4 papers
A Multi-aspect Analysis of Gender Bias on Online Student Evaluations
Sofia Maria Nikolakaki, Joseph Lai, Evimaria Terzi
Institutions widely use student evaluations to assess the faculty's teaching performance, but underlying trends and biases can influence their interpretation. Using data from Rate…
Finding teams that balance expert load and task coverage
Sofia Maria Nikolakaki, Mingxiang Cai, Evimaria Terzi
The rise of online labor markets (e.g., Freelancer, Guru and Upwork) has ignited a lot of research on team formation, where experts acquiring different skills form teams to complet…
Competitive Balance in Team Sports Games
Sofia M Nikolakaki, Ogheneovo Dibie, Ahmad Beirami +3
Competition is a primary driver of player satisfaction and engagement in multiplayer online games. Traditional matchmaking systems aim at creating matches involving teams of simila…
An Efficient Framework for Balancing Submodularity and Cost
Sofia Maria Nikolakaki, Alina Ene, Evimaria Terzi
In the classical selection problem, the input consists of a collection of elements and the goal is to pick a subset of elements from the collection such that some objective functio…