Computer Science Faculty
Cristina Maier
Assistant Professor of the Practice
Cristina Maier
Ph.D.
Contact
245 Beacon Street Room 128
Telephone: 617-552-0140
Email: cristina.maier@bc.edu
Education
- B.S., Computer Engineering
- M.S., Computer Science
- Ph.D., Computer Science
Courses
Recommender Systems
Data Science Methods and Applications
Principles of Data Science
Databases
Computer Science II
Research Interests
Data Science
Autonomous Systems
Clustering
Recommender Systems
Big Data
Fairness in AI/ML
Department
Biography
Cristina Maier’s primary research interests lie in data science, data-driven systems, and adaptive algorithms, with a particular focus on recommender systems, clustering methods, autonomous systems, big data storage and analytics technologies, fairness in AI/ML, graph and hypergraph modeling, and optimization problems. In addition to her teaching and research experience, she also brings industry experience in data science, mapping and autonomous systems, big data and analytics technologies, educational data mining, game analytics, and distributed data systems.
Selected Publications
- C. Maier, R. Baker - Can GPT Detect Gaming the System in Text Replays?, 33rd International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2025
- C. Saadat, C. Maier, D.Simovici - Exploring Compression as a Proxy for Mineability in LLM-Generated Text, 27th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, SYNASC 2025
- C. Maier, I. Slavic, R. Baker, S. Stalzer - Studying Memory Decay and Spacing within Knowledge Tracing, Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computers in Education. ICCE 2023
- C. Maier, D. Simovici - Bipartite graphs and Recommendation Systems. Journal of Advances in Information Technology. JAIT 2022
- C. Maier, R. Baker, S. Stalzer - Challenges to Applying Performance Factor Analysis to Existing Learning Systems. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computers in Education. Asia- Pacific Society for Computers in Education, ICCE 2021
- C. Maier, D. Simovici - On Biclique Connectivity of Bipartite Graphs and Recommendation Systems. ICISDM 2021
- C. Maier, D. Simovici - Saturated Betweenness Centrality of Sets of Vertices in Graphs. Journal of Advances in Information Technology. JAIT 2021
- C. Maier, D. Simovici -Laplacian Centrality of Sets of Vertices of Graphs. MLDM 2020
- C. Maier, D. Simovici - Betweenness Centrality of Sets of Vertices in Graphs: which Vertices to Associate. ICISDM 2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3404663.3404679
- C. Maier, D. Dash, I. Alaggianis, A. Ailamaki - PARINDA: an interactive physical designer for PostgreSQL. EDBT 2010: 701-704. https://doi.org/10.1145/1739041.1739131
- D. Dash, I. Alagiannis, C. Maier, A. Ailamaki - Caching all plans with just one optimizer call. ICDE 2010: 105-110. doi: 10.1109/ICDEW.2010.5452737.
Patents
- Methods, apparatus, and computer program product for data quality analysis (granted 2020)
- Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for performing index search optimization (granted 2017)