UT Austin Data Mining Seminar Series

Since spring 2012, data mining and machine learning speakers have been brought in via the FAI, WNCG, or SSC seminar series.
This seminar series was supported in part by Yahoo! and by IDEAL
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Previous speakers:

Thr. Feb. 23, 2012 @2:00 pm ACES
2.402 		Geoff Gordon
Carnegie Mellon University		 Spectral learning algorithms for dynamical systems Abstract
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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
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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
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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
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Fri. Oct. 28, 2011 @11:00 am ACES
2.302 (Avaya) 		Jeff Schneider
Carnegie Mellon University		 Learning Dynamic Models with Non-sequenced Data Abstract
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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
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Thr. Mar. 24, 2011 @11:00 am ENS
115 		John Langford
Yahoo! Labs		 Learning with Exploration Abstract
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Fri. Mar. 11, 2011 @11:00 am ACES
2.302 (Avaya)		 David Pennock
Yahoo! Research		 Crowdsourcing Predictions Abstract
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Tue. Feb. 15, 2011 @11:00 am ACES
2.302 (Avaya)		 Amir Atiya
Cairo University		 Gaussian Processes For Classification Abstract
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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
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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
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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
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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
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