Biographical note

Christos Faloutsos is a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award by
the National Science Foundation (1989), 
the Research Contributions Award in ICDM 2006,
the SIGKDD Innovations Award (2010),
nineteen ``best paper'' awards 
(including two ``test of time'' awards),
and four teaching awards.
He is an ACM Fellow,
he has served as a member of the executive committee of SIGKDD;
he has published over 200 refereed articles, 11 book chapters
and one monograph.  He holds six patents and 
he has given over 30 tutorials and over 10 invited distinguished lectures.
His research interests include data mining
for graphs and streams, fractals, database performance,
and indexing for multimedia and bio-informatics data.