Jim Simons, the math genius who conquered Wall Street, died yesterday. Jim Simons was a renowned mathematician and hedge fund manager, widely recognized for founding Renaissance Technologies, one of the world’s most successful quantitative investment firms. With a background in mathematics, Simons contributed significantly to the field of geometry and topology before transitioning to finance. […]

My student Mr. Tianyi Chen defended yesterday successfully his thesis titled as “Dense Subgraph Discovery: Novel Algorithms and Applications”. The committee was composed of Prof. George Kollios, Prof. Evimaria Terzi, and Dr. Atsushi Miyauchi. Tianyi focused on addressing dense subgraph discovery issues in contemporary graph datasets, including uncertain graphs, multilayer networks, and graphs containing opinion […]

I had the honor to organize this year’s panel for the 10th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA). While social media platforms have enabled global connectivity, empowering voices and democratizing information, they have also inadvertently become conduits for the spread of false narratives and misleading information. The implications of this extend […]