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