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
  
Jan '09: Our work on (with M. W. Mahoney) has appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
   Dec '08: Congratulations to Asif Javed for successfully defending his thesis. He has joined the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center as a postdoctoral researcher.
   Aug '08: Our work on Tracing Sub-Structure in the European American Population with PCA-Informative Markers appeared in PLoS Genetics; see also the press release.
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