SIAM SDM is one of the top conferences in data mining. Specifically, Vagelis  attracted the ‘best student paper award’, with his single-author paper on tensors

•   Evangelos E. Papalexakis, Automatic Unsupervised Tensor Mining with Quality Assessment

There, Vagelis showed how to measure the goodness of a tensor decomposition, and how to automatically determine the correct rank of such a decomposition. Moreover, CMU/SCS alumna Prof. Leman Akoglu, and her student,  attracted the ‘best  paper runner-up award’ for their paper on anomaly detection

• Bryan Perozzi, Leman Akoglu, Scalable Anomaly Ranking of Attributed Neighborhoods

Congratulations, Vagelis and Leman!