Dr. Christos Faloutsos is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University

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. He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award by the National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation

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 (1989), seven best paper awards, and several teaching awards. He has served as a member of the executive committee of SIGKDD

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. He has published over 140 refereed articles, one monograph, and holds five patents. His research interests include data mining for streams and networks, fractals, indexing for multimedia and bio-informatics data bases, and performance.

He also received the ACM 2010 SIGKDD Innovation Award and he was also named a Fellow of the ACM in 2010.