Petros Drineas
Professor and Associate Head, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
Associate Director, Health Data Science, Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering (RCHE)
Education
Ph.D/M.Phil./M.Sc. in Computer Science (May 2003), Computer Science Department, Yale University
BS/M.Sc. in Computer Engineering (July 1997), Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras
Research Interests
Theory: Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra (RandNLA)
Applications: Genomics & Big Data
Links: Wikipedia, Google Scholar, short bio, full CV.
Randomization in Numerical Linear Algebra made a cameo appearance in Netflix's hit series 'The Lincoln Lawyer'! Watch this short clip from Season 1, Episode 3 (disclaimer). Michael Mahoney and I coined this term in late 2011 and the first workshop on Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra (RandNLA) was held during FOCS 2012 (check the Nuit Blanche and My Biased Coin blog posts for details).
News
Mar '24: Congratulations to Gregory Dexter for successfully defending his thesis. Gregory will join Linkedin as Senior Research Scientist.
Feb '24: Dr. Myson Burch (PhD Purdue CS '23) discussing how to build tools that shape the future of health science.
Jan '24: Semester-long program on "Stochastic and Randomized Algorithms in Scientific Computing: Foundations and Applications" at ICERM, Brown University, in Spring 2026. Co-organized with: Harbir Antil; Julianne Chung; Youssef M Marzouk; Agnieszka Miedlar; Arvind Saibaba.
Jan '24: 2024 Gene Golub SIAM Summer School (G2S3) on Iterative and Randomized Methods for Large-Scale Inverse Problems:
- Application deadline: Mar 1, 2024 (link to Google Form)
- G2S3 date: Jul 22 - Aug 2, 2024
- Location: Escuela Politécnica Nacional (Quito, Ecuador)
- Co-organized with Matthias Chung, Juan Carlos de los Reyes, Rosemary Renaut, and Alex Townsend
Previous years: 2023; 2022; 2021; 2020; 2019; 2018; 2017; 2006-2016.