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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, 2009-2010

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 1pm in the TTIC Conference Room.

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For additional questions, contact Raquel Urtasun (rurtasun@ttic.edu)

Title:

On Sparse Rectangular Representations of Matrix Data
Date: Oct. 5, 2009
Speaker: Konstantin Makarychev, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Host: Yury Makarychev (yury@ttic.edu)

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A simpler approach to matrix completion
Date: Oct. 26, 2009
Speaker: Ben Recht
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)

Title:

A Quasi-Newton Approach to Nonsmooth Convex Optimization
Date: Nov. 2, 2009
Speaker: S V N Vishwanathan, Purdue
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)

Title:

Reconstructing Deformable Surfaces: A Convex Formulation
Date: Nov. 9, 2009
Speaker: Mathieu Salzmann, ICSI Berkeley
Host: Raquel Urtasun (rurtasun@ttic.edu)

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Statistical Models in Computer Vision
Date: Nov. 16, 2009
Speaker: Yali Amit, University of Chicago
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)

Title:

Learning with Annotation Noise
Date: Nov. 23, 2009
Speaker: Beata Beigman Klebanov, Northwestern University
Host: Joseph Keshet (jkeshet@ttic.edu)

Title:

Learning from Labeled and Unlabeled Data, Global vs. Multiscale Approaches
Date: Nov. 30, 2009
Speaker: Boaz Nadler, Weizmann Institute
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)

Title:

Strategic Network Formation and Group Formation
Date: Dec. 14, 2009
Speaker: Elliot Anshelevich, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Host: Julia Chuzhoy (cjulia@ttic.edu)

Title:

Semi-Supervised Learning with Measure Propagation
Date: Jan. 4, 2010
Speaker: Amar Subramanya, Google
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)

Title:

Bounding Rationality by Computational Complexity
Date: Jan. 11, 2010
Speaker: Lance Fortnow, Northwestern University
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)

Title:

Unsupervised Learning of Deep Probabilistic Models
Date: Jan. 19, 2010 1:00 pm (NOTE UNUSUAL TIME)
Speaker: Ruslan Salakhutdinov, MIT
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)

Title:

Unsupervised Learning of Natural Language Morphology
Date: Jan. 25, 2010
Speaker: John Goldsmith, University of Chicago
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)

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TTIC Colloquium: Martin Wainwright
Date: Feb. 1, 2010
Speaker: Martin Wainwright, U. C. Berkeley
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)

Title:

Optimal Control of Hybrid Systems with Applications to Robotics
Date: Feb. 8, 2010
Speaker: Milos Zefran, UIC
Host: Nathan Ratliff (ndr@ttic.edu)

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TTIC Colloquim: Sayan Mukherjee
Date: Mar. 8, 2010
Speaker: Sayan Mukherjee, Duke
Host: Andreas Argyriou (argyriou@ttic.edu)

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TTIC Colloquium: Ping Li
Date: May 17, 2010
Speaker: Ping Li, Cornell
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)