Jure wins the ACM SIGKDD Dissertation Award!
Posted: May 21, 2009 ┃ Category: Awards
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 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 Read More
Polo wins Yahoo KSC Program Award
Posted: May 15, 2009 ┃ Category: Awards
Mr. Polo Chau wins a Yahoo Key Technical Challenge grant! The grant is awarded to a limited number of exceptional Ph.D. students and it carries a gift of $5,000 unrestricted funds to support their research activities. The award also includes an exclusive invitation to the KSC graduate student Summit, where Polo will have the chance to get feedback and interact with some of the best Yahoo scientists. Congratulations, Polo! Mr. Polo Chau wins a Yahoo Key Technical Challenge grant! The grant is awarded to a limited number of exceptional Ph.D. students and it carries a gift of $5,000 unrestricted funds to support their research activities. The award also includes Read More
Babis’ paper among the best in ICDM’08
Posted: January 28, 2009 ┃ Category: Awards
Charalampos (Babis) Tsourakakis had a paper that was invited for fast-track publication, as one of the best in ICDM'08. Babis is a PhD student at SCS/MLD. ICDM is one of the top data mining conferences, and the paper gives an extremely fast method (1000x faster) to compute triangles in social networks. The details of the paper are "Fast Counting of Triangles in Large Real Networks Charalampos (Babis) Tsourakakis had a paper that was invited for fast-track publication, as one of the best in ICDM'08. Babis is a PhD student at SCS/MLD. ICDM is one of the top data mining conferences, and the paper gives an Read More
Jimeng Sun, SCS alumni ’07, wins the prestigious ‘best paper’ award in ICDM’08
Posted: January 7, 2009 ┃ Category: Awards
ICDM is one of the top data mining conferences. The paper proposed MET (Memory Efficient Tucker) decomposition, to handle large sparse tensors, a vital problem for time-evolving graphs, among other applications. The paper citation is: T. G. Kolda and J. Sun, "Scalable Tensor Decompositions for Multi-aspect Data Mining ICDM is one of the top data mining conferences. The paper proposed MET (Memory Efficient Tucker) decomposition, to handle large sparse tensors, a vital problem for time-evolving graphs, among other applications. The paper citation is: T. G. Kolda and J. Read More
Jimeng Sun wins runner-up for SIGKDD best dissertation award
Posted: July 1, 2008 ┃ Category: Awards
Dr. Jimeng Sun (Ph.D. CMU-CSD 2007) attracted the runner-up award for the best SIGKDD dissertation. Jimeng's dissertation is on tensor and stream mining, proposing novel and efficient methods to handle streams of numerical data, as well as streams of graphs. He applied his methods on chlorine monitoring in the drinking water (joint project with Prof. Jeanne VanBriesen of CIT/CMU), on monitoring the self-star data center of PDL/CMU (with Prof. Greg Ganger and his group), and also on monitoring computer traffic Dr. Jimeng Sun (Ph.D. CMU-CSD 2007) attracted the runner-up award for the best SIGKDD dissertation. Jimeng's dissertation is on tensor and stream mining, proposing novel and efficient methods to handle streams of numerical data, as well as streams of graphs. Read More