Jimeng Sun wins runner-up for SIGKDD best dissertation award
Jul 1, 2008
Dr. Jimeng Sun (Ph.D. CMU-CSD 2007) attracted the runner-up award for the best SIGKDD dissertation. Jimeng's dissertation is on tensor and stream mining, proposing novel and efficient methods to handle streams of numerical data, as well as streams of graphs. He applied his methods on chlorine monitoring in the drinking water (joint project with Prof. Jeanne VanBriesen of CIT/CMU), on monitoring the self-star data center of PDL/CMU (with Prof. Greg Ganger and his group), and also on monitoring computer traffic Dr. Jimeng Sun (Ph.D. CMU-CSD 2007) attracted the runner-up award for the best SIGKDD dissertation. Jimeng's dissertation is on tensor and stream mining, proposing novel and efficient methods to handle streams of numerical data, as well as streams of graphs. Read More
Polo Chau attracts publicity
Jun 23, 2008
Polo Chau attracts publicity in popular media. WJS-online, CNN-Money, Pittsburgh Tribute-Review and others, mention Polo and the prestigious fellowship he received from Symantec. Congratulations, Polo! Polo Chau attracts publicity in popular media. WJS-online, CNN-Money, Pittsburgh Tribute-Review and others, mention Polo and the prestigious fellowship he received from Symantec. Congratulations, Polo! Read More
Mary McGlohon wins a Yahoo Key Technical Challenge grant!
Feb 10, 2008
The Key Technical Challenges Program is a new Yahoo! program that provides a limited number of exceptional PhD students with $5,000 each of unrestricted funds for the support of their research activities". The award also includes an exclusive invitation to a Yahoo! organized workshop that will focus on novel disciplines and important technical challenges for the Internet research community. The Key Technical Challenges Program is a new Yahoo! program that provides a limited number of exceptional PhD students with $5,000 each of unrestricted funds for the support of their research activities". The award also includes an exclusive invitation to Read More
Polo Chau wins Symantec Research Labs Fellowship
Feb 8, 2008
Polo Chau wins a Symantec Research Labs Fellowship, for 2008-2009. The fellowship covers tuition, stipend, a laptop preloaded with Symantec software, and an invitation to spend a summer internship at the Symantec Research Labs. This dovetails perfectly with the fraud detection work that Polo did last year and attracted media attention. Congratulations, Polo! For more info on the fellowship: http://www.symantec.com/about/careers/working/graduatefellowshippgms.jsp Polo Chau wins a Symantec Research Labs Fellowship, for 2008-2009. The fellowship covers tuition, stipend, a laptop preloaded with Symantec software, and an invitation to spend a summer internship at the Symantec Research Labs. This dovetails perfectly with the fraud Read More