Christos Boutsidis

• Title: Research Staff Member

• Department: Mathematical Sciences Department

• Affiliation: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

• Email: christos.boutsidis * gmail (dot) com

• Phone: +1 914-945-1972

• Address: 1101 Kitchawan Road, Route 134, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. 10598, USA

Research

• Algorithms: matrix algorithms, linear algebra, optimization, machine learning.

• Applications: business analytics, data mining, quantitative finance.

Education

• Computer Science Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Ph.D., May 2011.

  • Ph.D Dissertation: Topics in Matrix Sampling Algorithms.

  • Advisor: Petros Drineas

• Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras, BS, July 2006.

  • Thesis: SVD-based initialization: A head start on nonnegative matrix factorization.

  • Thesis Advisor: Efstratios Gallopoulos

Experiences

• Research Staff Member, Mathematical Sciences Dept, IBM Watson, Aug 2011-present.

• Quantitative Analyst, WorldQuant, LLC, June-Aug 2010.

• Intern Student, Mathematical Sciences Department, IBM Zurich, May-Nov 2009.

• Visiting Student, Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA, Sept-Dec 2008.

• Intern Student, Services Engineering Department, IBM Watson, May-Aug 2008.

• Teaching Assistant, Computer Science Department, RPI, Aug 2007-May 2008.

• Research Assistant, Computer Science Department, RPI, Aug 2006-May 2011.