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Vagelis Hristidis
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Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Education
Ph.D. Computer Science, University of California, San Diego, 2004RESEARCH AREAS
Databases, Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence
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Dr. Hristidis’ key areas of expertise are Databases, Information Retrieval, and particularly the intersection of these two areas. His long-term vision is to make the information in databases easily accessible and useful, in various application domains. His research has strong emphasis on interdisciplinary topics, mainly Health Informatics (where he has published a book) and Social Networks. Dr. Hristidis’ work has been funded by NSF, IARPA, DHS, DTRA, Samsung, Google and IBM. His work on correlating Twitter and financial data in 2012 was featured by many mainstream media like The New York Times, Forbes and Yahoo!. In 2014, he co-founded SmartDocFinder LLC, which is a data-driven platform to match patients to healthcare providers.
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Awards
FIU School of Computing and Information Sciences Research Award, 2010
Google Research Award, 2010
IBM Scalable Data Analytics for A Smarter Planet Innovation Award, 2010
NSF CAREER Award, 2010-2015
Kauffmann Foundation Entrepreneurship Award, 2008
FIU Faculty Research Award, 2008
FIU School of Computing and
Information Sciences Research Award, 2006
DIMACS Scholar, Summer 2002
Eugenidou Foundation Scholarship, 2000-2002.
FIU School of Computing and Information Sciences Research Award, 2010
Google Research Award, 2010
IBM Scalable Data Analytics for A Smarter Planet Innovation Award, 2010
NSF CAREER Award, 2010-2015
Kauffmann Foundation Entrepreneurship Award, 2008
FIU Faculty Research Award, 2008
FIU School of Computing and
Information Sciences Research Award, 2006
DIMACS Scholar, Summer 2002
Eugenidou Foundation Scholarship, 2000-2002.
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Department of Mechanical Engineering
317 Winston Chung Hall
Tel: 951-827-2478
Fax: 951-827-4643
Email: vagelis@cs.ucr.edu
Website: http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~vagelis/
317 Winston Chung Hall
Tel: 951-827-2478
Fax: 951-827-4643
Email: vagelis@cs.ucr.edu
Website: http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~vagelis/