Graham Cormode


Office location	Room 1.10 Mathematical Sciences Building Department of Computer Science University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.
Email	g.cormode@warwick.ac

I am a research scientist at Facebook, and a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick in the UK. From 2016-2021, I was the Warwick University Liaison Director for the Alan Turing Institute in London. My research interests are in data privacy, data stream analysis, massive data sets, and general algorithmic problems. My work on statistical analysis of data has been recognized by the 2017 Adams Prize in Mathematics and as a Fellow of the ACM. Previously, I have been a researcher at AT&T Labs--Research in New Jersey, and at Lucent Bell Laboratories, with focus on Network Management. Previously, I was a Postdoc researcher at the DIMACS research facility, which is located at Rutgers University.
I retain connections to DIMACS and to MassDAL -- the Massive Data Analysis Lab. I did my PhD work at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick, UK, and spent some time studying in Cleveland, Ohio at Case Western Reserve University with the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department .

My research is based in the area of Algorithms and Complexity, and my thesis was based around problems using distances between combinatorial objects. This includes issues related to communication efficiency and error correction; data compression and pattern matching; sketch and streaming algorithms; geometric problems such as nearest neighbors algorithms, and so on. You can find my academic papers and research here, along with various other diversions.

Recent news

Research group.

Mary Scott (PhD Student)
Sam Maddock (PhD Student)
Ari Biswas (PhD Student)

Research group alumni

Charlie Dickens (PhD Student → Yahoo)
Pavel Vesely (Postdoctoral researcher → Charles University)
Michael Shekelyan (Postdoctoral researcher → King's College London → QMUL)
Chris Hickey (PhD Student → University of Manchester → Arup)
Jacques Dark (PhD Student → Stratasys)
Rajesh Chitnis (Postdoctoral researcher → University of Birmingham)
Vincent Hall (Postdoctoral researcher → Creavo Medical)
Tejas Kulkarni (PhD Studen → University of Aalto → Nokia Bell Labs)
Hossein Jowhari (Postdoctoral researcher → K.N. Toosi University of Technology)

Prospective students. I am interested to hear from strong potential PhD students and postdocs with backgrounds in algorithms/mathematics wanting to work in the following areas:

Streaming/sketching for rapid processing of big data. Look at this book chapter for some examples.
Anonymization and privacy for diverse data. See this tutorial on differential privacy.
Distributed monitoring of evolving data. See this short survey for details and definitions.
Verification of outsourced computations. Look at these slides for some examples.

If you are interested in any of these topics, or other problems in the area of mining and analyzing large amounts of data, send email to the address above. Note that I do not have support or projects for interns -- questions about "internships" may not receive a response.

And finally... You get to meet all the top people if you do computer science... and it pays the bills

GRC Last updated Sep 2017 -- 270677