vasiliki (Vasia) Kalavri
Title Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Boston University
email vkalavri[at]bu.edu

Academic Appointments

  • 2020 - now
    Tenure-Track Assistant Professor
    Department of Computer Science, Boston University
  • 2019
    Adjunct Assistant Professor
    Department of Computer Science, Boston University
  • 2017 - 2019
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Education

  • 2012 - 2016
    PhD in Information and Communication Technology
    KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
  • 2010 - 2012
    MSc in Information and Communication Technology
    KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
  • 2004 - 2010
    MEng in Electrical and Computer Engineering
    National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Honors and Awards

  • 2025
    • NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award
    • Distinguished Artifact Award at SOSP
    • VLDB Distinguished Reviewer Award
  • 2024
    • Digital Futures Summer Early Career Scholar
    • DaMoN’24 Best Paper Award
  • 2023
    • ACM SIGMOD Systems Award
    • ACM SIGMOD Best Reviewer Award
    • Confluent Community Catalyst
    • VLDB Distinguished Reviewer Award
  • 2022
    • DEEM Best Paper Award
  • 2020
    • USENIX HotStorage Outstanding New Research Direction Award
  • 2017
    • IBM Innovation Award
    • ETH Zürich Postdoctoral Fellowship

Research Funding

  • 2025 - 2029
    CAREER: Adaptive resource management and reconfiguration mechanisms
    • National Science Foundation
    • USD 676,807
  • 2023 - 2025
    CNS: CORE: Small: Scaling Graph Machine Learning Workloads on Modern Storage
    • National Science Foundation
    • USD 469,787
  • 2023
    Towards high performance and energy efficiency in open-source stream processing
    • RedHat Research Incubation Award
    • USD 174,876
    • co-PI: Jonathan Appavoo
  • 2022
    Serverless Streaming Graph Analytics
    • RedHat Research Incubation Award
    • USD 85,000
  • 2022
    Towards high performance and energy efficiency in open-source stream processing
    • RedHat Research Incubation Award
    • USD 150,000
    • co-PI: Jonathan Appavoo
  • 2022
    SaTC: CORE: Medium: Secure outsourced analytics in untrusted clouds.
    • National Science Foundation
    • USD 749,952
    • PI: John Liagouris, co-PI: Mayank Varia
  • 2022
    Google DAPA (Data Acquisition, Processing and Analytics) Faculty Award
    • Google
    • USD 50,000
  • 2021
    Serverless Streaming Graph Analytics
    • RedHat Research Incubation Award
    • USD 85,000
  • 2021
    Towards high performance and energy efficiency in open-source stream processing
    • RedHat Research Incubation Award
    • USD 150,000
    • co-PI: Jonathan Appavoo
  • 2021
    Continuous Analysis of Mobile Health Data among Medically Vulnerable Populations.
    • Hariri Institute Focused Research Program
    • USD 150,000
    • co-PIs: Lisa Quantilliani, Nicole Spartano
  • 2021
    Google DAPA (Data Acquisition, Processing and Analytics) Faculty Award
    • Google
    • USD 50,000
  • 2021
    SSD-aware Context Serving for Streaming Graph Representation Learning
    • Samsung Memory Solutions Lab UR Collaboration Grant
    • USD 85,000
  • 2020
    Google DAPA (Data Acquisition, Processing and Analytics) Faculty Award
    • Google
    • USD 50,000