SCS PhD students Leman Akoglu and Mary McGlohon receive the ‘best paper’ award at PAKDD 2010. The paper is titled OddBall: Spotting Anomalies in Weighted Graphs by Leman Akoglu, Mary McGlohon and Christos Faloutsos and gives fast algorithms to spot strange nodes in large social networks.


PAKDD is one of the top data mining conferences. The paper was selected among 412 submissions, and 42 accepted full-papers.

Congratulations, Leman and Mary!