SMiLe Student Open House - overview
Statistical Machine Learning and its Applications (SMiLe): Student Open House at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Organizers: Alina Beygelzimer (AI PIC), Vittorio Castelli (NLP PIC), Yan Liu (KDD PIC), Peder Olsen (UIT PIC), and Claudia Perlich (KDD PIC)
The open house will host exceptional senior graduate students working on machine learning and data mining, and their applications to natural language processing, intelligent user interfaces and other related areas. The two-day event will be held on October 8th and 9th, 2009 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. The students will get a chance to learn more about opportunities at IBM Research, as well as to tour the Eero Saarinen-designed building that houses the headquarters for the IBM Research Division. The event is by invitation only. Each invited student is expected to give a 20 minute presentation.
Directions to the Yorktown Heights building.
SMiLe's facebook page.
Agenda
The Best Presentation Award went to Benjamin Snyder (MIT) for his talk on unsupervised multilingual learning.
Student presentations: titles and abstracts
Participants:
- Nate Chambers (Stanford)
- Tae Yano (CMU)
- Markus Dreyer (JHU)
- Natasha Singh Miller (MIT)
- Pallika Kanani (UMass)
- Annie Louis (Upenn)
- Benjamin Snyder (MIT)
- Joseph Gonzalez (CMU)
- Stephane Ross (CMU)
- Piotr Mirowski (NYU)
- Ilya Sutskever (Toronto)
- Daniel Hsu (UCSD)
- Bert Huang (Columbia)
- Fadi Biadsy (Columbia)
- Zhongqiang Huang (UMD)
- Ziad Al Bawab (CMU)
- Anoop Deoras (JHU)
- Ariya Rastrow (JHU)
- Eugene Weinstein (NYU)
- Han Liu (CMU)
- Percy Liang (Berkeley)
- Chun-Nam Yu (Cornell)
- Chong Wang (Princeton)
- David L. Chen (UTexas)
- Paramveer S. Dhillon (UPenn)
- Michael Hay (UMass)
- Xiaohan Zhang (NYU)
- Jacob Bien (Stanford)