UT Austin Data Mining Seminar Series

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Presentation schedule:

Date & Time

Location

Speaker

Title

Slides/Videos

Thr. Feb. 23, 2012 @2:00 pm

ACES
2.402

Geoff Gordon
Carnegie Mellon University

Spectral learning algorithms for dynamical systems

Abstract
PDF

Thr. Feb. 9, 2012 @12:00 pm

ACES
2.402

Jaideep Vaidya
Rutgers University

The Role Mining Problem - A formal perspective

Abstract

Tue. Nov. 15, 2011 @4:00 pm

ENS 637

Deepak K. Agarwal
Yahoo! Research

Targeting Users in Display Advertising through Factor Models

Abstract
Slides
Video

Thr. Nov. 10, 2011 @4:00 pm

ENS 637

Edo Airoldi
Harvard University

Stochastic blockmodels and other models of biological and information networks ¹

Abstract
Slides
Video

Fri. Nov. 4, 2011 @2:00 pm

WCH 1.108, 1.110

Peter Hoff
University of Washington

Separable Models for Multiway Array Data ¹

Abstract
Slides
Video

Fri. Oct. 28, 2011 @11:00 am

ACES
2.302 (Avaya)

Jeff Schneider
Carnegie Mellon University

Learning Dynamic Models with Non-sequenced Data

Abstract
Slides (ppt)
Video

Fri. Oct. 14, 2011 @2:00 pm

WCH 1.108, 1.110

Erik Sudderth
Brown University

Improving the Flexibility and Reliability of Nonparametric Topic Models ¹

Abstract

Mon. Sept. 19, 2011 @3:00 pm

ACES
2.302 (Avaya)

Alex Smola
Yahoo! Research

Scaling Machine Learning to the Internet

Abstract
Keynote
Slides (pdf)

¹ Co-sponsored by the Division of Statistics and Scientific Computation (SSC).

Past speakers:

Date & Time

Location

Speaker

Title

Slides/Videos

Thr. Mar. 24, 2011 @11:00 am

ENS
115

John Langford
Yahoo! Labs

Learning with Exploration

Abstract
Slides

Fri. Mar. 11, 2011 @11:00 am

ACES
2.302 (Avaya)

David Pennock
Yahoo! Research

Crowdsourcing Predictions

Abstract
Slides

Tue. Feb. 15, 2011 @11:00 am

ACES
2.302 (Avaya)

Amir Atiya
Cairo University

Gaussian Processes For Classification

Abstract
Slides

Thr. Jan. 27, 2011 @2:00 pm

ACES
2.402

Nan Zhang
George Washington University

Data Exploration and Privacy Preservation Over Hidden Web Databases

Abstract

Fri. Dec. 03, 2010 @11:00am

ACES
6.304

Rajeev Rastogi
Yahoo! Labs Bengalore

Building Knowledge Bases from the Web

Abstract

Mon. Nov. 22, 2010 @11:00am

ACES
2.302

Bee-Chung Chen
Yahoo! Research

Latent Factor Models for Web Recommender Systems

Abstract
Videos
Slides

Fri. Nov. 12, 2010 @11:30am

ACES
2.302

Nanda Kambhatla
IBM Research - India

Building Watson - A Brief Overview of DeepQA and the Jeopardy! Challenge

Abstract

Thr. Nov. 11, 2010 @2:00pm

ACES
2.402

Jeiping Ye
Arizona State University

Large-Scale Structured Sparse Learning

Abstract
Slides

Wed. Jun. 26, 2010 @2:30pm

ACES
2.402

Joachim M Buhmann
ETH Zurich

Visual INFORMATION: How to find it in images?

Abstract

Thu. Apr. 22, 2010 @11am

ACES
3.408

Shi Zhong
ClickForensics

Click Fraud and Traffic Quality Modeling for Online Advertising

Abstract

Mon. Mar. 15, 2010 @3:00pm

ENS
637

Ryan Adams
University of Toronto

Dependent Probabilistic Matrix Factorization

Abstract

Wed. Jan. 27, 2010 @11:00am

ACES
2.302

Winter Mason
Yahoo! Research

Inferring Social Networks From Interpersonal Communication

Abstract

Wed. Sep. 23, 2009 @11:00am

ACES
2.302

Charles Elkan
UCSD

Accounting for burstiness of words in text mining

Abstract

Wed. Sep. 16, 2009 @11:00am

ACES
2.302

Deepak Agarwal
Yahoo! Labs

Statistical Challenges in Recommender System for Web Applications

Abstract
Videos

Wed. Apr 22, 2009 @11:00am

ACES
2.302

Raghu Ramakrishnan
Yahoo!

Semantics on the Web: How do we get there?

Abstract

Tue, Apr 7, 2009 @10:00am

ENS
637

George Karypis
University of Minnesota

Advancing Chemical Genetics: Mining the Target-Ligand Activity Matrix

Abstract

Wed, Mar 19, 2008 @ 1:30pm

ACES
2.402

Joseph Sirosh
Amazon.com

How Analytics Is Revolutionizing E-Commerce

Abstract

Thurs, Apr 05, 2007 @ 1:30pm

ACES
2.402

Katya Scheinberg
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Active set methods for large-scale support vector machines

Abstract

Fri, Mar 30, 2007 @ 2:00pm

ACES
2.402

Renata Vieira
Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS)

Have I mentioned it?

Abstract

Wed, Mar 14, 2007 @ 11:00am

ACES
6.304

Rong Jin
Michigan State University

Generalized Maximum Margin Clustering and Unsupervised Kernel

Abstract

Wed, May 3, 2006 @ 4:00pm

ACES
2.302

Andrew Tomkins
Yahoo! Research

Routing and growth models for online social networks

Abstract
Slides

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