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Charalampos Tsourakakis
Assistant Professor at Boston University
Charalampos Tsourakakis is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering departments at Boston University.12 He is also known by the nicknames Labis or Babis.3
Education and Background
Dr. Tsourakakis received his Ph.D. from the Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization (ACO) program at Carnegie Mellon University.1 He also holds:
- A Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens
- A Master of Science from the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University1
Prior to joining Boston University, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University and worked as a researcher in the Google Brain team.1
Research Focus
His main research interests include:
- Large-scale graph mining
- Machine learning
- Data-driven algorithmics and applications
- Theoretical foundations of data science14
Achievements and Contributions
Dr. Tsourakakis has made significant contributions to his field:
- Won a best paper award at IEEE Data Mining
- Delivered three tutorials at the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
- Designed two graph mining libraries for large-scale graph mining, with one officially included in Windows Azure1
He has published numerous papers in prestigious conferences such as the International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) and the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC).1
