She received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki in 2007 and an M.S. from Purdue University in 2002. Before joining Boston University in 2009, she was a Research Scientist at IBM Research. Her work focuses on algorithmic data mining, with emphasis on time-series and social-network analysis. Evimaria has received the Microsoft Faculty Fellowship, and has been in the PC and Senior PC of many data-mining and database conferences including KDD, VLDB, and SIGMOD.