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Jian Peng received Microsoft Fellowship

TTIC congratulates Jian Peng, a TTIC third-year Ph.D. student who was awarded the prestigious Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship this month (February 2010). The Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship is a two-year fellowship program for outstanding Ph.D. students, and supports men and women in their third and fourth years of Ph.D. graduate studies.

The fellowship award will cover 100 percent of recipient’s tuition and fees for two academic years (2010 and 2011), provide a stipend to cover living expenses while in school, a travel allowance for recipients to attend professional conferences or seminars, and offers recipients the opportunity to complete one salaried internship over the duration of the year following the award.

Jian works with TTIC’s professor Jinbo Xu on mathematical modellings in computational biology. His other research interests include machine learning and algorithms. For more information about Jian, check out his webpage.

Dr. Greg Shakhnarovich hosted a regional computer vision meeting, the 3rd Illinois Vision Workshop, on Tuesday, December 1. About fifty people from the Midwest and farther away participated. Among the institutions and companies represented, in addition to TTIC, were the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, the University of Illinois Chicago, Northwestern, the University of Michigan, University of Missouri, UC Berkeley, Microsoft Research, Carnegie Mellon, Eastman Kodak, and Cornell.

Karen Livescu is the recipient of a grant funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), on which she is the Principal Investigator (PI). The grant is in collaboration with co-PIs Jeff Bilmes (University of Washington) and Eric Fosler-Lussier (Ohio State University). The award covers three years and focuses on statistical models of speech based on articulatory features (such as locations of the tongue, lips, and so on).

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TTIC Colloquium Schedule, 2008-2009

The TTIC Colloquium is a forum for talks by invited speakers on work of current relevance and broad interest to the computer science community.

The colloquium is held Mondays at 2pm in the TTIC Conference Room.

To receive announcements about the colloquium, please subscribe to the mailing list.

For additional questions, contact Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)

Title:

RTComposer: A Framework for Real-Time Components with Scheduling Interfaces
Date: Sep. 29, 2008
Speaker: Gera Weiss, University of Pennsylvania
Host: Ronen Basri (ronen.basri@tti-c.org)

Title:

Axiomatic view of clustering - overcoming Kleinberg's impossibility result
Date: Oct. 6, 2008
Speaker: Shai Ben-David, University of Waterloo
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)

Title:

A Geometric Perspective on Learning Theory and Algorithms
Date: Oct. 13, 2008
Speaker: Partha Niyogi, University of Chicago
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)

Title:

Homology Flows
Date: Oct. 20, 2008
Speaker: Jeff Erickson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Benoît Hudsn (bhudson@tti-c.org)

Title:

There Aren't Any Real Belief-Desire Intention Theories Out There ... But Mine!! (And really, I'm not too sure about mine.)
Date: Oct. 27, 2008
Speaker: David Israel, SRI International
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)

Title:

Looking at People
Date: Nov. 3, 2008
Speaker: David Forsyth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Greg Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)

Title:

Random Features: Replacing Optimization with Randomization in Learning
Date: Nov. 10, 2008
Speaker: Ali Rahimi, Intel
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)

Title:

Community Structure in Large Social and Information Networks
Date: Nov. 24, 2008
Speaker: Michael Mahoney, Stanford University
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)

Title:

Complexity, Learnability, and Constraint-Based Grammars
Date: Dec. 15, 2008
Speaker: Jason Riggle, University of Chicago
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)

Title:

Computational Awareness
Date: Jan. 12, 2009
Speaker: Lance Fortnow, Northwestern U.
Host: Ronen Basri (ronen.basri@tti-c.org)

Title:

Large-scale Bayesian regression: A novel prior distribution, with applications to genome wide association studies.
Date: Feb. 2, 2009
Speaker: Matthew Stephens, U. Chicago
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)

Title:

Tensors: Theory and Applications
Date: Mar. 2, 2009
Speaker: Shmuel Friedland, UIC
Host: Shai Shalev-Shwartz (shai@tti-c.org)

Title:

Vox Populi: On Learning from Crowds
Date: Mar. 9, 2009
Speaker: Ohad Shamir
Host: Shai Shalev-Shwartz (shai@tti-c.org)

Title:

Perception as Bayesian inference about causes
Date: July 20, 2009
Speaker: Konrad Koerding, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University
Host: Greg Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)

Title:

An effective belief-propagation algorithm for constrained linear least-squares problems.
Date: Aug 3, 2009
Speaker: Jacob Goldberger, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)

Title:

The Dynamics of Equilibria
Date: Aug 24, 2009 at 4:00pm (Note: This talk is later than most.)
Speaker: Maria Florina (Nina) Balcan, MSR New England and Georgia Tech
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)

Title:

Constrained Conditional Models: Learning and Inference in Natural Language Understanding
Date: Sept 21, 2009
Speaker: Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)