Prof. Andy Pavlo wins SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award
Posted: June 30, 2014 ┃ Category: Awards
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 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 Read More
Danai in the news!
Posted: May 24, 2014 ┃ Category: In-the-News
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/# 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 Read More
Danai invited to Heidelberg Laureate Forum
Posted: May 10, 2014 ┃ Category: Awards
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! 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 Read More
Miguel, Stephan, Vagelis, Danai: Win ‘Best Student Paper’ Distinction in PAKDD’14.
Posted: April 30, 2014 ┃ Category: Awards
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! 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 Read More
DB alumni mentioned in the MIT technology review!
Posted: December 18, 2013 ┃ Category: In-the-News
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! 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 Read More
U Kang is chosen as finalist, for the KDD-dissertation award!
Posted: July 26, 2013 ┃ Category: Awards
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 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
SCS team, alumni and colleagues attract the Best Paper award in CIKM’12!
Posted: November 1, 2012 ┃ Category: Awards
The paper gives fast, scalable algorithms to strengthen (or weaken) a network, by careful edge additions (or removals), and gives applications on real graphs. The full citation is: The first two authors are SCS alumni (2010 and 2012, resp.), advised by the last author, SCS faculty Prof. Christos Faloutsos. CIKM is one of the top conferences in information retrieval and data mining with 1099 articles submitted this year, and only 146 of them accepted as full papers. The paper gives fast, scalable algorithms to strengthen (or weaken) a network, by careful edge additions (or removals), and gives applications on real graphs. The full citation is: The first two authors are SCS alumni (2010 and 2012, resp.), advised Read More
Polo wins dissertation distinction!
Posted: October 24, 2012 ┃ Category: Awards
Prof. Polo Chau wins the SCS Honorable Mention for his dissertation. Polo defended his dissertation with title "Data Mining Meets HCI: Making Sense Prof. Polo Chau wins the SCS Honorable Mention for his dissertation. Polo defended his dissertation with title "Data Mining Meets HCI: Making Sense Read More
Lei Li wins distinction!
Posted: July 16, 2012 ┃ Category: Awards
Dr. Lei Li (SCS, phd'11) won the prestigious KDD best dissertation award (runner up), for his dissertation "Fast Algorithms for Mining Co-evolving Time Series". KDD is the premier Data Mining conference, with high competition from the best research groups in the world. Lei's thesis developed novel algorithms for forecasting, clustering and missing-value imputation for time sequences in a broad spectrum of settings, from motion-capture sequences to data-center monitoring to computer network ``BGP'' traffic mining. Warmest congratulations Lei! Dr. Lei Li (SCS, phd'11) won the prestigious KDD best dissertation award (runner up), for his dissertation "Fast Algorithms for Mining Co-evolving Time Series". KDD is the premier Data Mining conference, with high competition from the best research groups in Read More
Mr. Alex Beutel wins NSF Fellowship!
Posted: March 24, 2012 ┃ Category: Fellowship
We are delighted to announce that SCS doctoral student Mr. Alex Beutel was awarded the 2011 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, (to be applied 2012-2015). The amount is $30,000 per year for up to three years. Congratulations Alex! We are delighted to announce that SCS doctoral student Mr. Alex Beutel was awarded the 2011 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, (to be applied 2012-2015). The amount is $30,000 per year for up to three years. Congratulations Alex! Read More