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Email: drineas@gmail.com
Physical
address: Lally Hall,
Room 317, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA
Phone: +1 (518) 276 8265
Fax: +1 (518) 276
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Education
Ph.D./M.Phil./M.Sc. in Computer Science (May
2003),
Computer
Science Department
, Yale University
BS/M.Sc.
in Computer Engineering (July 1997),
Computer Engineering and Informatics
Department
,
University of
Patras
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Research
interests
Theory: Randomization in
Numerical Linear
Algebra (RandNLA) & Tables de multiplication
Applications: Data mining, in
particular the analysis of population genetics data.
Click
here for my Google Scholar page.
Quick links:
student news; summer schools, (selected) tutorials, and talks; editorial boards and (selected) program committees; other news.
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Recent news
Jul '16:
I will be teaching a course on RandNLA at the 26th Annual Summer Session of the Park City Math Institute (PCMI) and the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS). The overall topic of the summer school is
Mathematics of Data and it will run from June 30 to July 20, 2016 in Midway, Utah.
Jun '16:
Sixth
Workshop on "Algorithms
for Modern Massive Datasets" (June 21-24, 2016, at
the University of California Berkeley). Co-organizers: M. W. Mahoney and A.
Shkolnik
.
Apr'16: NSF-sponsored workshop (co-organizer: Xiaoming Huo) on "Theoretical Foundations of Data Science (TFoDS)" (April 28-30, 2016, at Hilton Arlington).
Mar '16: The CRC Handbook of Big Data that I am co-editing with Peter Bühlmann, Michael Kane, and Mark J. van der Laan is now available!
Jan '16:
Click here for the SIAM News article on the 2015 Gene Golub SIAM
Summer School on the topic of Randomized Numerical Linear
Algebra (RandNLA).
Student news
Nov '15:
Congratulations to Srinivas Nambirajan
for successfully defending his thesis.
May '15:
Congratulations to Abhisek Kundu
for successfully defending his thesis. Abhisek
joined the Speech and Biomedical Analytics Group in Xerox Research Center India as a Research Scientist in January 2016.
Apr '15:
Congratulations to Saurabh Paul
for successfully defending his thesis. Saurabh will join the Risk
Analytics team in PayPal as a Data Scientist in July 2015.
Apr '11:
Congratulations to Christos
Boutsidis for successfully defending his thesis. He
was also awarded the 2011
Robert McNaughton Prize, given to an outstanding
student in the computer science department. Christos
joined the Mathematical Sciences Department in IBM T.J.
Watson as a Research Staff Member.
Sep
'10:
Congratulations
to
Jamey
Lewis
for successfully defending his
thesis!
Summer schools, (selected) tutorials, and talks
Oct '15: Click here for the slides from our invited mini-tutorial at the 2015 SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra on "Randomization in Numerical Linear Algebra: Theory and Practice" (with
I.
Ipsen and
M. W. Mahoney
).
Jun
'15: The 2015 Gene Golub SIAM
Summer School (June 15 - 26, 2015) on the topic of Randomized Numerical Linear
Algebra (RandNLA) was held at the ancient site of Delphi (Δελφοί), a UNESCO World Cultural
Heritage Site, in Greece. Co-organizers: E.
Gallopoulos, I.
Ipsen, and
M. W. Mahoney
. Articles discussing the Summer School have appeared in news venues.
(in English) SIAM News
(in Greek) Kathimerini, University of Patras Press Release, University of Patras Magazine (pages 3-4).
Dec '14: Some thoughts on Linear Algebra that appeared in Kuldeep Singh's book.
Sep '13:
Click
here
for slides from my talk at the workshop on "Succinct
Data Representations and Applications" under the auspices of the
Theoretical
Foundations of Big Data Analysis program at the Simons Institute for the Theory
of Computing.
Sep
'13: Click here
for slides and video from my tutorial on RandNLA at the Big Data Bootcamp week under the auspices
of the Theoretical
Foundations of Big Data Analysis program at the Simons Institute for the Theory
of Computing.
Sep
'12:
Talk at the MIT CSAIL seminar: click
here for the slides.
Sep
'12: Tutorial at the opening
workshop of SAMSI's "Massive
Datasets" 2012-2013 program (September 9-12, 2012). Click
here for the slides of my talk.
Jun '12:
Keynote talk at the
SIAM
Conference on Applied Linear Algebra
(June 18-22,
2012)
;
click here for the
slides.
May '12: Keynote talk at the "From
Data to Knowledge" workshop (UC Berkeley, May 7-11, 2012); click
here
for the slides.
Apr
'12: Talk at the CMU Computer Science Theory Lunch: click
here for the slides.
Editorial boards and (selected) program committees
Jan
'15: Editorial Board Member, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (SIMAX).
Jul '14: Editorial Board Member, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Special Issue for Software and Big Data.
Feb '14: Editorial Board Member, Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA.
Jun '14:
Fifth
Workshop on "Algorithms
for Modern Massive Datasets" (June 17-20, 2014, at
the University of California Berkeley). Co-organizers: M. W. Mahoney, A.
Shkolnik
,
R. Zadeh, and F.
Perez.
Oct
'13:
Program
Committee Member, 2014
ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (May 31 - June 3,
2014).
May
'13: Editorial Board Member, PLoS ONE.
Feb
'13: Program Committee Member, 2014 ACM-SIAM Symposium on
Discrete Algorithms (January 5-7, 2014).
Apr
'13: Workshop on "Succinct
Data Representations and Applications" (September 16-20, 2013,
at University of California Berkeley).
Jan
'13: Vice Chair, 2013
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (December 8-11,
2013).
Oct '12: Workshop
on "Randomized
Numerical Linear Algebra (RandNLA): Theory and Practice"
(October 20, 2012, Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick NJ, USA) held in
conjunction with FOCS
2012. Co-organizers: H.
Avron and C.
Boutsidis. Read this
blog post (written by Ludwig Schmidt and edited by Michael
Mitzenmacher)
for
a concise summary of the workshop's talks.
Jul '12:
Fourth
Workshop on "Algorithms
for Modern Massive Datasets" (July 10-13, 2012, at
Stanford University). Co-organizers: G. Carlsson, A.
Shkolnik
,
and M.
W. Mahoney.
Click
here for the slides of my talk.
May
'11: NSF-sponsored workshop on "Algorithms
in the Field (A8F)" (May 16-18, 2011, at
DIMACS).
Jun
'10: Third Workshop on "Algorithms for Modern
Massive Datasets" (June 15-18, 2010, at Stanford
University). Co-organizers: G. Carlsson, L. H.
Lim, and M.
W. Mahoney.
Oct '09: Randomized
Algorithms in Linear Algebra Minisymposia (parts I
and II),
under the auspices of the SIAM Conference on Applied
Linear
Algebra.
Other news
Jun '14: Our
study on a maritime route of colonization of Europe, showing that
island hopping was used by Near Eastern migrants to reach Southern
Europe, has appeared in the the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences. Numerous news stories and blogs discuss our work:
(in English) Science, New Scientist, National Geographic, University of Washington HSNewsBeat, Popular Archaeology, Phys Org, Phys Org News, EurekAlert, Science Daily, Science Codex, Science World Report, Archeologie & Anthropology, Heritage Daily, Past Horizons, Archaeology, Science Newsline, Technology.org, Dienekes' Anthropology Blog.
(in Greek) Ethnos, To Vima, Ta Nea, Real.gr, News.gr, E-kriti.gr,
Kool News, Sigma Live, Polis Press, Yahoo! Greece, Rodiaki, Go Thessaloniki, Nooz.
(in French) Le Figaro.
(in German) derStandard, Scinexx.
(in Italian) Le Scienze.
Sep '13:
Harnessing
the Petabyte: our new NSF IIS funded project investigates cloud
computing and supercomputing to analyze Big Data; click here for
details.
May '13:
Our study on ancient mtDNA from the Minoans appeared in Nature
Communications. Many news stories and blogs discuss our work
(click here
for a synopsis of the attention that our work generated, as reported
by Nature Communications):
Feb
'13: I will be a long-term participant of the "Theoretical
Foundations of Big Data Analysis" program at the Simons Institute for the Theory
of Computing at the University
of California Berkeley in the fall of 2013.
May
'11: Ravi
Kannan won the 2011
Knuth prize! Congratulations Ravi!
Oct
'10: I have joined the National Science
Foundation (NSF) as a Program Director at the Computing
and Communication Foundations (CCF) and the Information
and Intelligent Systems (IIS) divisions in the
Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
directorate.
Oct
'10: Our work (co-authored with A. Javed, J. Lewis, and P. Paschou) on Ancestry
Informative Markers (AIMs) for Europeans (POPulation
REference Sample - POPRES) and world-wide populations
(Human Genome Diversity Panel - HGDP) has appeared in PLoS
One and the Journal
of Medical Genetics, respectively.
Jan
'10: Our paper on "Random
Walks in Time-Graphs" (joint work with U. Acer
and A.
Abouzeid) won the Best Paper Award in MobiOpp
2010!
Jan
'09: Our work on CUR Matrix Decompositions for Improved Data
Analysis (with M. W. Mahoney) has appeared in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences.
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