CD author nominated for TU/e Academic Awards

Koen Minartz, lead researcher and inventor of the original CD static algorithm, has been nominated for the TU/e Best Overall Master Thesis awards for his work on Correlation Detective. In his thesis, Koen worked on scalable detection of complex similarities in big (static) data which contributed to the paper Multivariate Correlations Discovery in Static and Streaming data (VLDB 2022).

The TU/e Academic Awards is an annual event where Eindhoven University of Technology celebrates students and researchers who produced the best thesis, in four different categories: Bachelor, Master, EngD, and PhD. For each category, one student/researcher is nominated from each department. Winners are chosen by an independent multidisciplinary panel of professors. The list of candidates can be found here

This nomination alone is a well deserved recognition for his hard work on the project, leading to a honourable graduation and a paper at a prestigious conference. We are obviously cheering for him to win. Go Koen!

Koen is currently working as a PhD student at the TU/e Data Mining group under the supervision of Vlado Menkovski. Although Koen is still affiliated with the Correlation Detective project, he is currently focusing on simulation of biological systems with Machine Learning techniques. LinkedIn