Jul 29, 2014

Danai is invited to the 2014 Rising Stars in EECS: An Academic Career Workshop for Women, which will be hosted by UC Berkeley's EECS Department on November 3rd and 4th, 2014. This workshop will bring together approximately 40 outstanding EECS graduate and postdoctoral women, for two days of scientific/technical information exchange and career-oriented discussions on topics including the pros/cons of academia, finding a faculty position, and keys to success as a junior faculty member. Danai will have the opportunity to Read More

Jul 29, 2014

The paper CatchSync : Catching Synchronized Behavior in Large Directed Graphs, by Meng Jiang, Peng Cui, Alex Beutel, Christos Faloutsos and Shiqiang Yang, was selected for fast-track publication, as one of the 9 best papers that will appear in KDD'14. The paper describes a novel, automatic method to spot lock-step behavior in large social networks. Lockstep behavior is usually a sign of fraud. Meng was a post-doc visitor at CMU, working on anomaly detection in large graphs. Congratulations, Alex and Read More

Jun 30, 2014

Snowbird, Utah — When champions are made, it is a momentous occasion that is often heralded by the alignment of stars in the heavens. Notable events such as this are often marked by women becoming prone to weep with joy and children singing songs about it for years to come. In this vein, the CMU Database Group is proud to announce that their very own Prof. Andy Pavlo has won the 2014 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation award. This prestigious Read More

May 24, 2014

Danai and the Microsoft researchers Paul Bennett and Eric Horvitz studied information-seeking behavior and access to alternative versus reinforcing viewpoints for strongly polarizing topics. In particular, they analyzed the search and browsing behavior on the gun control debate following a shocking news event, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newtown, Connecticut. The paper is at: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1405.1486v1.pdf The MIT Tech Review article is at: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/527311/sandy-hook-the-gun-control-debate-and-the-insidious-influence-of-the-filter-bubble/ Other press coverage includes: http://www.technology.org/2014/05/13/ideological-internet-bubbles-stay-strong-study-shows/# Read More

May 10, 2014

The Forum brings together winners of the Turing Award and Nevanlinna Prize (CS), as well as the Abel Prize and Fields Medal (math) for a week in Heidelberg. An international committee of experts selected 100 successful CS candidates from more than 40 countries around the world. Congratulations, Danai! Read More

Apr 30, 2014

SCS team and BBN and ARL collaborators win 'best student paper runner up' award, at PAKDD'14. The citation is: The paper describes a novel algorithm to spot time-evolving communities in large datasets. PAKDD is one of the top data mining conferences. The award ceremony will be on May 15,  in Tainan, Taiwan. Congratulations! Read More

Dec 18, 2013

Prof. Hanghang TONG (MLD phd) and Prof. Leman Akoglu (CSD phd) worked on analyzing the correlation between quality of questions and quality of answers, in "stack-overflow" - their paper is on the web: http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.6876 The MIT-tech-review article can be found at http://www.technologyreview.com/view/522171/data-mining-reveals-the-secret-to-getting-good-answers/ Congratulations, Hanghang and Leman! Read More

Jul 26, 2013

Prof. U Kang, SCS Alumni, is chosen as the finalist for the 2013 KDD Dissertation Award, which is the highest honor for a data mining thesis. His dissertation is titled "Mining Tera-Scale Graphs: Theory Read More