Affiliation: 4th year Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York).    

Ph.D. advisor: Petros Drineas

Research Focus:  (Randomized) matrix algorithms and linear algebra and their applications in data analysis and machine learning problems.

Preprints of recent publications :
1. Unsupervised Feature Selection for the k-means Clustering Problem ( with M.W. Mahoney and P. Drineas,  NIPS '09 )
2. Random Projections for the Nonnegative Least Squares Problem (with P. Drineas, Linear Algebra and its Applications '09)
3. An Improved Approximation Algorithm for the Column Subset Selection Problem (with M.W. Mahoney and P. Drineas, SODA '09)

Experiences:
- Ph.D Student in the Computer Science Dept. of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Sept. 2006 - present).
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Intern Student in the Mathematical and Computational Sciences Dept. of IBM Zurich Research Lab (May - Oct. 2009).
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Intern Student in the Service Engineering Dept. of IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, in New York (May - Aug. 2008).
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Research Fellow in the Insitute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) of the University of California at Los Angeles (Sept. - Dec. 2008). 
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Undergraduate Student in the Computer Engineering and Informatics Dept. of the University of Patras, in Greece  (Sept. 2001 - July 2006).