Jure Leskovec.

   


I am a PhD candidate in the Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

I did my undergraduate in Computer Science at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. I also collaborate with the Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

I am interested in data mining and machine learning, with emphasis on mining and modeling real-world networks, their evolution, and spread of information, influence and viruses over them. I also do work on text mining, large scale sensor placement problems, and applications of machine learning.
My advisor is Christos Faloutsos.






WWW 2008 Tutorial on the patterns and models of network structure and on diffusion and cascading behavior in large networks. Slides

Videos and slides from the tutorials on Statistical Properties, Models and Diffusion in Large Social Networks I gave at ECML/PKDD '07 conference and at NATO Workshop on Mining Massive Datasets.

Most informative blogs. Which blogs should you read to be most up to date, i.e., to quickly know about important stories that propagate over the blogosphere?

I also organize the CMU Machine Learning Lunch. Want to give a talk? :)



Latest papers


Microscopic Evolution of Social Networks
Jure Leskovec, Lars Backstrom, Ravi Kumar, Andrew Tomkins.
ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM KDD), 2008.
[PDF]

Statistical Properties of Community Structure in Large Social and Information Networks
Jure Leskovec, Kevin Lang, Anirban Dasgupta, Michael Mahoney.
World Wide Web (WWW), 2008.
[PDF]

Planetary-Scale Views on a Large Instant-Messaging Network
Jure Leskovec, Eric Horvitz.
World Wide Web (WWW), 2008.
The largest social network ever analyzed.
[PDF]

Cost-effective Outbreak Detection in Networks
Jure Leskovec, Andreas Krause, Carlos Guestrin, Christos Faloutsos, Jeanne VanBriesen, Natalie Glance.
ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM KDD), 2007,
Winner of the Best Student Paper Award.
[PDF][extended version with proofs] [PowerPoint]
[Project webpage with rank-lists of blogs] [Video]


Contact info

email:
Jure@cs.cmu.edu or Jure.Leskovec@ijs.si

CMU address:
Machine Learning Department
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

Office: Wean Hall 5123
phone: +1 412 268 5728
fax: +1 412 268 3431

Home address:
5521 Hobart Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15217, USA
cell: +1 412 478 8329

Slovenia address:
Department of Knowledge Technologies
Jozef Stefan Institute
Jamova 39
SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia