Yahoo! UT Austin Data Mining Seminar Series (Past Speakers)

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Past Speakers:

Date & Time

Location

Speaker

Title

Slides/Papers

Fri, Feb 10, 2006 @ 11:00am

ACES 6.304

Lise Getoor
University of Maryland - College Park

Link Mining

Abstract

Tues, May 31, 2005 @ 11:00am

ACES 2.302

Mehran Sahami
Google Inc.

Using Machine Learning to Improve Information Finding on the Web

Abstract

Fri, Nov 19, 2004 @ 3:00pm

ACES 2.302

Thomas G. Dietterich
Oregon State University

Three Challenges for Machine Learning Research

Abstract

Thurs, Nov 11, 2004 @ 4:00pm

CBA 3.202

Foster Provost
New York University

Classification and Learning with Networked Data: some observations and results

Abstract

Thurs, Sept 30, 2004 @ 2:00pm

ACES 2.302

Michael J. Pazzani
Division Director, Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation

Machine Learning for Personalized Wireless Portals

Abstract

Fri, Aug 20, 2004 @ 11am

ACES 2.302

Soumen Chakrabarti
Indian Institute of Technology - Boombay

Is question answering an acquired skill?

Abstract

Fri, Apr 16, 2004 @ 11am

ACES 6.304

Arindam Banerjee
University of Texas at Austin

Bregman Clustering and Co-clustering

Abstract

Fri, Mar 26, 2004 @ 11am

ACES 6.304

Inderjit S. Dhillon
University of Texas at Austin

Information-Theoretic Clustering, Co-clustering and Matrix Approximations

Abstract
Slides

Fri, Mar 12, 2004 @ 11am

ACES 6.304

Daniel Boley
University of Minnesota

Training Support Vector Machines via Adaptive Clustering

Abstract

Fri, Oct 24, 2003 @ 11am

ACES 2.302

Jiawei Han
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

Mining Dynamics of Data Streams in Multidimensional Space

Abstract

Tues, Aug 19, 2003 @ 10am

ACES 2.302

David Page, Jr.
University of Wisconsin - Medison

Machine Learning in Cancer Genetics

Abstract

Fri, Oct 25, 2002 @ 11am

ACES 6.304

Pedro Domingos
University of Washington

Learning From Networks of Examples

Abstract

Fri, Feb 22, 2002 @ 11am

ACES 2.302

Andrew McCallum
WhizBang Lab. and Canegie Mellon University

Information Extraction with Finite State Models

Abstract

Fri. Nov 2, 2001 @ 11am

ACES 6.304

Oren Etzioni
University of Washington - Seattle

Adaptive Web Sites

Abstract

Fri. Oct 26, 2001 @ 10:30am

ACES 2.402

Foster Provost
New York University

Reviving the Learning Curve: A critical study of machine learning performance

Abstract

Fri. Oct 5,   2001 @ 11am

ACES 2.302

Sridhar Rajagopalan
IBM Almaden Research Center

Three applications of data mining principles

Abstract

Fri, Sept 21, 2001 @ 11am

ACES 2.302

Joseph Sirosh
HNC Software Inc.

Unit Vector Representations of Unstructured Information

Abstract

Fri, Apr 27, 2001 @ 11am

ACES 2.302

Daniel Boley
University of Minnesota

A Scalable Hierarchical Algorithm for Unsupervised Clustering

Abstract

Fri, Apr 20, 2001 @ 11am

ACES 2.302

David Scott
Rice University

Nonparametric Clustering for Data Mining

Abstract

Fri, Apr 13, 2001 @ 11am

ACES 2.302

Ed George
University of Texas - Austin

Bayesian Treed Modeling

Abstract

Fri, Mar 30, 2001 @ 11am

ACES 2.302

Gautam Das
Microsoft Research

A Robust, Optimization-Based Approach for Approximate Answering of Aggregate Queries

Abstract

Fri, Mar 23, 2001 @ 11am

ACES 2.302

Joydeep Ghosh
University of Texas - Austin

Graphical Techniques for Efficient and Balanced Clustering of Very High-Dimensional Data

Abstract
Slides

Fri, Feb 09, 2001 @ 11am

ACES 2.302

Tom Mitchell
Carnegie Mellon University
and WhizBang! Labs

Machine Learning and Extracting Information from the Web

Abstract

Fri, Nov 17, 2000 @ 11am

ACES 2.302

Prabhakar Raghavan
Verity and Stanford University

Networks and Sub-Networks in the World-Wide Web
Meeting Signup Schedule

Abstract

Fri, Nov 10, 2000 @ 11am

ACES 2.302

Jerry Friedman
Stanford University

Predictive Data Mining with Multiple Additive Regression Trees

Abstract

Thurs, Nov 9, 2000 @ 11am

ACES 2.302

Nick Street
University of Iowa

Feature Selection in Unsupervised Learning via Multi-Objective Evolutionary Search

Abstract

Fri, Oct 27, 2000 @ 11am

ACES 2.302

Raymond Mooney
University of Texas - Austin

Text Mining with Information Extraction

Abstract

Fri, Oct 13, 2000 @ 11am

ACES 2.302

Raghu Ramakrishnan
University of Wisconsin - Madison

Exploratory Analysis of Large Datasets

Abstract

Fri, Sept 29, 2000 @ 11am

ACES 2.302

Jaideep Srivastava
University of Minnesota and Yodlee.com

Web Mining: A Challenging Frontier for Data Mining

Abstract
Slides

Mon, Sept 25, 2000 @ 1pm

ACES 2.302

Peter Haas
IBM Almaden Research Center

Techniques for Online Exploration of Large Object-Relational Databases

Abstract

Fri, Aug 4,   2000 @ 3pm

Taylor Hall 3.128

Jude Shavlik
University of Wisconsin - Madison

Using Diverse Evidence Sources to Uncover Coordinately Controlled Genes via Machine Learning and Dynamic Programming

Abstract

Thurs, Aug 3, 2000 @ 3pm

Taylor Hall 3.128

Haym Hirsh
Rutgers University

Integrating Multiple Sources of Information in Text Classification

Abstract

Wed, Apr 5, 2000 @ 4pm

Taylor Hall 2.106

Dharmendra S. Modha
IBM Almaden Research Center

Clustering Hypertext with Applications to Web Searching

Abstract