My student Mr. Tianyi Chen defended yesterday successfully his thesis titled as “Dense Subgraph Discovery: Novel Algorithms and Applications”. The committee was composed of Prof. George Kollios, Prof. Evimaria Terzi, and Dr. Atsushi Miyauchi. Tianyi focused on addressing dense subgraph discovery issues in contemporary graph datasets, including uncertain graphs, multilayer networks, and graphs containing opinion […]

I had the honor to organize this year’s panel for the 10th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA). While social media platforms have enabled global connectivity, empowering voices and democratizing information, they have also inadvertently become conduits for the spread of false narratives and misleading information. The implications of this extend […]

Today, we are commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Computer Science department at Boston University and I had the honor to represent the data group as the speaker. Here’s a historical snapshot from the inaugural annual report (thanks to the department chair Abraham Matta), indicating the establishment of the Computer Science department. Steve Homer and […]