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Eleni Drinea is a Senior Lecturer at the Columbia Data Science Institute and holds a primary appointment in the Department of Computer Science, along with a joint appointment in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. She received her MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Harvard University. Prior to her current role, she was a research associate at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL, Switzerland. Drinea's research interests focus on theoretical computer science, encompassing randomized graph algorithms, information theory, big data algorithms, and dimensionality reduction techniques. She has served as the director of the Master of Data Science program at Columbia University for over seven years. Her contributions to education have been recognized with the Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award by the Columbia Engineering Alumni Association.
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