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Assistant Professor, Boston University | @BUCompSci | 🇬🇷🇨🇭🇺🇸

Boston, MA
Joined July 2011
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Manos Athanassoulis retweeted
It's time to remove laptops from classrooms. 24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images. The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
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Today is the new semester for @CMUDB's Intro to Database Systems! We're going harder into material than ever before. Projects are more challenging but you can use LLMs to help. We also have 10min talks each Wed from leading DB companies. Follow on YouTube: 15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fal…
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Manos Athanassoulis retweeted
🔔VLDB 2025 Keynote Preview: Join Stratos Idreos from @HarvardDASlab as he reimagines systems design in the AI era with his keynote on "Alphabets, Grammars, Calculators & the End of Hand-Crafted Systems". More details: vldb.org/2025/?program-sched… #VLDB2025 #DataSystems #AI
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📢📢VLDB 2026 will have a ShadowPC! Apply at forms.office.com/e/XYihKj4UK… by March 1! Great opportunity for folk who are new to the data management community and want to gain experience with paper reviewing. For more info, see the application form. Chairs: @zistvan, @wangtzh , & I.
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#NEDB2025 deadline extended to Dec 18th! Submit your posters and talks cmt3.research.microsoft.com/… More info: nedbday.github.io/2025/ Three exciting #keynotes by: Mike Stonebaker, MIT Dhruba Borthakur, OpenAI Jake Luciani, DataStax linkedin.com/posts/sarkarsub…
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Excited to share that we got three papers recently accepted that focus on delivering better indexing! A thread:
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(3) We design a variation of the round-robin file-picking policy that is very close to the optimal compaction, both in terms of performance stability and write amplification (to appear at EDBT). Pre-print: cs-people.bu.edu/mathan/publ…
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Kudos to all amazing collaborators and studens in these projects!
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Last week, at #SIGMOD2024, @BU_DiSClab gave five talks: 2 research papers in the main conference, 2 #DBTest workshop papers, and one invited talk in the 20th instance of #DAMON. I am also very thankful to receive the ACM SIGMOD Distinguished PC Member award for the third time.
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Manos Athanassoulis retweeted
Here some images from my keynote "making data management better with vectorized execution" in SIGMOD 2024 in Santiago, Chile. Thanks @SIGMODConf for having me! It is an honor. slides: bit.ly/sigmod2024-keynote (with speaker notes)
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Replying to @SIGMODConf
@sigmodconf @sigmod #ARI awards for #SIGMOD23 papers are out: sigmod.org/sigmod-awards/sig… Congratulations to all winners! #BestArtifact: InfiniFilter: Expanding Filters to Infinity and Beyond (doi.org/10.1145/3589285) by Niv Dayan, Ioana Bercea, Pedro Reviriego, Rasmus Pagh (1/3)
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#SIGMOD #ARI awards are out: sigmod.org/sigmod-awards/sig… #HonorableMention * DeltaBoost: Gradient Boosting Decision Trees with Efficient Machine Unlearning (doi.org/10.1145/3589313) by Zhaomin Wu, Junhui ZHU, Qinbin Li, Bingsheng He (2/3)
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#SIGMOD #ARI awards are out: sigmod.org/sigmod-awards/sig… #HonorableMention * A Step Toward Deep Online Aggregation (doi.org/10.1145/3589269) by Nikhil Sheoran, Supawit Chockchowwat, Arav Chheda, Suwen Wang, Riya Verma, Yongjoo Park (3/3)
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The SIGMOD #Availability & #Reproducibility (ARI) results for #SIGMOD2023 papers are now out: reproducibility.sigmod.org/! ACM link to papers with reproduced results: dl.acm.org/action/doSearch?f… ACM link to papers with available artifacts: dl.acm.org/action/doSearch?f… @sigmod @SIGMODConf
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#HDMS2024 submission deadline is in one week! Submit your talk proposal via cmt3.research.microsoft.com/… More details on HDMS website: acmsigmod.gr/hdms/2024/ #Hellenic #DataManagement
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We have a few more tickets for #NEDB2024! Please send your students! While we cannot offer lunch/parking to any of the later registrations, we will have a #StudentPizzaNetworkingSession open to all. Registration: eventbrite.com/e/north-east-… Program: bu-disc.github.io/nedbday/20…
#NEDB24 program is out bu-disc.github.io/nedbday/20… We have 3 exciting keynotes, 14 talks, and 44 posters! Registration is now open: eventbrite.com/e/north-east-… Enjoy this wonderful program at NEDB24, held at BU's new iconic CCDS! #NEDB #BU #CCDS photo credit: bostonrealestatetimes.com
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Manos Athanassoulis retweeted
Excited to speak at this next month!
#NEDB24 program is out bu-disc.github.io/nedbday/20… We have 3 exciting keynotes, 14 talks, and 44 posters! Registration is now open: eventbrite.com/e/north-east-… Enjoy this wonderful program at NEDB24, held at BU's new iconic CCDS! #NEDB #BU #CCDS photo credit: bostonrealestatetimes.com
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