2026 Petros Drineas: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	55	4274	4156	2014	1944	156	13684

Research.com Recognitions

2009 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Petros Drineas is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and computer science.

Their work includes contributions in the following main fields of study:

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Computer Science

Within these areas, the subfields of study that characterize their research include:

Genetics
Molecular Biology
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Artificial Intelligence
Computational Mechanics

The main topics covered by Drineas' work involve:

Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
Matrix Theory and Algorithms
Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques
Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

Recent publications of Petros Drineas include:

"Polygenic risk score-based phenome-wide association study identifies novel associations for Tourette syndrome," 2023, Translational Psychiatry
"Integrating Linguistics, Social Structure, and Geography to Model Genetic Diversity within India," 2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution
"PheWAS and cross-disorder analysis reveal genetic architecture, pleiotropic loci and phenotypic correlations across 11 autoimmune disorders," 2023, Frontiers in Immunology
"Enhancing neuroimaging genetics through meta-analysis for Tourette syndrome (ENIGMA-TS): A worldwide platform for collaboration," 2022, Frontiers in Psychiatry
"Constructing Compact Signatures for Individual Fingerprinting of Brain Connectomes," 2021, Frontiers in Neuroscience

Drineas has frequently collaborated with other researchers, notably:

Peristera Paschou
Gregory Dexter
Agniva Chowdhury
Pritesh Jain
Aritra Bose

The venues where Drineas has published most frequently consist of:

arXiv (Cornell University)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications
Translational Psychiatry
Molecular Biology and Evolution

Petros Drineas was honored as an ACM Senior Member in 2009.

Best Publications

On the Nyström Method for Approximating a Gram Matrix for Improved Kernel-Based Learning

Petros Drineas;Michael W. Mahoney

1027
Citations
CUR matrix decompositions for improved data analysis

Michael W. Mahoney;Petros Drineas

972
Citations
Clustering Large Graphs via the Singular Value Decomposition

P. Drineas;A. Frieze;R. Kannan;S. Vempala

693
Citations
Fast Monte Carlo Algorithms for Matrices II: Computing a Low-Rank Approximation to a Matrix

Petros Drineas;Ravi Kannan;Michael W. Mahoney

659
Citations
Relative-Error $CUR$ Matrix Decompositions

Petros Drineas;Michael W. Mahoney;S. Muthukrishnan

598
Citations
Fast Monte Carlo Algorithms for Matrices I: Approximating Matrix Multiplication

Petros Drineas;Ravi Kannan;Michael W. Mahoney

542
Citations
Faster least squares approximation

Petros Drineas;Michael W. Mahoney;S. Muthukrishnan;Tamás Sarlós

536
Citations
Fast approximation of matrix coherence and statistical leverage

Petros Drineas;Malik Magdon-Ismail;Michael W. Mahoney;David P. Woodruff

483
Citations
An improved approximation algorithm for the column subset selection problem

Christos Boutsidis;Michael W. Mahoney;Petros Drineas

453
Citations
Fast Monte Carlo Algorithms for Matrices III: Computing a Compressed Approximate Matrix Decomposition

Petros Drineas;Ravi Kannan;Michael W. Mahoney

394
Citations
PCA-correlated SNPs for structure identification in worldwide human populations.

Peristera Paschou;Elad Ziv;Esteban G Burchard;Shweta Choudhry

347
Citations
Sampling algorithms for l2 regression and applications

Petros Drineas;Michael W. Mahoney;S. Muthukrishnan

338
Citations
Randomized Dimensionality Reduction for $k$ -Means Clustering

Christos Boutsidis;Anastasios Zouzias;Michael W. Mahoney;Petros Drineas

279
Citations
RandNLA: randomized numerical linear algebra

Petros Drineas;Michael W. Mahoney

270
Citations
Clustering in large graphs and matrices

P. Drineas;Alan Frieze;Ravi Kannan;Santosh Vempala

265
Citations
Feature selection methods for text classification

Anirban Dasgupta;Petros Drineas;Boulos Harb;Vanja Josifovski

257
Citations
Atomic-level characterization of the ensemble of the Aβ(1-42) monomer in water using unbiased molecular dynamics simulations and spectral algorithms.

Nikolaos G. Sgourakis;Myrna Merced-Serrano;Christos Boutsidis;Petros Drineas

247
Citations
Tensor-CUR Decompositions for Tensor-Based Data

Michael W. Mahoney;Mauro Maggioni;Petros Drineas

242
Citations
Energy minimization via graph cuts: settling what is possible

D. Freedman;P. Drineas

236
Citations
Sampling algorithms for l 2 regression and applications

Petros Drineas;Michael W. Mahoney;S. Muthukrishnan

233
Citations
Near-Optimal Column-Based Matrix Reconstruction

Christos Boutsidis;Petros Drineas;Malik Magdon-Ismail

188
Citations
Fast approximation of matrix coherence and statistical leverage

Petros Drineas;Malik Magdon-ismail;David Woodruff;Michael W. Mahoney

118
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael W. Mahoney University of California, Berkeley

Malik Magdon-Ismail Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Yiorgos Makris The University of Texas at Dallas

Ravi Kannan Microsoft (United States)

David P. Woodruff Carnegie Mellon University

Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan Kansas State University

Kenneth K. Kidd Yale University

George Stamatoyannopoulos University of Washington

Ananth Grama Purdue University West Lafayette

John A. Stamatoyannopoulos University of Washington

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