News
Three new PhD students join the CASPLab
This fall, we welcome three new PhD students to the group: Naima Abrar Shami, Eli Baum, and Sam Buxbaum.
New research award from NSF
PI Vasia Kalavri has received an NSF award to support her project "Scaling Graph Machine Learning Workloads on Modern Storage" for the next 3 years.
Vineet Raju and Iman Attia join the CASP lab this summer
We are excited to welcome Vineet Raju, UROP grant recipient, and Iman Attia, senior at The American University in Cairo, as research assistants this summer. Vineet and Iman will be working on the Secrecy project.
Paper accepted at USENIX Security ’23
Our paper "TVA: A multi-party computation system for secure and expressive time series analytics", authored by Muhammad Faisal, Jerry Zhang, John Liagouris, Vasiliki Kalavri, and Mayank Varia, was accepted for publication at USENIX Security '23. TVA is a multi-party computation system for secure analytics on secret-shared time series data that achieves... More
Vasia Kalavri is a co-recipient of the ACM SIGMOD’23 Systems Award
The SIGMOD Systems Award is awarded to an individual or set of individuals to recognize the development of a software or hardware system whose technical contributions have had significant impact on the theory or practice of large-scale data management systems. This year the award recognizes Apache Flink, which greatly expanded... More
CASPLab at NSDI’23
This week, at the USENIX NSDI'23 conference in Boston, we presented SECRECY and released the code as open source. Check it out! We also presented work-in-progress projects during the poster session.
CASPLab members present posters at NEDB Day 2023
CASPLab students and faculty participated in the North East Database Day 2023 conference with three posters: 1. Emmanouil Kritharakis, Po Hao Chen, Yuchen Lu,Vasiliki Kalavri. "Scaling GNN training to billion-edge graphs on a single machine" 2. Muhammad Faisal, Vasiliki Kalavri, John Liagouris, Mayank Varia. "Towards a scalable generic MPC framework with configurable guarantees" 3.Yuanli... More
Autoscaling research makes its way into Apache Flink
The latest Apache Flink Kubernetes Operator release includes an autoscaler component based on the OSDI'18 paper "Three steps is all you need: fast, accurate, automatic scaling decisions for distributed streaming dataflows" co-authored by Vasiliki Kalavri and John Liagouris. We are glad to see our research impact and very grateful to... More
CASP receives Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Awards
We are grateful to the BU Red Hat Collaboratory for the following 2023 Research Incubation Awards: 1. Towards high performance and energy efficiency in open-source stream processing (PIs: Vasiliki Kalavri, Jonathan Appavoo) 2. Serverless Streaming Graph Analytics (PI: Vasiliki Kalavri) Read the full announcement here.
Multiple open positions for PhD students and postdocs
The CASP Systems lab has multiple open positions for PhD students and postdocs. We invite applications from strong candidates who are interested in scalable data stream processing, systems for large-scale graph analysis and machine learning, and systems for privacy-preserving data analytics. To apply for a PhD position, submit your materials by... More