People

I grew up in Palm Bay, Florida. I attended the University of Florida and studied electrical engineering while working for Keith Doty in robotics. After graduating and spending a short time as a hardware and software designer in the telecom industry, I joined the robotics institute to study machine learning. My thesis work involves theoretical and practical issues in applying machine learning to make decisions.

Alex's fascinations in early grade school were Legos, breaking ciphers, and drawing human anatomy. After studying Applied Math and Computer Science at Berkeley, he resisted a job offer to do Hollywood special effects and ended up working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for six years developing machine learning algorithms for interesting and hard scientific problems (as well as trading options on the side). He finally realized that having non-trivial ideas is effectively not allowed without having a PhD, so he went to CMU to get one. His current fascinations are still building (systems that really solve hard problems that people really want solved), deciphering (things that seem complicated), and creating (new and inspiring ways of looking at things).

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -> Vancouver, British Columbia -> Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Ph.D. Machine Learning, Carnegie Mellon University, PA
M.S. Statistical and Automated Learning,  Carnegie Mellon University, PA

M.Ph. Astronomy, Yale University, CT
M.S. Astronomy, Yale University, CT

B.A. Mathematics & Astronomy/Physics Whitman College, WA

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

I started life in Spokane, Washington. In 1997 I received a B.S. in mathematics at Western Washington University in Bellingham, the northern-most city in the continental US. Carnegie Mellon University awarded me a Master's in Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization (ACO) in 1999. My ACO Ph.D was awarded in May 2004.

I came to CMU directly after finishing my undergraduate degree in computer science at Cornell University. During undergrad I also had a chance to spend two summers working at research labs (PARC and FXPAL) in California doing robotics/AI research and biking.

I finished my undergraduate degree in computer science at Tsinghua University, China. Now I am a third year graduate student in CMU computer science department.

I received my bachelors degree in computer science and engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2004. Now I am a fourth year graduate student in the Machine Learning Department at CMU.

I am originally from north India. I got my bachelors degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics and Economics from the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. My final-year research work with Gaurav Sukhatme led me to the Robotics Institute at CMU, where I'm currently working on my doctorate with Andrew Moore.

I got my master degree in Information System Management (MISM) from Carnegie Mellon University in December 2004. I had consistent exposure to data mining related course work and projects during my four semesters there which led me to my position in the lab. I once worked on several data mining/business intelligence projects in application domains of machinery, commercial product, biomedical and medical information system etc. Before that, I spent around 4 years in the business world as financial analyst with Coca-Cola China and as an auditor with Big 4 accounting firm. I once tried out the taste of the journalism by being involved in a Chinese Entrepreneurship research project sponsored by Forbes magazine, finally was not convinced that this is the type of job that I like.

I am a native Chinese from Shanghai, mainland China. I got my Bachelor of Engineering degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University(SJTU), with major in international business and double major in computer science.

I am a graduate student in the School of Information Systems (Heinz College).

www.cs.cmu.edu/~anagasun/

Artur Dubrawski considers himself a scientist and a practitioner. He has been tainted with real world entrepreneurial experiences. He had started up a successful company specializing in integration and deployment of advanced control systems and technological devices. He had also been affiliated with startups incorporated by others: Schenley Park Research, a data mining consultancy and a CMU spin-off, where he was a scientist; and Aethon, a company building robots to automate transportation in hospitals, where he served as a Chief Technical Officer. Artur returned to CMU in 2003 to rejoin the Robotics Institute's Auton Lab. He works on a range of applied computer intelligence endeavors, and he teaches data mining and business intelligence to graduate students at the CMU Heinz College School of Information Systems and Management. In his previous academic life, he pursued machine learning approaches to mobile robot navigation and control, and other applications of adaptive autonomous systems. Artur received a Ph.D. in robotics and automation from the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, and a M.Sc. in aircraft engineering from Warsaw University of Technology. In 1995/96 he spent a year at CMU as a visiting Fulbright scholar. In January 2006 Artur Dubrawski was named the director of the Auton Lab.

Dr. Jeff Schneider is an associate research professor in the Carnegie
Mellon University School of Computer Science.  He received his PhD in
Computer Science from the University of Rochester in 1995.  He has over 15
years experience developing, publishing, and applying machine learning
algorithms in government, science, and industry.  He has dozens of
publications and has given numerous invited talks and tutorials on the
subject.

Dr. Schneider was the co-founder and CEO of Schenley Park Research,
Inc. (SPR), a company dedicated to bringing new machine learning algorithms
to industry.  Later, he developed a new machine-learning based CNS drug
discovery system and spent a two-year sabbatical as the Chief Informatics
Officer of Psychogenics, Inc. to set up and commercialize the system.  Through
his work at CMU and his commercial and consulting efforts, he has worked
with several dozen companies and government agencies including ten Fortune
500 companies, and groups from around the world.

M.S. in Computer Science, National Taiwan University, 2006

B.S.E in Computer Science, National Taiwan University, 2004

C.V.

Graduate student in Language Technologies

I am a first year Ph.D. student in Machine Learning Department in Carnegie Mellon University. My research interests center around applying machine learning and optimization techniques to real-life challenges and seeing how these methods can be improved. I have research experiences in pattern recognition, dynamic control systems, and approximation algorithms. 

I have a solid background in math, control, and artificial intelligence. I maintained the 1st overall GPA (93.4 on a 100 scale) among 170 students in department of Automation by the time of graduate school application. In addition, I received a 94% percentile ranking in the GRE Math Subject test whose test-taker body is primarily math-major students. I was one of the 11 students who fulfilled a dual major in Mathematics in a class of 3000+ students.

I'm a first-year PhD student in the Computer Science Department, working with Jeff Schneider on machine learning techniques that use groups of data rather than single feature vectors as the unit of interest. The primary application I've been focusing on is using this techniques to help understand the results of large-scale scientific simulations.

I did my undergraduate work at Swarthmore College in CS, linguistics, and math.

I'm a first-year PhD student in Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University, working with Prof. Jeff Schneider. Before that, I received my Bachelor of Engineering from Department of Computer Science and Technology in Tsinghua University, China.

I am a PhD student at Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. I work with Jeff Schneider on learning with limited supervision by encoding extra side information. I'm also interested in large-scale web mining and parallel machine learning (see my website for details). I've worked as summer interns on behavioral targeting and computational advertising at Yahoo! Labs and parallel machine learning on Hadoop at IBM T.J. Watson.

My research has been supported by IBM PhD Fellowships and Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Awards. Thanks IBM and Yahoo!

I am a second year Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon. I received my undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Electrical/Computer Engineering in May 2004, also from Carnegie Mellon. I have previously interned at Global InfoTek, a government contractor in Northern Virginia, and more recently at the IBM Almaden Research Center, working on the WebFountain project.

Pat Gunn graduated from Ohio State University in 2001 with a CS degree. While a student, he worked as a research programmer in OSU's CS dept's AI Lab, trained users, and worked for OSU's Networking Group. Since then, he has worked as a systems administrator and a programmer in 2 small companies. He moved to Pittsburgh in August 2002. He has since moved to the Act-R lab in the Psychology department.

Graduate Student at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz School

Student Research Programmer at Auton Lab

Contact Information:

Email: lokesh@cmu.edu

Cellphone: +1 201 786 8086

Free/busy information: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=lokesh.jagasia%40gmail.com&ctz=America/New_York

I'm just another boy meets computer story.  Born and raised in Pittsburgh, I've been fighting it out on the forefront of technology for a while now.   My background spans at lot of Windows development,  a good bit of speech recognition, and a ample helping of database work.   I've worked on various commercial applications mostly in the A/V markets and several large research projects related to data mining and content understanding.  I get excited about memory and CPU optimization.

I  like my road bike tons. I snowboard whenever I get a chance.  I play the guitar poorly.  I also play far too many board games.

I received my Masters Degree in mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1998. I then worked as a user interface developer for Ansoft Corporation for four and a half years. I joined the Auton Lab in June of 2003 and worked on the 'applic' project, creating a generic graphical interface to interact with many of the lab's research algorithms.

My current work includes managing the team of staff research programmers and leading the development work on a new graphical and script accessible framework for data mining algorithms to plug in to.

Andrew began his career writing video-games for an obscure British personal computer. He rapidly became a thousandaire and retired to academia, where he received a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1991. He researched robot learning as a Post-doc working with Chris Atkeson, and then moved to a faculty position at Carnegie Mellon.

I am a PhD. Student at the department of Computer Science at the university of Aalborg, Denmark, and there I am part of the Machine Intelligence group. As part of my studies, I am visiting the Auton Lab for 6 month from early March to late August 2005.

A pseudo-native of California, I received both my undergraduate and graduate education from the University of California, Berkeley. My Ph.D. advisor was Dr. Michael Jordan. I joined the Auton Lab in October 2006 as a postdoctoral fellow.

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow working with professor Jeff Schneider at the Auton Lab, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. My research interests lie in the theoretical questions of statistics and their applications to machine learning. After working as a lecturer at the Eotvos Lorand university, Budapest, Hungary, I moved to Edmonton, Canada and conducted research from 2007 through 2010 spring as a postdoctoral fellow at the Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Machine Learning.

From a young age, I was fascinated with and destined to work in computers.  After studying computer programming, sciences and media arts during high school, I earned my associate degree in Computer Information Management in 2001. In 2002, I began working at the Tribune-Review Publishing Co. as support technician. In less than a year, I had taken on more complex tasks such as maintaining server infrastructure and deploying new servers, designing and setting up network and server monitoring facilities, and so on. Towards the end of my time there, I was customizing open source systems for business needs, among other programming tasks supporting newspaper production.  I joined the Auton Lab in 2005.  In 2008, I completed a B.S. in I.T. and Management from Point Park University.

Here at the Lab, I work on sponsored projects performing data manipulation and programming tasks.  I contribute to the testing and deployment of our software.  I also manage the computing infrastructure at the lab which consists of over 50 servers (web, mail, file, database, and cycle servers), desktops and laptops, handling both hardware and software issues.  The infrastructure also includes firewalls, VPNs, security and backups.  My preference for any server system is to run Linux where possible.  I tend to code most often in Java, bash, and Perl, though I do use other tools where appropriate.