Theodoros Lappas

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I am a post-doctoral researcher and member of the Data Management Lab at the Computer Science Department at Boston University, working with Professor Evimaria Terzi on Data Mining Problems, Customer Review Analytics, Opinion Mining and Social Graphs. I am also a Visiting Fellow at the Rafik B. Hariri Institute at Boston University.

My research interests include Data Mining, Machine Learning, Web Search, and Algorithmic e-commerce. I am particularly interested in challenging problems from the domain of Social Media.

I got my PhD from the Dept. of Computer and Science Engineering at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), with a specialization in Data Mining and Social Media. While in UCR, I was a member of the Database Lab, working with Prof. Dimitrios Gunopulos and Prof. Vassilis Tsotras. The title of my thesis is "Algorithmic Challenges in Social Media Search". I received my Bachelor's in Informatics from the Athens University of Economics and Business, with a specialization in Information Systems.

Theodoros Lappas, Marcos Vieira , Dimitrios Gunopulos and Vassilis Tsotras
STEM: A SpatioTemporal Miner for Bursty Activity - SIGMOD 2013 (Demo)
Theodoros Lappas, and Evimaria Terzi
Daily-Deal Selection for Revenue Maximization - CIKM 2012	Download		Bibtex
Theodoros Lappas, and Michalis Vlachos
Customizing Searh Results for Non-Native Speakers - CIKM 2012	Download		Bibtex
Theodoros Lappas, George Valkanas and Dimitrios Gunopulos
Efficient and Domain-Invariant Competitor Mining - SIGKDD 2012	Download	Slides	Bibtex
Aris Gionis Theodoros Lappas, and Evimaria Terzi
Estimating Entity Importance via Counting Set Covers - SIGKDD 2012	Download	Slides	Bibtex
Theodoros Lappas, Mark Crovella and Evimaria Terzi
Selecting a Characteristic Set of Reviews - SIGKDD 2012	Download	Slides	Bibtex
Theodoros Lappas, Marcos Vieira , Dimitrios Gunopulos and Vassilis Tsotras
On the Spatiotemporal Burstiness of Terms - VLDB 2012	Download	Slides	Bibtex
Theodoros Lappas
Fake Reviews: The Malicious Perspective - NLDB 2012	Download	Bibtex
Behzad Golshan, Theodoros Lappas and Evimaria Terzi
Sofia Search: A Tool for Automating Related-Work Search - SIGMOD 2012 (Demo)	Download	Bibtex
Theodoros Lappas and Evimaria Terzi
Toward a Fair Review Management System - ECML/PKDD 2011	Download	Bibtex
Theodoros Lappas, Kunal Punera and Tamas Sarlos
Mining Tags Using Social Endorsement Networks - SIGIR 2011	Download	Bibtex
Theodoros Lappas and Michail Vlachos
Ranking German Texts by Comprehensibility for Foreign Document Retrieval -
ENIR 2011
Theodoros Lappas, Kun Liu and Evimaria Terzi
A Survey of Algorithms and Systems for Expert Location in Social Networks
Book chapter from Social Network Data Analytics, pages 215-242, 2011	TOC	Bibtex
Theodoros Lappas, Evimaria Terzi, Dimitrios Gunopulos and Heikki Mannila
Finding Effectors in Social Networks - SIGKDD 2010	Download	Bibtex
Theodoros Lappas and Dimitrios Gunopulos
Efficient Confident Search in Large Review Corpora - ECML/PKDD 2010	Download	Bibtex
Theodoros Lappas and Dimitrios Gunopulos
Interactive Recommendations in Social Endorsement Networks - RECSYS 2010	Download	Bibtex
Theodoros Lappas, K. Pelechrinis, M.Faloutsos and S.V.Krishnamurthy
A Simple Conceptual Generator for the Internet Graph - LANMAN 2010 (invited paper)		Bibtex
Theodoros Lappas, Kun Liu and Evimaria Terzi
Finding a Team of Experts in Social Networks - SIGKDD 2009	Download	Bibtex
Theodoros Lappas, Benjamin Arai, Manolis Platakis, Dimitrios Kotsakos and Dimitrios Gunopulos
On Burstiness-Aware Search for Document Sequences - SIGKDD 2009	Download	Bibtex

Email: tlappas[at]cs[dot]ucr[dot]edu

Address:
Computer Science Department MCS 280
Boston University
111 Cummington Street
Boston, MA, 02215