People - Alumni

Deepayan Chakrabarti
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Deepayan Chakrabarti is a PhD student at the Center for Automated Learning and Discovery at CMU. He received his B.Tech. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. His research primarily focusses on time series forecasting, and pattern detection in large dynamic graphs.

Shimin Chen
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Shimin Chen received B.E. (1997) and M.E. (1999) degrees in Computer Science and Technology from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, working on improving CPU cache performance of core database algorithms.

Kun Gao
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Kun Gao received a Bachelor’s degree (2004) from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, working on staged database systems.

Stavros Harizopoulos
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Stavros Harizopoulos is PhD student in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and a member of the Parallel Data Laboratory. He received his diploma in electronics and computer engineering from the Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece (1998). His research interests are in high-performance storage and database systems, with an emphasis on streaming media applications. He is a Lilian Voudouri Foundation fellowship recipient.

Christopher Palmer
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Christopher Palmer received his B.Math degree from the University of Waterloo (1998) and his M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University (2000). He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is working on text clustering, similarity metrics for categorical data, tools for analyzing large graphs and data-mining on the Web. He is also working with a Carnegie Mellon startup, Vivisimo, that develops text clustering software.

Jia-Yu Pan
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Jia-Yu Pan (Tim) received an M.S. degree from National Taiwan University and a B.S. degree from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, both in Computer Science. He is currently a fifth-year Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University, working on video data mining and multimedia correlation discovery.

Spiros Papadimitriou
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Spiros Papadimitriou received a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Crete, Heraclion (1998). He is currently a 5th year Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon\'s Computer Science Department. His interests include spatial and temporal data mining.

Stratos Papadomanolakis
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Bianca Schröder
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Bianca received her M.S. degree in Computer Science from University of Saarland, Germany, in 1999. She is currently a PhD student in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University advised by Mor Harchol-Balter. Her research interests are in performance analysis and design of computer systems, with a strong focus on database systems.

Minglong Shao
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Minglong Shao received her B.S. degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, Bejing, China, in 2000. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Computer Science Department working with Professor Anastassia Ailamaki.

Vladislav Shkapenyuk
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Jimeng Sun
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Mengzhi Wang
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Mengzhi Wang received B.S. (1996) and M.S. (1999) degrees in Computer Science from Fudan University, Shanghai, China. She is currently a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon, working on architecture-aware query processing.

Leejay Wu
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Leejay Wu received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, where he is currently pursuing a doctoral degree. His primary academic interests include various aspects of data mining, with recent work dealing with nonlinear scaling, feature selection, and function fitting.