Jon Michael Kleinberg
Jon Kleinberg was born in 1971 in Boston, Massachusetts. He received a B.S. in computer science from Cornell Universityin 1993 and a Ph.D., also in computer science, from MIT in 1996. Since 1996 he has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell, as well as a visiting scientist at IBM's Almaden Research Center. His work has been supported by an NSF Career Award, an ONR Young Investigator Award, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Packard Foundation Fellowship, a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, and grants from Google, Yahoo!, and the NSF. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Christos Faloutsos
Dr. Christos Faloutsos is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award by the National Science Foundation (1989), seven best paper awards, and several teaching awards. He has served as a member of the executive committee of SIGKDD. He has published over 140 refereed articles, one monograph, and holds five patents. His research interests include data mining for streams and networks, fractals, indexing for multimedia and bio-informatics data bases, and performance.
He also received the ACM 2010 SIGKDD Innovation Award.
