Computer Science
Augustin Chaintreau analyzes the mathematics of personal information, measures online social applications at scale, and designs algorithms that run on those large data sets. Those data are the bits your cellphone, your credit card, this website, and your social media transmit every time you interact with them. In large quantities, those bits about human behaviors and social interactions exhibit unique mathematical properties, best described with probabilities and graphs.
- Assistant professor of computer science, Columbia University, 2010–
- Member of the technical staff, Thomson Technicolor Research Lab, 2005-2010
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Société Mathématique de France (SMF)
- NSF CAREER, 2013
- ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star Award, 2013
- 2015-2019: co-PI for National Science Foundation Award CNS 1514437 “Scalable Web Transparency: New Scientific Building Blocks, Tools, and Measurements to Tame the Data - Driven Web”
- 2013-2018: PI for National Science Foundation CAREER Award CNS 1254035 “Ba- nalytics: Behavioral Network Analytics for Data Transparency”
- M. Lecuyer, M. Tucker and A. Chaintreau, Improving the Transparency of the Sharing Economy in Proceedings of ACM WWW, Apr. 2017.
- M. Gabielkov, A. Ramachandran, A. Chaintreau, and A. Legout, Social Clicks: What and Who Gets Read on Twitter? in Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS, June 2016.
- Y. Zeng, A. Chaintreau, D. Towsley, and C. Xia, A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Throughput Scalability of Fork and Join Networks with Blocking in Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS, June 2016.
- C. Riederer, Y. Kim, A. Chaintreau, N. Korula and S. Lattanzi, Linking Users Across Domains with Location Data: Theory and Validation in Proceedings of ACM WWW, Apr. 2016.
- C. Riederer, S. Zimmeck, C. Phanord, A. Chaintreau, and S. M. Bellovin, I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints.: Revealing the Demographics of Location Data, in Proceedings of ACM COSN 2015, Nov. 2015.
- A. Ramachandran and A. Chaintreau, Who Contributes to the Knowledge Sharing Economy? pp. 3748. in Proceedings of ACM COSN 2015, Nov. 2015.
- M. Lecuyer, R. Spahn, Y. Spiliopolous, A. Chaintreau, R. Geambasu, and D. Hsu, Sunlight: Fine-grained Targeting Detection at Scale with Statistical Confidence, in Proceedings of ACM CCS 2015, Oct. 2015.
- A. Ramachandran, A. Chaintreau. ”I knew they clicked when I saw them with their friends” In Proceedings of ACM COSN 2014, Oct. 2014.
- M. Lécuyer, G. Ducoffe, F. Lan, A. Papancea, T. Petsios, R. Spahn, A. Chaintreau, and R. Geambasu XRay: Enhancing the Web’s Transparency with Differential Cor- relation In Proceedings of USENIX Security, Aug. 2014.
- A. May, A. Chaintreau, N. Korula, S. Lattanzi. Filter & Follow: Do Social Media En- courage Efficient News Curation? In Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS, June 2014.