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About me
Hello there! My name is Vagelis Papalexakis (my 'official' name is Evangelos, but nobody really calls me that) and I come from the beautiful city of Athens, Greece. I received my Electronic & Computer Engineering Diploma and M.Sc at the Technical University of Crete in Chania, under the supervision of Professor Nikos Sidiropoulos. I recently received my Ph.D from the Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Professor Christos Faloutsos.Currently, I am an Assistant Professor at the Computer Science & Engineering Department at the University of California Riverside, working broadly on data mining, machine learning, and data science research. You can get a quick idea about my research by browsing through my research statement or through my list of publications.
News and upcoming travel
- August 2017: Attending KDD 2017 in Halifax, Canada.
- August 2017: Attending ASONAM 2017 in Sydney, Australia, presenting three papers (p1, p2, p3) with students and collaborators at UCR
- July 2017: Attending CVPR 2017 in Honolulu, Hawaii, presenting work with my student at the Tensor Methods in Computer Vision Workshop.
- May 2017: Attended the Second Workshop on Mission Critical Big Data Analytics (MCDBA) and gave an invited talk.
- March 2017: The first paper out of my graduate data mining class at UCR (CS235) was accepted for presentation at IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference.
- March 2017 Attended IEEE ICASSP 2017 in New Orleans and delivered a tutorial on Tensors for Signal Processing and Machine Learning.
- September 2016: Selected among the "20 rising stars" of the KDD community by Microsoft Research Asia and Microsoft Academic Search! See also the Weibo post
UPDATE: Links seem to be offline, you can find archived versions here: Weibo post, Weibo post translated, List. - September 2016: Invited to give a keynote talk at the Tensor-Learn Workshop at NIPS'16 in Barcelona in December
- August 2016: Attended KDD 2016 and ASONAM 2016 in San Francisco
- May 2016: My SDM'16 paper Automatic Unsupervised Tensor Mining with Quality Assessment won Best Student Paper Award!!!
- May 2016: Won the NSF Travel Award for SIAM SDM 2016 in Miami, FL.
- April 2016: Attended PAKDD in Auckland, New Zealand.
- April 2016: Attended Dagstuhl Perspecives Workshop on Tensor Computing for Internet of Things in Dagstuhl, Germany.
- January 2016: Paper Automatic Unsupervised Tensor Mining with Quality Assessment accepted at SIAM SDM 2016
- December 2015: Attended IEEE CAMSAP 2015 in Cancun, Mexico.
- November 2015: Attended ICDM 2015 in Atlantic City, NJ.
- November 2015: Gave an invited tech talk at Facebook HQ in Menlo Park, CA, hosted by Sofus Macskassy.
- November 2015: Attending COSN 2015 and presenting a poster titled: Overlap Between Google and Bing Web Search Results! Twitter to the Rescue?
- October 2015: Gave an invited talk at Rutgers (hosted by Tina Eliassi-Rad).
- October 2015: Attended the WIN 2015 workshop and presented a talk titled GeoTense: Spotting Patterns in Geo-Social Networks with Tensors and a poster titled Overlap Between Google and Bing Web Search Results! Twitter to the Rescue?.
- August 2015: Attended VLDB 2015 and presented at the PhD Workshop.
- August 2015: Visited Beijing, China and gave invited talks at Tsinghua University (hosted by Peng Cui), Chinese Academy of Sciences (hosted by Ping Luo), and Microsoft Research Asia (hosted by Yu Zheng).
- August 2015: Attended KDD 2015 and presented our paper titled Whither Social Networks for Web Search?
- August 2015: Finished my summer internship at Google Research at the Structured Data Group