Vasiliki (Vasia) Kalavri is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Boston University, where she co-leads the Complex Analytics and Scalable Processing (CASP) Systems lab. Vasia and her team enjoy doing research on multiple aspects of (distributed) data-centric systems. Recently, they have been working on self-managed systems for data stream processing, systems for scalable graph Machine Learning, and systems for secure collaborative analytics. Before joining BU, Vasia was a postdoctoral fellow at ETH Zurich and received a joint PhD from KTH (Sweden) and UCLouvain (Belgium). Vasia has received several awards for her research, including an IBM Innovation Award for her PhD Dissertation in 2017 and the SIGMOD Systems Award in 2023. Vasia’s research lab has received funding from the NSF, and industry awards from Google, Samsung, and RedHat.