Mining of Massive Datasets - Grand Format

Jure Leskovec is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. His research focuses on mining large social and information networks. Problems he investigates are motivated by large scale data, the Web and on-line media. This research has won several awards including a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, Okawa Foundation Fellowship, and numerous best paper awards.
Leskovec has also authored the Stanford Network Analysis Platform (SNAP, http :// snap.stanford.edu), a general purpose network analysis and graph mining library that easily scales to massive networks with hundreds of millions of nodes and billions of edges. You can follow him on Twitter at @jure. Anand Rajaraman is a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and academic based in Silicon Valley. He has founded two successful startups : Junglee, acquired by Amazon.com and Kosmix, acquired by Walmart.
As a Founding Partner of two early-stage venture capital firms, Milliways Labs and Cambrian Ventures, he has been the earliest investor in many successful companies. Anand was, until recently, Senior Vice President at Walmart Global eCommerce and co-head of ©WalmartLabs, where he worked at the intersection of social, mobile, and commerce. As an academic, Anand's research has focused at the intersection of database systems, the World Wide Web, and social media.
His research publications have won several awards at prestigious academic conferences, including two retrospective 10-year Best Paper awards at ACM SIGMOD and VLDB. He is also a co-inventor of Amazon Mechanical Turk, which pioneered the concept of crowdsourcing. You can follow Anand on Twitter at ©anand_raj. Jeffrey David Ullman is the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Computer Science (Emeritus) and he is currently the CEO of Gradiance.
His research interests include database theory, data mining, and education using the information infrastructure. He is one of the founders of the field of database theory, and was the doctoral advisor of an entire generation of students who later became leading database theorists in their own right. Recent awards include the Knuth Prize (2000), and the Sigmod E. F. Codd Innovations award (2006). Ullman is also the co-recipient (with John Hoperoft) of the 2010 IEEE John von Neumann Medal, for "laying the foundations for the fields of automata and language theory and many seminal contributions to theoretical computer science."