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 […]

Mr. Kostas Sotiropoulos, my PhD advisee, has successfully defended his thesis “Methods, Algorithms and Impossibility Results for Machine Learning on Graphs”. Defending a PhD thesis requires extensive research, critical thinking, and the ability to present and defend one’s ideas in front of a committee of experts. It is an impressive accomplishment that demonstrates Mr. Sotiropoulos’s […]