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Petros Drineas awarded School of Science's Emerging Researcher Award

May 3, 2007

TROY, N.Y.- Professor Petros Drineas has been awarded the School of Science's Emerging Researcher Award. This award is given to a faculty or staff member who has worked in the School of Science 3-6 years. Professor Drineas was chosen for this award based on his many accomplishments during his four years in the Computer Science Department, including:

Published more than a dozen papers in top archival refereed journals, including those sponsored by SIAM, ACM, and IEEE.
Published more than 20 proceedings papers for high prestige conferences including those sponsored by IEEE and ACM.
Co-organized (with Gene Golub [NAE/NAS]) a major NSF-supported workshop on massive data sets; co-wrote a conference review in widely read SIAM News.
Served on the Organizing Committee of a SIAM Workshop on Bioinformatics.
Presented invited colloquia at 16 prestigious universities and organizations, including Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, Michigan, Purdue, Yahoo!, IBM, and Sandia.
Presented tutorials at three top conferences.
Awarded a five-year NSF CAREER grant ($ 400 K), the top research grant for young faculty.
Co-PI (with two others) for a three-year NSF grant ($460 K).
Served on the Program Committees of five important ACM conferences.

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