Posted: August 14, 2016 ┃ Category: Annoucements

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 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 Read More

Posted: July 8, 2016 ┃ Category: Awards

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 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 Read More

Posted: July 8, 2016 ┃ Category: Awards

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 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 Read More

Posted: May 22, 2016 ┃ Category: Awards

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 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 Read More

Posted: April 23, 2016 ┃ Category: Fellowship

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. 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 Read More

Posted: April 11, 2016 ┃ Category: Fellowship

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 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 Read More

Posted: March 29, 2016 ┃ Category: Awards

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 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 Read More

Posted: March 19, 2016 ┃ Category: Awards, In-the-News

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 – 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 Read More