ML Research Day at Carnegie Mellon University
 
 
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Roberts Hall, Singleton Room

Attendance is limited to 50 people. To reserve your seat, please RSVP to Sharon Cavlovich

Agenda:

9:15
Continental Breakfast
9:30

Overview of Machine Learning Department
Tom Mitchell, Department Head

9:45
"Project GATTACA: Accelerating Biomedical Exploration"
Roni Rosenfeld, Professor
10:05

"Machine Learning for Auction/Mechanism Design and Pricing Problems"
Avrim Blum, PhD Student

10:25

"If you know the questions, It's much easier to find the answer: Query-specific Graphical Models"
Carlos Guestrin, Assistant Professor

10:45
Break
11:00
"Terrorists, Obesity, Zebras, and Monks in a Monastery: Dynamic Network Models"
Stephen Fienberg, Professor
11:20
"Finding Patterns in Large Graphs"
Christos Faloutsos, Professor
11:40
"Automated Construction of Models of Subcellular Location"
Robert Murphy, Professor
12:00
Lunch
1:20
"Classifying Mental States from Brain Images"
Tom Mitchell, Professor
1:40
"Optimizing Sensing from Water to the Web"
Andreas Krause, PhD Student
2:00
MLD Ph.D. Student Presentations
2:20
Break
2:35
"Modeling Consumer Search for Making Online Advertising Decisions"
Alan Montgomery, Associate Professor
2:50
"It's a low-rank world after all: Learning to predict by dimensionality reduction"
Geoff Gordon, Associate Research Professor
3:10
"Learning Dynamic Maps of Gene Regulation"
Jason Ernst, PhD Student


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