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Prof. Andy Pavlo wins 2019 NSF CAREER Award

Mar 10, 2019

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — Complacency is our biggest enemy. It lulls the mind into laziness. It makes us not question how things should be because we take for granted that this how things have always been done. This is especially true in databases where the market is established and well-endowed incumbents are entrenched. Thus, it takes resolution and pluck to challenge this world and strive for something better. With this in mind, the CMU Database Group is pleased to announce that Read More

Flavio Figueiredo wins 1st place in two out of the three tasks of the ECML/PKDD Predictive Analytics Challenge

Oct 3, 2014

Flavio was a visiting scholar with the database group at SCS during 2014-15. The challenge was to predict the popularity of a web page time series using 1h of data. Popularity was measured in the number of visits, Facebook likes and mentions the page receives on Twitter. The target time for predictions was 48h. Thus, given 1h worth of activity, the task was to predict the popularity (= amount of activity) of a page, for the next 48 hours. Flavio's Read More

Prof. Andy Pavlo wins SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award

Jun 30, 2014

Snowbird, Utah — When champions are made, it is a momentous occasion that is often heralded by the alignment of stars in the heavens. Notable events such as this are often marked by women becoming prone to weep with joy and children singing songs about it for years to come. In this vein, the CMU Database Group is proud to announce that their very own Prof. Andy Pavlo has won the 2014 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation award. This prestigious Read More

Danai in the news!

May 24, 2014

Danai and the Microsoft researchers Paul Bennett and Eric Horvitz studied information-seeking behavior and access to alternative versus reinforcing viewpoints for strongly polarizing topics. In particular, they analyzed the search and browsing behavior on the gun control debate following a shocking news event, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newtown, Connecticut. The paper is at: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1405.1486v1.pdf The MIT Tech Review article is at: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/527311/sandy-hook-the-gun-control-debate-and-the-insidious-influence-of-the-filter-bubble/ Other press coverage includes: http://www.technology.org/2014/05/13/ideological-internet-bubbles-stay-strong-study-shows/# Read More

DB alumni mentioned in the MIT technology review!

Dec 18, 2013

Prof. Hanghang TONG (MLD phd) and Prof. Leman Akoglu (CSD phd) worked on analyzing the correlation between quality of questions and quality of answers, in "stack-overflow" - their paper is on the web: http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.6876 The MIT-tech-review article can be found at http://www.technologyreview.com/view/522171/data-mining-reveals-the-secret-to-getting-good-answers/ Congratulations, Hanghang and Leman! Read More

U Kang is chosen as finalist, for the KDD-dissertation award!

Jul 26, 2013

Prof. U Kang, SCS Alumni, is chosen as the finalist for the 2013 KDD Dissertation Award, which is the highest honor for a data mining thesis. His dissertation is titled "Mining Tera-Scale Graphs: Theory Read More

SCS team, alumni and colleagues attract the Best Paper award in CIKM’12!

Nov 1, 2012

The paper gives fast, scalable algorithms to strengthen (or weaken) a network, by careful edge additions (or removals), and gives applications on real graphs. The full citation is: The first two authors are SCS alumni (2010 and 2012, resp.), advised by the last author, SCS faculty Prof. Christos Faloutsos. CIKM is one of the top conferences in information retrieval and data mining with 1099 articles submitted this year, and only 146 of them accepted as full papers. Read More

Polo wins dissertation distinction!

Oct 24, 2012

Prof. Polo Chau wins the SCS Honorable Mention for his dissertation. Polo defended his dissertation with title "Data Mining Meets HCI: Making Sense Read More

Lei Li wins distinction!

Jul 16, 2012

Dr. Lei Li (SCS, phd'11) won the prestigious KDD best dissertation award (runner up), for his dissertation "Fast Algorithms for Mining Co-evolving Time Series". KDD is the premier Data Mining conference, with high competition from the best research groups in the world. Lei's thesis developed novel algorithms for forecasting, clustering and missing-value imputation for time sequences in a broad spectrum of settings, from motion-capture sequences to data-center monitoring to computer network ``BGP'' traffic mining. Warmest congratulations Lei! Read More

Mr. Alex Beutel wins NSF Fellowship!

Mar 24, 2012

We are delighted to announce that SCS doctoral student Mr. Alex Beutel was awarded the 2011 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, (to be applied 2012-2015). The amount is $30,000 per year for up to three years. Congratulations Alex! Read More