Christos Faloutsos

Christos Faloutsos^[1] (Greek: Χρήστος Φαλούτσος) is a Greek computer scientist and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award by the National Science Foundation (1989), 22 best paper awards, and several teaching awards. He has served as a member of the executive committee of SIGKDD. He has published over 300 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.

Christos Faloutsos
Born	Athens
Nationality	Greek
Alma mater	University of Toronto; National Technical University of Athens
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	University of Maryland Carnegie Mellon University
Thesis	(1987)
Doctoral students	Jure Leskovec
Website	www.cs.cmu.edu/~christos

He also received the ACM 2010 SIGKDD Innovation Award^[2] and he was also named a Fellow of the ACM in 2010.^[3]