U.S. mail address:
      Christos Faloutsos 
      Dept. of Computer Science 
      Carnegie Mellon University
      GHC 8019
      5000 Forbes Avenue 
      Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891 

ON SABBATICAL, Aug. 2010 - May 2011. Thus, unfortunately,
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Christos Faloutsos

Current Position: Professor. 
Courtesy appointment: Electrical and Computer Engineering, CMU
Academic Degrees: Ph.D. and M.Sc. (University of Toronto.); B.Sc. (Nat. Tech. U. Athens)
Short bio  and full CV ps pdf
Weekly schedule: see my (usually up to date).

• Database group at CMU
• Informedia
• Machine Learning Department
• PDL (Parallel Data Lab)
• Ray and Stephanie Lane Center for Computational Biology

Research Interests:

• Data Mining for graphs and streams
• Fractals, self-similarity and power laws
• Indexing and data mining for video, biological and medical databases
• Data base performance evaluation (data placement, workload characterization)

Projects

• Stream mining (SPIRIT)
• Graph Mining (NSF Grant No. IIS-0534205; additional support from IBM and PITA)
• PEGASUS project for Peta-Scale graph mining.
• Mining Biomedical and Network Data Using Tensors (NSF Grants No. IIS-0705359 and IIS-0705215).
• Drosophila embryo image mining (with Prof. Eric Xing) (NSF Grant No. DBI-0640543).
• Motion capture indexing and mining (with Profs. Jessica Hodgins, Nancy Pollard, Randy Pausch; and Amy Bruckman (GA Tech))
• Robust Inter-Domain Routing with Prof. Michalis Faloutsos (UCR) - NSF Grant No. CNS-0721736.
• III-CXT-Large: Collaborative Research: Interactive and Intelligent searching of biological images by query and network navigation with learning capabilities NSF Grant No. IIS-0808661

In the news:

• Oct. 2004: Ranked among the top 50 nurturers in information technology by a study at the Indian Institute of Science.
• Nov. 2005: Mentioned in the Greek newspaper 'To Vima' (full article, in Greek )
• Dec. 2005: Interview in the Dec. 2005 ACM SIGMOD record (Distinguished Database Profiles)
• Dec. 2006: CMU press release about the NetProbe project for auction fraud detection - joint work with Polo Chau, Shashank Pandit and Sam Wang. Also in 
• Wall Street Journal, 
•  USA Today, 
• Washington Post, 
• Los Angeles Times, 
• KDKA TV (CBS), 
• INC.com
• Jan. 2009: (in Greek) Interview in the first student newsletter, (pp. 9-11) of the Athens University of Economics and Business. Also, coverage of NetProbe (pp. 12-13) . For more details, see the home page of the .mag newsletter.

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