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

Nov 5, 2010

U Kang is selected for the NSF Student Travel Award to attend the International Conference on Data Mining conference 2010 in Sydney, Australia. The award includes US $865 to cover the expenses incurred for attending the conference. Congratulations U! Read More

Oct 13, 2010

SCS team wins 3rd position (silver prize) in the Open Source Software World Challenge 2010, among 26 competing submissions. The team consists of graduate SCS students Mr. U Kang and Mr. Polo Chau, and advisor Christos Faloutsos, with several more contributors, listed on the project web site. The award includes $2000, plus travel expenses to accept the prize. The PEGASUS system is able to mine billion-node graphs, using parallelism and specifically, 'hadoop'. Code, documentation, instructions video and related papers are Read More

Sep 24, 2010

Leman Akoglu wins the Google Conference and Travel grant for the ECML/PKDD 2010 that is offered to two female students to encourage more female computer scientists to attend and participate in the ECML/PKDD conference. The grant includes free registration for the main conference and up to 300 Euros for travel costs from Google. Congratulations Leman! Read More

Sep 24, 2010

We are delighted to announce that Leman AKOGLU attracted the Best Knowledge Discovery Paper award in PKDD 2009, out of 105 papers that were accepted in the conference, and out 422 submissions. The paper was also accepted for publication in the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal, for the ECML PKDD 2009 special issue. The paper is titled RTG: A Recursive Realistic Graph Generator using Random Typing by Leman Akoglu and Christos Faloutsos, ECML PKDD, Bled, Slovenia, Sep. 2009. ECML/PKDD Read More

May 21, 2009

Prof. Jure Leskovec wins the prestigious ACM SIGKDD dissertation award! Jure defended his dissertation in MLD in September of 2009. The title is "Dynamics of Large Networks that hold for real graphs as well as several powerful tools to study blogs instant-message networks social networks like LinkedIn and other types of real graphs. ACM SIGKDD is the premier society for data mining research and the above award is the highest distinction for a Ph.D. dissertation in the area. The award Read More