May 7, 2015

SCS and database group alumna Prof. Leman Akoglu wins prestigious 'best paper' award! Leman is an assistant professor at Stonybrook (phd CMU '12), and she attracted the award at SDM, one of the flagship data mining conferences. The full citation is Where Graph Topology Matters: The Robust Subgraph Problem Hau Chan, Shuchu Han, and Leman Akoglu. SIAM SDM, Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 2015. The contributions are fast, practical algorithms to find well-connected sub-graphs, within a large, real graph, as well Read More

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

Jul 29, 2014

Danai is invited to the 2014 Rising Stars in EECS: An Academic Career Workshop for Women, which will be hosted by UC Berkeley's EECS Department on November 3rd and 4th, 2014. This workshop will bring together approximately 40 outstanding EECS graduate and postdoctoral women, for two days of scientific/technical information exchange and career-oriented discussions on topics including the pros/cons of academia, finding a faculty position, and keys to success as a junior faculty member. Danai will have the opportunity to Read More

Jul 29, 2014

The paper CatchSync : Catching Synchronized Behavior in Large Directed Graphs, by Meng Jiang, Peng Cui, Alex Beutel, Christos Faloutsos and Shiqiang Yang, was selected for fast-track publication, as one of the 9 best papers that will appear in KDD'14. The paper describes a novel, automatic method to spot lock-step behavior in large social networks. Lockstep behavior is usually a sign of fraud. Meng was a post-doc visitor at CMU, working on anomaly detection in large graphs. Congratulations, Alex and Read More

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

May 10, 2014

The Forum brings together winners of the Turing Award and Nevanlinna Prize (CS), as well as the Abel Prize and Fields Medal (math) for a week in Heidelberg. An international committee of experts selected 100 successful CS candidates from more than 40 countries around the world. Congratulations, Danai! Read More

Apr 30, 2014

SCS team and BBN and ARL collaborators win 'best student paper runner up' award, at PAKDD'14. The citation is: The paper describes a novel algorithm to spot time-evolving communities in large datasets. PAKDD is one of the top data mining conferences. The award ceremony will be on May 15,  in Tainan, Taiwan. Congratulations! Read More

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