EVANGELOS TRIANTAPHYLLOU, Ph.D. Professor

Business Address:         Dr. Evangelos Triantaphyllou         Louisiana State University         School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science         Division of Computer Science and Engineering         3272C Patrick F Taylor Hall         Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA                 Adjunct Faculty         Tulane University School of Medicine         Department of Medicine         Section of Hematology and Medical Oncology         1430 Tulane Avenue         New Orleans, LA 70112, USA         Phone (at LSU): (225) 578-1348,         FAX (at LSU): (225) 578-1465         E-mail: etriantaphyllou (at) yahoo.com         Personal Webpage (at LSU): http://www.csc.lsu.edu/trianta (this webpage)         Personal Webpage (at Tulane): Click here         Google-Scholar: Click here         Research Gate: Click here         LinkedIn: Click here Teaching Schedule for the Spring 2025 Semester: CSC 4512: Optimization Approaches in Computer Science: Algorithms and Applications Time and Location: Tuesday and Thursday, from 3:00 to 4:20 PM, in 1212 Patrick F Taylor (PFT) Hall. Click here for more information on this course (i.e., the syllabus in PDF). . Office Hours (Spring 2025): By appointment only. Make sure you use my Yahoo.com E-address: etriantaphyllou (at) yahoo.com

Books Published by Professor Evangelos Triantaphyllou

This is a new book authored by Professor Evangelos Triantaphyllou. Its title is: "Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Via Logic-Based Methods: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications." It was published on June 2010 by Springer. It is 350 pages long. Please click here or on the above image for more information on this book and also on how to buy it.

A unique book on Multi-Criteria Decision Making! This book is authored by Professor Evangelos Triantaphyllou. Its title is: "Multi-Criteria Decision Making Methods: A Comparative Study." It was published on November 2000 by Kluwer Academic Publishers (now Springer) and was reprinted since then. It is 320 pages long. Please click here or on the above image for more information on this book and also on how to buy it.

This book was co-edited by Drs. T. Warren Liao and Evangelos Triantaphyllou. Its title is: "Recent Advances in Data Mining of Enterprise Data: Algorithms and Applications." It was published on January 2008 by World Scientific Publishing. It is approximately 800 pages long. Please click here or on the above image for more information on this book and also on how to buy it.

This book was co-edited by Drs. Evangelos Triantaphyllou and Giovanni Felici. Its title is: "Data Mining and Knwoledge Discovery Approaches Based on Rule Induction Techniques." It was published on June 2006 by Springer. It is 820 pages long. Please click here or on the above image for more information on this book and also on how to buy it.

RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS!!!

• A new book on data mining by means of methods based on mathematical logic has been just (summer of 2010) published by Springer. It is authored by Dr. Triantaphyllou. The title of this book is "Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery via Logic-Based Methods: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications." It is 350 pages long. Next is some information regarding the topic and this new book.
  
  The importance of having efficient and effective methods for data mining and knowledge discovery (DM) is rapidly growing. This is due to the wide use of fast and affordable computing power and data storage media and also the gathering of huge amounts of data in almost all aspects of human activity and interest. While numerous methods have been developed, the focus of this book presents algorithms and applications using one popular method that has been formulated in terms of binary attributes, i.e., by Boolean functions defined on several attributes that are easily transformed into rules that can express new knowledge.
  
  This book presents methods that deal with key data mining and knowledge discovery issues in an intuitive manner, in a natural sequence, and in a way that can be easily understood and interpreted by a wide array of experts and end users. The presentation provides a unique perspective into the essence of some fundamental DM issues, many of which come from important real life applications such as breast cancer diagnosis.
  
  Applications and algorithms are accompanied by extensive experimental results and are presented in a way such that anyone with a minimum background in mathematics and computer science can benefit from the exposition. Rigor in mathematics and algorithmic development is not compromised and each chapter systematically offers some possible extensions for future research.


For more information on this book please click here.
Date posted: June 7, 2010





(Former) LSU Chancellor Sean O'Keefe and E. Triantaphyllou during the LSU Faculty Awards Ceremony on May 2006






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EDUCATION:

• Dual Ph.D. (in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research), 1990, Penn State University.


• M.S. (in Computer Science), 1988, Penn State University.


• Dual M.S. (in Environment and Operations Research), 1985, Penn State University.


• B.S. (in Architectural Engineering), 1983, Nat'l Technical University of Athens, Greece.

Dr. Triantaphyllou's education details and related links

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:

• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Multi-Criteria Decision Making
• Medical Informatics
• Discrete Optimization, Operations Research

His Research Has Been Supported by:

• Office of Naval Research (ONR), U.S. Navy
• LaSPACE (a NASA/NSF/State of LA program)
• National Research Council (NRC), (COBASE and CAST programs)
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
• AT&T
• Stanley S. Scott Cancer Research Center, LSU in New Orleans, LA
• the State of Louisiana

For a detailed description of our research activities, please see the various links on the left strip.

Selected Awards and Recognitions:
(For details please see the awards section in this web page)

• In 2005 Dr. Triantaphyllou received an LSU Distinguished Faculty Award. This prestigious LSU award recognizes faculty members with sustained records in teaching, research, service, and/or any combination of the three. LSU’s Executive Vice-Chancellor and Provost Risa Palm and LSU’s Chancellor Sean O’Keefe presented this award to him during a special LSU faculty award ceremony in May 2006.


• In 2004 Dr. Triantaphyllou won the Outstanding Professor of the Year Award while he was with the IE (Industrial Engineering) Departmnet at LSU.
• In 2004 Ms. Xiaoting Wang (a Doctoral student of Dr. Triantaphyllou’s) received an award of $1,000 by the Governor’s Office on Environmental Education (for the State of Louisiana) for her research on Multi-Criteria Decision Making. This was after a statewide competition.


• In 2004 Mr. Hunter A. Marks and Dr. Triantaphyllou received a $5,000 LaSpace (LURA Program) Award to support research on Multi-Criteria Decision Making. Hunter is an undergraduate student in the IE Department at LSU working on research on Multi-Criteria Decision Making with Dr. Triantaphyllou. This was award was given after a statewide competition.


• Two Ph.D. Dissertation awards in 2003! In May 2003 Dr. Vetle I. Torvik, former Ph.D. student of Dr. Triantaphyllou, received the Best Engineering Ph.D. Dissertation Award (accompanied with a $1,000 honorarium) and also the LSU Alumni Distinguished Dissertation Award (the highest Ph.D. Dissertation award at LSU) for his Ph.D. research on data mining.


• In 2001 Dr. Triantaphyllou received a Dean's Book Award for his book: Multi-Criteria Decision Making Methods: A Comparative Study, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Fall of 2000, "in recognition for this scholarly publication." This award was accompanied with a $1,000 honorarium.


• In 2000 Rafael C. Estrella and Vetle I. Torvik, two Ph.D. students of Dr. Triantaphyllou, each received one Louisiana Engineering Foundation's Vincent A. Forte Graduate School Fellowship (a state-wide award) for excellence in their Ph.D. studies. Only two such awards were available for the entire State of Louisiana.


• In 1998 Dr. Triantaphyllou won the Research Award in Operations Research by the Institute of Industrial Engineers (for details please see the awards section in this web page).


• In 1996 Aniruddha S. Deshpande, a graduate student of Dr. Triantaphyllou, won the Second Place Graduate Research Award by the Institute of Industrial Engineering.


• In 1993 Dr. Triantaphyllou won the Outstanding Teacher Award in IE while he was at K-State University.

      Professor Triantaphyllou has published numerous refereed papers in some of the most prestigious research journals in his areas of expertise and has made more than 40 conference presentations, most of which were invited. He served in the organizing committees of 3 international conferences and organized and chaired numerous invited sessions in conferences. He also served (1995-97) as the Chairman of the Speakers Program of INFORMS (former ORSA/TIMS).

      Besides refereeing for many prominent research journals, Professor Triantaphyllou also serves in the editorial boards of four journals in the areas of OR, CS, and IE. He also frequently serves in reviewing panels for the NSF (National Science Foundation) and NRC (National Research Council). He has co-edited a number of special issues, authored a monograph on multi-criteria decision making which has been published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in the fall of 2000, and co-edited a book on data mining (published by Springer in the spring of 2006).

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