Christos Faloutsos
Professor – CS, ECE
| Contact Information | |
|---|---|
| Department | Computer Science |
| Office | 4126 Wean Hall |
| Telephone | (412)-268-1457 |
| christos@cs.cmu.edu | |
| Website | http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~christos/ |
Research Interests
Professor Faloutsos focuses on two major research areas: query by content in multi-media databases and data mining. The first area examines fast methods for approximate matching in multimedia databases. Typical queries are as follows: "in a collection of product photographs, find products that look like tennis shoes;" "in a collection of medical X-rays, find ones that look like the X-ray of the current patient, and list the corresponding diagnoses." Professor Faloutsos' group uses database methods, like 'R-trees,' to search for them efficiently.
The goal in data mining is to discover correlations ('rules') in a collection of records. For example, in a set of patient records with demographic characteristics, symptoms and diagnoses, the research group would like to find all the 'interesting' rules (e.g., 'patients > 50 years old with cholesterol > 300 have a 10 percent probability of heart attack'). The focus is on scalable algorithms for massive datasets, 'Active Disks,' and on lossy compression, which is closely related to data mining.
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Keywords
Databases, data mining, multimedia indexing, performance evaluation
Education
PhD, 1987
Computer Science
University of Toronto
MS, 1982
Computer Science
University of Toronto
BS, 1981
Electrical Engineering
National Technical University of Athens