Christos Faloutsos (original) (raw)
Current Position: Fredkin Professor of Computer Science.
Courtesy appointment: Electrical and Computer Engineering, CMU
Academic Degrees: Ph.D. and M.Sc. (University of Toronto.); B.Sc.(Nat. Tech. U. Athens)
**Short bio **and full CV in pdf; customized for funding agencies,2-page versions.
Up-to-date calendar: here
Other affiliations:
- Database group at CMU
- Machine Learning Department
- PDL (Parallel Data Lab) Past affiliations:
- Informedia (1997-2007)
- Computational Biology Department(2003-2015)
Research Interests:
- Data Mining for graphs and streams
- Fractals, self-similarity and power laws
- Indexing and data mining for video, biological and medical databases
- Data base performance evaluation (data placement, workload characterization)
Projects
Older
- Stream mining (SPIRIT)
- Graph Mining (NSF Grant No. IIS-0534205; additional support from IBM and PITA)
- Mining Biomedical and Network Data Using Tensors (NSF Grants No. IIS-0705359 and IIS-0705215).
- Drosophila embryo image mining (with Prof. Eric Xing) (NSF Grant No. DBI-0640543).
- Motion capture indexing and mining (with Profs. Jessica Hodgins, Nancy Pollard, Randy Pausch; and Amy Bruckman (GA Tech))
- Robust Inter-Domain Routing with Prof. Michalis Faloutsos (UCR) - NSF Grant No. CNS-0721736.
- III-CXT-Large: Collaborative Research: Interactive and Intelligent searching of biological images by query and network navigation with learning capabilities NSF Grant No. IIS-0808661
- Influence and Virus Propagation in Large Graphs NSF Grant No. IIS-1017415
Ongoing
- HCI:Small: Making Sense out of Large Graphs: Bridging HCI with Data Mining NSF Grant No. IIS-1217559
- PEGASUS project for Peta-Scale graph mining.
- BIGDATA:Mid-Scale:DA:Collaborative research:Big Tensor Mining: Theory, Scalable Algorithms and Applications.NSF Grant No. IIS-1247489.
- TWC: Medium: Collaborative: Know Thy Enemy: Data Mining Meets Networks for Understanding Web-Based Malware DisseminationNSF Grant No. CNS-1314632.
- III: Medium: Collaborative Research: Collective Opinion Fraud Detection: Identifying and Integrating Cues from Language, Behavior, and NetworksNSF Award No. IIS-1408924.
In the news:
- Oct. 2004: Ranked among the top 50 nurturers in information technology by a study at the Indian Institute of Science.
- Nov. 2005: Mentioned in the Greek newspaper 'To Vima' (full article, in Greek)
- Dec. 2005: Interview in the Dec. 2005 ACM SIGMOD record (Distinguished Database Profiles)
- Dec. 2006: CMU press release about the NetProbe project for auction fraud detection - joint work with Polo Chau, Shashank Pandit and Sam Wang. Also in
- Jan. 2009: (in Greek) Interview in the first student newsletter, (pp. 9-11) of the Athens University of Economics and Business. Also, coverage of NetProbe (pp. 12-13) . For more details, see the home page of the .mag newsletter.
- Oct. 2012: NSF press release 12-187on BIG DATA grants
- Fall 2016: 'Fraudar' paper Detection of fake twitter followers, fake yelp reviews etc. Joint work with Bryan Hooi, Hyun Ah Song, Alex Beutel, Neil Shah, Kijung Shin.
- Announcement of KDD'16 best paper award ; CMU news (and local copy); YouTube .
- NSF news (and local copy)
- NPR/WESA Pittsburgh news (and local copy)
- Digital trends (and local copy)
- FossBytes (and local copy)
- upGruv (and local copy)
- TrendHunter (and local copy)
- May 2021: 'InfoShield' for Human Trafficking Detection.
- CMU news article and local copy
- WPXI article and local copy of video clip
- Oct. 2022: 'TrafficVis' visualization for Human Trafficking Detection.
- CMU news article and local copy
Local news
- Pittsburgh and fracking: KDQA, Sept. 3: Large-Scale Marcellus Drilling May Be Coming To East Suburbs Of Allegheny Co.
New (March 2023): MetaPaper list of presentation suggestions
MetaPaper a.k.a. 'Lessons learned from 1000 research paper rejections' is out - tar-file and presentation arehere.
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