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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