Charalampos Chelmis

Charalampos Chelmis

Faculty Fellow

Brief Bio

Charalampos Chelmis is Assistant Professor of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is also the founder and director of the Intelligent Big Data Analytics, Applications, and Systems Lab (IDIAS). His research primarily focuses on socially-important data science involving data-intensive computation over high-dimensional and/or interrelated data. He is the recipient of several awards, including the National Science Foundation CRII award (2019), the University at Albany's Next Research Frontier Award (2019), and the DARPA Chikungunya challenge methodology award (2015). Charalampos earned his Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science in 2013 and 2010, respectively from the University of Southern California, and B.S. in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras, Greece in 2007. During 2014-2016, he was Research Associate with the Data Science Lab at the University of Southern California. He has authored/co-authored over 100 research papers and journal articles at top computer science conferences and journals. He has also co-organized 3 tutorials (IEEE BigData'17, AAAI ICWSM'18, and WebSci'21). He is on the Technical Program Committee of international conferences including AAAI, TheWebConf, and WSDM, and the editorial board of journals including Social Network Analysis and Mining.