Petros Drineas

Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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, Patras University

Research interests (theory): The design and analysis of randomized and approximation algorithms for linear algebraic computations.
(applications): Data mining, in particular the analysis of population genetics data, internet data, and electronic circuit testing data.

Publications and full cv.

News

Sep 2008: Third RPI CS day on "Data Mining and Machine Learning" coming up!
Jun 2008: Second Workshop on "Algorithms for Modern Massive Datasets". It is co-organized with G. Carlsson, M.W. Mahoney, and L-H. Lim.
Apr 2008: Second Workshop on Data Mining for Biomedical Informatics, to be held in conjuction with the 8th SIAM Conference on Data Mining in April 2008.
Sep 2007: PCA-correlated SNPs for Structure Identification in Worldwide Human Populations, PLoS Genetics.
- Press release
- Scitizen article
- Slides from a recent talk at the IPAM Workshop on Search and Knowledge Building for Biological Datasets
Oct 2006: First RPI CS Day.
Jun 2006: Workshop on "Algorithms for Modern Massive Datasets" (co-organized with G. Golub, L-H. Lim, and M. W. Mahoney).

Jan 2006: NSF CAREER award (press release).

Students and teaching

Graduate students: Asif Javed (4th year), Christos Boutsidis (2nd year), and Jamey Lewis (2nd year).
Spring 2008 courses: Randomized Algorithms (CSCI 6962) and Models of Computation (CSCI 2400).
Full list of courses taught in the past.

Tutorials

Information retrieval and data mining: a linear algebraic perspective, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA, Sep 2007 (a podcast of the talk is also available).
Randomized algorithms for matrices and massive datasets, VLDB, Sep 2006.
Randomized algorithms for matrices and massive datasets, SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Apr 2006.
Randomized algorithms for matrices and massive datasets, ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Aug 2005.

Contact Info

Email: d r i n e p AT c s DOT r p i DOT e d u
Physical address: Lally Hall, Room 317, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA
Phone: +1 (518) 276 8265
Fax: +1 (518) 276 4033