U.S. mail address:
      Christos Faloutsos 
      Dept. of Computer Science , GHC 7003
      Carnegie Mellon University
      5000 Forbes Avenue 
      Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891 
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      email: christos-admin-support AT cs DOT cmu DOT edu


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Christos Faloutsos

Current Position: Fredkin Professor of Computer Science.
Courtesy appointment: Electrical and Computer Engineering, CMU
Academic Degrees: Ph.D. and M.Sc. (University of Toronto.); B.Sc. (Nat. Tech. U. Athens)
Short bio  and full CV in pdf; customized for funding agencies, 2-page versions .
Up-to-date calendar: here

• Database group at CMU
• Machine Learning Department
• PDL (Parallel Data Lab)

• Informedia (1997-2007)
• Computational Biology Department(2003-2015)

Research Interests:

• Anomaly and fraud detection in graphs and time series.
• Human trafficking detection.
• Fractals, self-similarity and power laws.
• Indexing and data mining for video, biological and medical databases.

Projects

Older

• Stream mining (SPIRIT)
• Graph Mining (NSF Grant No. IIS-0534205; additional support from IBM and PITA)
• Mining Biomedical and Network Data Using Tensors (NSF Grants No. IIS-0705359 and IIS-0705215).
• Drosophila embryo image mining (with Prof. Eric Xing) (NSF Grant No. DBI-0640543).
• Motion capture indexing and mining (with Profs. Jessica Hodgins, Nancy Pollard, Randy Pausch; and Amy Bruckman (GA Tech))
• Robust Inter-Domain Routing with Prof. Michalis Faloutsos (UCR) - NSF Grant No. CNS-0721736.
• III-CXT-Large: Collaborative Research: Interactive and Intelligent searching of biological images by query and network navigation with learning capabilities NSF Grant No. IIS-0808661
• Influence and Virus Propagation in Large Graphs NSF Grant No. IIS-1017415
• HCI:Small: Making Sense out of Large Graphs: Bridging HCI with Data Mining NSF Grant No. IIS-1217559
• PEGASUS project for Peta-Scale graph mining.
• BIGDATA:Mid-Scale:DA:Collaborative research:Big Tensor Mining: Theory, Scalable Algorithms and Applications. NSF Grant No. IIS-1247489.
• TWC: Medium: Collaborative: Know Thy Enemy: Data Mining Meets Networks for Understanding Web-Based Malware Dissemination NSF Grant No. CNS-1314632.
• III: Medium: Collaborative Research: Collective Opinion Fraud Detection: Identifying and Integrating Cues from Language, Behavior, and Networks NSF Award No. IIS-1408924.

Ongoing

• Human trafficking detection (with Prof. R. Rabbany (McGill U.)).
• Electronic Bee Veterinarian. NIFA Award No. 2024-67021-43696, Collaborative Research: CPS: Medium: EbeeVet: An Electronic Bee-Veterinarian Framework to Secure Honey Bees Duration: 9/15/2024 - 9/14/2027. (Collaborative with UCR - Profs. Hyoseung Kim, Vassilis Tsotras, Boris Baer).
• Fraud detection in phonecall networks.
• Fraud detection in financial networks

In the news:

• Oct. 2004: Ranked among the top 50 nurturers in information technology by a study at the Indian Institute of Science.
• Nov. 2005: Mentioned in the Greek newspaper 'To Vima' (full article, in Greek )
• Dec. 2005: Interview in the Dec. 2005 ACM SIGMOD record (Distinguished Database Profiles)
• Dec. 2006: CMU press release about the NetProbe project for auction fraud detection - joint work with Polo Chau, Shashank Pandit and Sam Wang. Also in 
• • Wall Street Journal, 
  •  USA Today, 
  • Washington Post, 
  • Los Angeles Times, 
  • KDKA TV (CBS), 
  • INC.com
• Jan. 2009: (in Greek) Interview in the first student newsletter, (pp. 9-11) of the Athens University of Economics and Business. Also, coverage of NetProbe (pp. 12-13) . For more details, see the home page of the .mag newsletter.
• Oct. 2012: NSF press release 12-187 on BIG DATA grants
• Fall 2016: 'Fraudar' paper Detection of fake twitter followers, fake yelp reviews etc. Joint work with Bryan Hooi, Hyun Ah Song, Alex Beutel, Neil Shah, Kijung Shin.
  • Announcement of KDD'16 best paper award ; CMU news (and local copy); YouTube .
  • NSF news (and local copy)
  • NPR/WESA Pittsburgh news (and local copy)
  • Digital trends (and local copy)
  • FossBytes (and local copy)
  • upGruv (and local copy)
  • TrendHunter (and local copy)
• May 2021: 'InfoShield' for Human Trafficking Detection.
  • CMU news article and local copy
  • WPXI article and local copy of video clip
• Oct. 2022: 'TrafficVis' visualization for Human Trafficking Detection.
  • CMU news article and local copy
• Feb. 2025: 'EBV' Electronic Bee Veterinarian, for hive temperature monitoring and early warning:
  • CMU news.
  • UC Riverside news.

New (March 2023): MetaPaper list of presentation suggestions

• MetaPaper a.k.a. 'Lessons learned from 1000 research paper rejections' is out - tar-file and presentation are here.

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