About Me
Hello! I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences (KFCIS) at Florida International University (FIU). Before joining FIU, I was a postdoctoral Fritz family fellow in the Massive Data Institute (MDI) of McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2020, and my Bachelor in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras, Greece.
My research interests include data mining, recommender systems, the application of machine learning techniques within educational contexts, and the fairness concerns that arise from their use. My goal is to help students succeed using data and machine learning models. At the same time, I am interested in ensuring that such models will be fair and responsible.
Contact
Email: apolyzou@fiu.edu
Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences
11200 SW 8th Street
Miami, FL 33199
Students
- Md Akib Zabed Khan, PhD student
- Spring 2025: Akib received the prestigious Dissertation Fellowship (DF), funded by the University Graduate School, FIU!
- Neila Bennaname, PhD student
- Fall 2024: Neila received the GAANN Fellowship from KFCIS, funded by the U.S. Department of Education!
- Guy Pavilus, Master's student
- Darien Diaz Rivera, Master's student
- Nancy Lopez, Master's student
- Daniela Zaccardi Canela, Master's student
- Osmel Cereijo, Master's student
Past Master's Students
- Gabriel Prieto Puche - "Exploring Collaborative Success of Undergraduate Students within a Cyberlearning Environment Using Gamification"
- Darwin Sadineni - "Course Characteristics and Student Enrollment Analysis"
- Maria Sanchez & Rafael Linarez - "Integrated Health Monitoring Using Wearable Devices"
- Steven Morales - "Predicting Music Sequences with Machine Learning"
- Nicholas Gonzalez - "Course Characteristics and Student Enrollment Analysis"
- Kerrie Hopper - "An NLP analysis of AI Ethics Syllabi"
- Anthony Athens - "Predicting Baseball Games Winners Using Data from Baseball Savant"
- Andrea Garcia - "Predicting Future-Term Student Performance Based on Historical Enrollment Data"
Publications
Grants
- NOAA National Sea Grant, 09/2024-08/2027, $2,327,898, "AI-powered characterization of solids and microplastics in stormwater runoff and their mitigation via green and gray infrastructure in urban coastal areas" PIs: A. Ebrahimian, A. Braswell, L. Scinto, P. Gardinali, H. Vatankhah, A. Polyzou, D. Luo
- DUE 2130398, NSF, 07/2021-06/2026, $1,898,240, "Florida Information Technology Graduation Attainment Pathways" PIs: Mark Weiss, Stephen Secules, Tiana Solis, Agoritsa Polyzou, Leonardo Bobadilla (Former Co-PIs: Liting Hu, Selcuk Uluagac)
- IUSE:EDU 2315647, NSF, 08/2023-07/2026, $399K, "Augmented Learning for Environmental Robotics Technologies: A Data-Driven Approach for Sustainable Built Environments" PI: S. Vassigh, Co-PIs: B. Bogosian, E. Peterson, G. Reis, A. Polyzou
- IIS 2323492, NSF, 08/2023-11/2024, $25K, "Travel: Student Support for the 2023 ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2023)" PI: A. Polyzou
Teaching
- CAP 5771 - Principles of Data Mining (graduate level) - Fall 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, Spring 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
- CAP 4770 - Introduction to Data Mining (undergraduate level) - Spring 2022
- CIS 5931 - Special Topics: AI Ethics (graduate level) - Spring 2024, 2025