Petros Drineas
 









Contact Info
Email: d r i n e p AT c s . r p i . 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
                             


Associate Professor
Computer Science Department
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 
   
Education
  
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, University of Patras

 
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.
 
News
   Jun '10: Third Workshop on "Algorithms for Modern Massive Datasets" (June 15-18, 2010, at Stanford University). Co-organizers: G. Carlsson, L-H. Lim, and M. W. Mahoney.
   Jan '10: Our paper on "Random Walks in Time-Graphs" (joint work with U. Acer and A. Abouzeid) won the Best Paper Award in MobiOpp 2010!
   Oct '09: Randomized Algorithms in Linear Algebra Minisymposia (parts I and II), under the auspices of the SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra.
   Jan '09: Our work on (with M. W. Mahoney) has appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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