Anna Goldenberg

anya@cmu.edu

Graduate Student

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Biography

Voronezh (Russia) (17) ->
Louisville, KY (4) ->
CMU (1) -> Bell Labs (.9) -> CMU

Research Interests

Efficient Analysis of Large Datasets (aka Data Mining)
Statistical Computation
Currently working on learning associations from large sparse matrices

Tags

Bayesian Networks, Biosurveillance, GDA, Link Analysis

Papers

• Empirical Bayes Screening for Link Analysis (2003)
  An algorithm for discovering top N strange co-occurences of size 2,3,4, etc Uses ideas of frequent sets, but stratifies them according to a statistically justified hierarchical bayes model, using empirical bayes to find the parameters
• A Comparison of Statistical and Machine Learning Algorithms on the Task of Link Completion (2003)
  This paper examines the task of link completion, relative algorithm performance, and what this can tell us about the structure of the data.

Software

• SBNS
  Screen-based Bayes Net Structure search. A computationally efficient algorithm that performs Bayes Net structural learning from a very large binary dataset.