Danai Koutra

Education

Carnegie Mellon University, USASep. '10-present
PhD in Computer Science, Computer Science Department
- Area: Data Mining and Machine Learning
- Advisor: Prof. Christos Faloutsos
National Technical University of Athens, GreeceSep. '05-July '10
Diploma, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (5 yr.)
- Division: Computer Science
- GPA: 9.82/10.00 (Summa Cum Laude - ranked 1st)
- Diploma Thesis: Approximate sequence matching with MapReduce
- Supervisor: Prof. Timos Sellis
Arsakion-Tositsio Ekalis, Greece'93-'94 & '95-'05
Coopersale and Theydon Garnon C E Primary School,'94-'95
London, England

Work Experience

Carnegie Mellon University, Graduate Research with
Christos Faloutsos,Fall '10-present
I am working on belief propagation on large heterogeneous graphs, graph similarity, and analysis of P2P data. I am interested in applying belief propagation and other machine learning algorithms in large, time-evolving graphs in order to do classication and detect anomalies.
Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMIS) & National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)Spring '10
I conducted research for my diploma thesis.

Spring 2011:
15-750 Graduate Algorithms (Manuel Blum)
15-712 Advanced and Distributed Operating Systems (Dave Andersen, research and project-based course - Project: Adaptive Routing in Friend-to-Friend Networks)
Fall 2010:
15-781 Machine Learning (Aarti Singh, project-based course - Project: Belief Propagation as a Method of Classication in Heterogeneous Information Networks)
15-740 Computer Architecture (Onur Mutlu, research and project-based course - Project: Approximate Computing: Application Analysis and Hardware Design)

Thomaideio Award - awarded to the top student graduating from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), 2011
Kondoulis Award - awarded to the top student graduating from National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), 2011
Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) for ranking 1st in the 1rst-2nd-5th year and 2nd in the 2nd year among the students of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (>500), NTUA, 2005-2010 (5yr.)
Karydogianni Award for excellent performance - awarded to students of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the School of Mechanical Engineering (>3,500), NTUA, 2005-2010 (5yr.)
Christos Papakyriakopoulos Award for ranking 1st in Mathematics among the students of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, 2006-2007
Award from the General Secretariat for Youth for ranking 1st among the students of Arsakion-Tositsio Ekalis School, 2004-2005
Award from the Hellenic Mathematical Society for excellent performance in "Thalis" math competition, 2000-2001, 2001-2002 (2 yr.)
Filekpedeutiki Society Scholarship for ranking 1st among the students of Arsakion-Tositsio Ekalis School, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005 (6 yr.)
Award from the Greek Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs for ranking 1st among the students of Arsakion-Tositsio Ekalis School, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005 (6 yr.)

Programming Languages: C, Java, Pascal, Prolog, SML, PHP, SQL, UNIX shell scripting, Python, Pearl, PLC Automation (STL, Ladder)
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Linux and other UNIX variants
Tools: Virtutech Simics, Matlab, Mathematica, PSpice, Mathcad, GnuPlot, Siemens Step 7 (PLC Automation)

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