Faloutsos Wins ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award

Byron SpiceWednesday, July 14, 2010

Christos Faloutsos, professor of computer science, will receive the 2010 Innovation Award from the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) at the KDD 2010 international conference in Washington, D.C., July 25-28.

Faloutsos' cross-disciplinary works on power-law graphs, fractal-based analysis, time series, multimedia and spatial indexing is among the most referenced in industry and academic publications. He and his students also have devised software for identifying previously unknown accomplices on Internet auction sites that help others perpetrate fraud.

"Professor Faloutsos' research has pushed the field of knowledge significantly ahead in understanding the huge graph structures representing users and documents on the Web and the way people interact on a massive scale through the Internet," said Usama Fayyad, SIGKDD Executive Council Chairman. "His work, with its rare combination of impressive breadth and fundamental depth, has set new research directions and inspired significant subsequent exploration that is instrumental for the progress of our field especially when it comes to understanding, visualizing, manipulating and exploiting very large social graphs."

Faloutsos, who earned his PhD in computer science at the University of Toronto in 1987, came to Carnegie Mellon as a visiting professor in 1997 and joined the faculty the following year. He received the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation in 1989 and the Research Contributions Award at the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining in 2006, as well as a number of best paper and teaching awards.

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