Students, Postdocs and Other Collaborators

Students/Postdocs I am currently working with

• Iain Murray (Toronto/Edinburgh)

Students who have completed theses under my (co)supervision:

• Dustin Lang (PhD, 2009) Automatic Recognition and Calibration of Astronomical Images [pdf]
  [External Examiner: Doug Finkbeiner, Harvard]
  
• Graham Taylor (PhD, 2009, co-advisor Geoff Hinton) Composable, distributed-state models for high-dimensional time-series [pdf]
  [External Examiner: Chris Bregler, NYU]
  
• Ruslan Salakhutdinov (PhD, 2009, co-advisor Geoff Hinton) Learning Deep Generative Models [pdf]
  [External Examiner: Mike Jordan, UC Berkeley]
  
• Ted Meeds (PhD, 2008)
  Nonparametric Bayesian Methods for Extracting Structure from Data [pdf]
  [External Examiner: Max Welling, UC Irvine]
  
• Kannan Achan (PhD, 2007, co-advisor Brendan Frey)
  Probabilistic Models of Time Domain Speech Signals [thesis pdf]
  [External Examiner: Li Deng, Microsoft Research]
  
• Jennifer Listgarten (PhD 2007, co-advisor Radford Neal)
  Analysis of sibling time series data: alignment and difference detection [thesis, code, data]
  [External Examiner: Kevin Murphy, UBC]
  
• Scott Leishman (MSC 2007).
  Shape Free Statistical Information in Optical Character Recognition [pdf]
  [Second Reader: Rich Zemel, UofT]
  
• Kevin Laven (MSC 2005).
  Application of Statistical Pattern Recognition to Document Segmentation and Labelling [pdf, ps.gz]
  [Second Reader: Rich Zemel, UofT]
  
• Chris Harvey (MSC 2004).
  New Algorithms for Automated Astrometry [pdf]
  [Second Reader: David Hogg, NYU]
  
• Sean Wood (BApSc Thesis 2004).
  An Inverted Index Approach to Music Retrieval
• Yousuf Shamim Ahmed (MSC 2004).
  Multiple Random Projection for Fast, Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search in High Dimensions [pdf]
  [Second Reader: Avner Magen, UofT]
  
• Ruslan Salakhutdinov (MSC 2003)
  Efficient Optimization Algorithms for Learning [pdf]
  [Second Reader: Zoubin Ghahramani, Gatsby Unit]

Other Co-Conspirators at NYU

• David Hogg, Michael Blanton (NYU Astrophysics)

External Collaborators

• Geoff Hinton, Radford Neal, Rich Zemel, Aaron Hertzmann, Brendan Frey, Quaid Morris (Toronto)
• Yoram Singer (Google and Hebrew University)
• Zoubin Ghahramani (Cambridge University)
• Amir Globerson (Hebrew University)
• Lawrence Saul (UCSD)
• Andrew McCallum (U.Mass CS)

Previous Group Members/Collaborators

• Jon Barron(Toronto/NYU/Google, now at Berkeley)
• Ben Marlin (Zemel lab)
• Keir Mierle (now at Google, Mountain View; works on astrometry.net project)
• Kannan Achan (now at Microsoft Research, Mountain View; completed his PhD with myself and Brendan Frey in 2007)
• Jennifer Listgarten (now at Microsoft Research, Redmond; completed her PhD with myself and Radford Neal in 2007)
• Nati Srebro (now at TTI-Chicago; did a postdoc in Toronto from 2005-2008)
• Yee Whye Teh (now at Gatsby Unit, London; Toronto postdoc 2002-2003)
• Mathew Beal (now at Citadel Chicago; was a postdoc in Toronto from 2002-2004)
• Jacob Goldberger (now Bar-Ilan University, Israel; was a postdoc in Toronto from 2003-2004)
• Scott Leishman (now at Fair Isaac, San Diego; completed his MSC with me in 2007)
• Khashayar Rohanimanesh (now at MIT; visited Toronto from U.Mass Amherst fall 2003 till summer 2005)
• Jakob Verbeek (now at INRIA; visited Toronto from U.Amsterdam May-September 2003)
• Joaquin Quinonero Candela (now at MSR Cambridge UK; visited Toronto May-November 2003 from Danish Technical U.)
• Sean Wood (now at McGill; did his Senior Thesis with me in 2004 on music track identification)
• Christopher Stumm (now at Microsoft, Redmond; works on the astromery.net project)

Sam Roweis, Vision, Learning and Graphics Group, NYU, www.cs.nyu.edu/~roweis