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CMU Wins SIGKDD 2016 ‘Best Research Paper’ Award

Aug 18, 2016

The Carnegie Mellon Database Group team won the Best Research Paper award in SIGKDD 2016 for their paper FRAUDAR: Bounding Graph Fraud in the Face of Camouflage. The authors were Bryan Hooi, Hyun Ah Song, Alex Beutel, Neil Shah, Kijung Shin, and Prof. Christos Faloutsos. KDD is the flagship data mining conference. The award ceremony was on Sunday Aug. 14, in San Francisco. The paper was selected out of over 700 submissions, and among 70 accepted papers. The paper gives Read More

Fall 2016 Open Student Positions

Aug 14, 2016

The Carnegie Mellon Database Group has several open positions for students in the 2016-2017 academic year. These positions are only available to current and recently graduated CMU students. The positions that are funded will be marked as "paid" and are only available to current CMU students. The unpaid positions are more research related, and thus can be part of an independent study or senior thesis project that could turn into a publication. We especially encourage students who are interested in Read More

Danai Koutra Wins 2016 SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award

Jul 8, 2016

CS alumna Prof. Danai Koutra (now faculty at the University of Michigan Ann-Arbor) won the SIGKDD 2016 Dissertation award, for her thesis Exploring and Making Sense of Large Graphs The thesis contributes fast algorithms for summarizing large graphs, both static as well as time-evolving, and for contrasting two or more graphs, with applications to brain wiring, social networks, collaboration networks and more. SIGKDD is the premier conference for large-scale data mining. The competition for the dissertation award is fierce, with Read More

CMU Team Wins 2016 SIGKDD ‘Test of Time’ Award

Jul 8, 2016

CMU team wins the ‘Test of Time’ award at KDD 2016 for their 2005 paper: Graphs Over Time: Densification Laws, Shrinking Diameters and Possible Explanations Jure Leskovec, Jon Kleinberg, and Christos Faloutsos KDD is the flagship conference for large-scale data mining. Jure was a phd student at SCS/MLD (and currently a professor at Stanford). Jon was visiting CMU for his sabbatical. The paper made the surprising discoveries that real graphs become denser over time, following a power-law pattern, and that Read More

Vagelis and Leman win ‘best paper’ awards in SDM’16

May 22, 2016

SIAM SDM is one of the top conferences in data mining. Specifically, Vagelis  attracted the 'best student paper award', with his single-author paper on tensors   Evangelos E. Papalexakis, Automatic Unsupervised Tensor Mining with Quality Assessment There, Vagelis showed how to measure the goodness of a tensor decomposition, and how to automatically determine the correct rank of such a decomposition. Moreover, CMU/SCS alumna Prof. Leman Akoglu, and her student,  attracted the 'best  paper runner-up award' for their paper on anomaly Read More

Joy Arulraj Wins 2016 Samsung PhD Fellowship

Apr 23, 2016

CMU DB Ph.D. student and teenage heartthrob Joy Arulraj won a Samsung 2017 PhD Fellowship in the area of Software and Memory System Solutions for Data Centers. Joy's research is on developing the novel database management system architectures for emerging non-volatile memory technologies to support modern hybrid transactional/analytical processing (HTAP) applications. The Samsung PhD Fellowship program awards outstanding graduate students working on cutting-edge research for innovative solutions to their fields’ biggest problems. More information about the Samsung PhD Fellowship program. Read More

Dana Van Aken Wins 2016 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship

Apr 11, 2016

CMU DB Ph.D. student Dana Van Aken won a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. Dana's research is focused on using machine learning techniques for automatic database management system tuning and configuration. NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship Program supports outstanding student researchers pursuing graduate degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics who demonstrate the potential to have a significant impact in their fields. Almost 17,000 students applied for a total of 2,000 fellowships awarded nationwide. More Information about the NSF Graduate Fellowship Read More

Vagelis invited to Dagstuhl

Mar 29, 2016

Vagelis has been invited to participate in Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop,"Tensor Computing for Internet of Things" (16152), to be held at Schloss Dagstuhl in Germany from Sunday, April 10 to Wednesday, April 13, 2016. Schloss Dagstuhl, a nonprofit institution with associates from eleven universities and research organizations, is one of the world's leading research centers in informatics. It has been hosting invitation-only Dagstuhl Seminars and Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshops since the center's founding in 1990. More information about Schloss Dagstuhl and our Read More

Alumnus win Lagrange Prize

Mar 19, 2016

Our alumnus, Jure Leskovec (PhD SCS/MLD, now at Stanford), won the prestigious Lagrange Prize. Established in 2008 by the CRT Foundation and coordinated by the ISI Foundation, the Lagrange Prize is part of the Lagrange Project, one of the most innovative European initiatives  dedicated entirely to studying complex systems and data science, where a culture of innovation is  encouraged through PHD scholarships and research grants. The Prize is the symbolic event of the Lagrange Project: a prestigious international acknowledgement – Read More

Summer 2016 Research Internships

Nov 1, 2015

The Carnegie Mellon Database Group is offering multiple internship positions for a special summer research project at its Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania campus. It will be an intense 12-week internship from June to August 2016. The project will be to work on a new open-source distributed database system from scratch. Thus, we are looking for candidates that have strong systems-level C/C++ programming skills. Interns will be paid a three-month summer salary (commensurate with skills and experience) and the cost of travel expenses. Read More