Eleni Drinea
Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Computer Science; Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Eleni Drinea is a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Computer Science and in the Discipline of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research.
She is an affiliated member of the Foundations of Data Science Center of the Data Science Institute. She serves as the Director of the Master program in Data Science at Columbia University. Her research interests lie in theoretical computer science, and include randomized and graph algorithms, information theory, algorithms for big data, and dimensionality reduction techniques.
Eleni Drinea received her MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Harvard University. She then joined the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL, Switzerland, as a research associate. Her research at EPFL focused on reliable communication over wireless networks, using randomized online algorithms, approximation techniques and the network coding paradigm for network optimization.
Research Areas
- Information Retrieval & Web Search
- Optimization
- Resource Allocation
- Stochastic Modeling and Simulation
Additional Information
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Professional Experience
- Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Computer Science and in the Discipline of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, 2019-
- Lecturer in Discipline of Computer Science, Columbia University, 2014-2019
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Professional Affiliations
- Information Theory Society (ITSOC)
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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Honors & Awards
- Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award
- Columbia Engineering Alumni Association's (CEAA), 2019
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Education
- PhD, Computer Science, Harvard University
- MSc, Computer Science, Harvard University
- BS, Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras (Greece)