Assistant Professor
Vasiliki (Vasia) Kalavri is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Boston University and a co-director of the Complex Analytics and Scalable Processing (CASP) Systems lab.
Vasia’s research sits at the intersection of distributed systems and data management. Recently, she and her students have been focusing on self-managed systems for data stream processing, scalable ML serving systems, and systems for privacy-preserving collaborative analytics.
Before joining BU, Vasia was a postdoctoral fellow at ETH Zurich, where she was awarded the ETH Zurich Postdoctoral Fellowship. She received her PhD from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden and Universite Catholique de Louvain in Belgium, after completing a joint doctoral program as an EMJD-DC fellow. Vasia received her undergraduate diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NTUA, Greece.
Recent Publications
Koala: Non-disruptive Reconfiguration for Long-running Stateful Dataflows.
Lei Huang, Sakshi Sharma, Chenxu Yu, Zikun Wang, Yuanli Wang, Zichen Zhu, John Liagouris, and Vasiliki Kalavri.
The 24th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI’27).
CryptDough: A unified analytics engine for secure multiparty computation.
Muhammad Faisal, Alessandra Lanz, Sam Buxbaum, Adam Godel, Vasiliki Kalavri, Mayank Varia, and John Liagouris.
In Proceedings of the ACM SIGOPS 32nd Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP’26).
Disaggregated State Management in Apache Flink 2.0
Yuan Mei, Zhaoqian Lan, Lei Huang, Yanfei Lei, Han Yin, Rui Xia, Kaitian Hu, Paris Carbone, Vasiliki Kalavri, and Feng Wang.
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2025.
Recent Awards
ACM SIGMOD’26 Distinguished Reviewer Award
NSF CAREER Award (2025)
VLDB’25 Distinguished Reviewer Award
ACM SIGMOD Systems Award (2023)