Petros Drineas

News: 2023

Dec '23: Our department marks its 60th anniversary! 

Nov '23: Video from my talk at the Optimization and Algorithm Design workshop at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley. 

Aug '23: Video from my talk at the BIRS Workshop on New Directions in Applied Linear Algebra.

Jul '23: Congratulations to Myson Burch for successfully defending his thesis. Myson will join the Computational Genomics Group at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center.

Jun '23: Purdue launched partnerships with multiple Greek Universities (National Technical University of Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University of Patras, and Democritus University), as well as with the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce. Press releases covering the partnerships:

May '23: I am honored to have been selected by Purdue University to serve as a Big Ten Academic Alliance Program (ALP) Fellow in 2022-2023. 

May '23: Celebrating 60 years of Purdue CS: pushing the field forward and stories from students, alumni, and faculty. Purdue CS is ranked #16 by the U.S. News & World Report and #15 by CSrankings.

May '23: Slides and video from my talk at the 1W-MINDS seminar.

Apr '23: SIAM Fellow, Class of 2023 (Purdue press release)

Mar '23: Congratulations to Pritesh Jain for for successfully defending his thesis. Pritesh will join the LKCMedicine group at the Nanyang Technological University Singapore as a Research Fellow. 

Feb '23: I am honored to have received Purdue's College of Science Diversity Award.

Jan '23: I am honored to have been appointed a Purdue University Faculty Scholar.