Christos Faloutsos is a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He
has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award by the National
Science Foundation (1989), the Research Contributions Award in ICDM
2006, the SIGKDD Innovations Award (2010), seventeen ``best paper''
awards, and four teaching awards. He has served as a member of the
executive committee of SIGKDD; he has published over 200 refereed
articles, 11 book chapters and one monograph. He holds five patents
and he has given over 30 tutorials and over 10 invited distinguished
lectures. His research interests include data mining for graphs and
streams, fractals, database performance, and indexing for multimedia
and bio-informatics data.