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
Danai’s dissertation wins multiple distinctions!
Oct 31, 2015
Danai's dissertation won both the nomination for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation award, as well as one of the three Honorable mentions for the SCS Doctoral Dissertation award. CMU/SCS is allowed to nominate two dissertations for the ACM award. The full announcement by the Dean is below: We are pleased to give you the 2015 selections for the SCS/ECE Nominations to ACM for the Doctoral Dissertation Award and the winner of the SCS Doctoral Dissertation award for 2015: ACM Nomination & Read More
CMU/SCS team wins ICDM ’10-year highest impact’ paper award.
Oct 15, 2015
CMU/SCS team and alumni win the ICDM 2015 10-year highest impact paper award, for the paper Fast Random Walk with Restart and Its Applications by Hanghang Tong, Christos Faloutsos, and Jia-Yu Pan. ICDM is one of the top data mining conferences. The paper had also won the 'best research paper' award that year. It shows how to quickly compute the so-called 'personalized random walk with restarts', to estimate node proximity, with applications in image captioning and co-authorship graphs. The paper Read More
CMU team wins ‘test of time’ award in ECML/PKDD 2015
Sep 8, 2015
The paper details are: Jure Leskovec, Deepayan Chakrabarti, Jon M. Kleinberg, Christos Faloutsos: Realistic, Mathematically Tractable Graph Generation and Evolution, Using Kronecker Multiplication. ECML/PKDD 2005: 133-145 ECML/PKDD is one of the top data mining conferences. Both Jure and Deepayan were SCS phd students in 2005, advised by Christos, while Jon was on sabbatical at CMU. Both Jure and Deepayan are now tenure-track faculty, at Stanford and U.Texas-Austin, respectively. The paper showed how to generate realistic graphs, using recursion and self-similarity. Read More
The Databaseology Lectures – Seminar Series (Fall 2015)
Aug 23, 2015
The CMU Database group is holding a semester-long seminar series with the leading developers of embedded database management systems. The Databaseology Lectures is designed to showcase some of the newer technologies available for embedded and mobile applications. Each speaker will present the implementation details of their respective systems and examples of the technical challenges that they faced when working with real-world customers. The list of confirmed speakers are: Sep 10 - Keith Bostic (WiredTiger) Sep 17 - D. Richard Hipp Read More
Alumna Prof. Leman Akoglu wins SDM best-paper award!
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
Summer 2015 Research Internships
Nov 17, 2014
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 2015. The project will be to develop a new open-source distributed main-memory database system from scratch. Thus, we are looking for candidates that have strong C/C++ and SQL programming skills. Interns will be paid a three-month summer salary (commensurate with skills and experience) and the cost of travel 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