From awd at cs.cmu.edu Thu Jan 19 12:41:30 2012 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:41:30 -0500 Subject: [Research] upcoming changes Message-ID: <4F1855CA.3010908@cs.cmu.edu> Dear Autonians, I would like to inform you of the upcoming departure of one of the key members of our Team. Mike Baysek and his wife made a decision to relocate to warmer climates of Arizona. Mike, dating back to his day one in the Lab, has been constantly earning a strong reputation of a remarkably competent sysadmin, astute data analyst, diligent customer relationship manager, reliable and always positive teammate, and a close friend to many a Lab members, the undersigned included. He will be missed immensely, no doubt. Mike is not leaving immediately. We will have until Thursday February 16th to enjoy his company and crack a few jokes together. Mike will be driving the transition of the sysadmin powers to Jarod, who has kindly agreed to take the challenge (which, I hear, may include having to wear black jeans and black t-shirt to work, growing long hair, shaving only from time to time, and pouring loads of tabasco sauce on every bite of food). Please join me in welcoming Jarod to his new, very important role on our Team. Cheers, Artur From komarek.paul at gmail.com Thu Jan 19 14:45:32 2012 From: komarek.paul at gmail.com (Paul Komarek) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:45:32 -0800 Subject: [Research] upcoming changes In-Reply-To: <4F1855CA.3010908@cs.cmu.edu> References: <4F1855CA.3010908@cs.cmu.edu> Message-ID: Good luck, Jarrod! and Mike, what a ride. Thanks for taking care of the lab, and growing it, over all these years. You have made the lab systems so much more than the pile we handed to you so long ago. On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Artur Dubrawski wrote: > Dear Autonians, > > I would like to inform you of the upcoming departure of one > of the key members of our Team. Mike Baysek and his wife > made a decision to relocate to warmer climates of Arizona. > > Mike, dating back to his day one in the Lab, has been > constantly earning a strong reputation of a remarkably > competent sysadmin, astute data analyst, diligent customer > relationship manager, reliable and always positive teammate, > and a close friend to many a Lab members, the undersigned > included. He will be missed immensely, no doubt. > > Mike is not leaving immediately. We will have until Thursday > February 16th to enjoy his company and crack a few jokes > together. Mike will be driving the transition of the sysadmin > powers to Jarod, who has kindly agreed to take the challenge > (which, I hear, may include having to wear black jeans and > black t-shirt to work, growing long hair, shaving only from > time to time, and pouring loads of tabasco sauce on every > bite of food). Please join me in welcoming Jarod to his new, > very important role on our Team. > > Cheers, > Artur > _______________________________________________ > Research mailing list > Research at autonlab.org > https://www.autonlab.org/mailman/listinfo/research From lxiong at cs.cmu.edu Fri Jan 20 00:01:58 2012 From: lxiong at cs.cmu.edu (Liang Xiong) Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:01:58 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Research] upcoming changes In-Reply-To: <4F1855CA.3010908@cs.cmu.edu> References: <4F1855CA.3010908@cs.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <17296.24.3.189.62.1327035718.squirrel@webmail.cs.cmu.edu> Mike, sorry to see that you are leaving... Thanks for everything you did for us (especially the chicken you grilled, yum!), and all the best in Arizona! Thank you Jarod for taking this extraordinary responsibility! Liang On Thu, January 19, 2012 12:41 pm, Artur Dubrawski wrote: > Dear Autonians, > > > I would like to inform you of the upcoming departure of one > of the key members of our Team. Mike Baysek and his wife made a decision to > relocate to warmer climates of Arizona. > > Mike, dating back to his day one in the Lab, has been > constantly earning a strong reputation of a remarkably competent sysadmin, > astute data analyst, diligent customer relationship manager, reliable and > always positive teammate, and a close friend to many a Lab members, the > undersigned included. He will be missed immensely, no doubt. > > Mike is not leaving immediately. We will have until Thursday > February 16th to enjoy his company and crack a few jokes > together. Mike will be driving the transition of the sysadmin powers to > Jarod, who has kindly agreed to take the challenge > (which, I hear, may include having to wear black jeans and > black t-shirt to work, growing long hair, shaving only from time to time, > and pouring loads of tabasco sauce on every bite of food). Please join me > in welcoming Jarod to his new, very important role on our Team. > > Cheers, > Artur > _______________________________________________ > Research mailing list > Research at autonlab.org > https://www.autonlab.org/mailman/listinfo/research > > From schneide at cs.cmu.edu Fri Jan 27 17:03:28 2012 From: schneide at cs.cmu.edu (Jeff Schneider) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:03:28 -0500 Subject: [Research] Come to TK's thesis proposal Monday 9am GHC 4405 In-Reply-To: <4F22D066.2070109@cs.cmu.edu> References: <4F22D066.2070109@cs.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <4F231F30.7050805@cs.cmu.edu> Hi Everyone, The next Auton Lab thesis proposal will be on Monday at 9am. If you're available, please come and see TK present! Jeff. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Reminder - Thesis Proposal - 1/30/12 - Exploiting Non-sequence Data in Dynamic Model Learning Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:27:18 -0500 From: Diane Stidle To: ml-seminar at cs.cmu.edu, Shourabh Rawat , ashojaie at u.washington.edu Thesis Proposal... Date: 1/30/12 Time: 9:00am Place: 4405 GHC Speaker: Tzu-Kuo (TK) Huang Title: Exploiting Non-sequence Data in Dynamic Model Learning Abstract: Virtually all methods of learning dynamic models from data start from the same basic assumption: that the learning algorithm will be provided with a single or multiple sequences of data generated from the dynamic model. However, in quite a few modern time series modeling tasks, the collection of reliable time series turns out to be a major challenge, either due to the slow progression of the dynamic process of interest, or inaccessibility of repetitive measurements of the same dynamic process over time. In those situations, we observe that it is often easier to collect a large amount of non-sequence samples, or snapshots of the dynamic process of interest. Thesis Committee: Jeff Schneider (Chair) Ziv Bar-Joseph Geoff Gordon Ali Shojaie (University of Washington) Link to draft document: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tzukuoh/tk_proposal_draft.pdf -- ******************************************************************* Diane Stidle Business & Graduate Programs Manager Machine Learning Department School of Computer Science 8203 Gates Hillman Complex Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891 Phone: 412-268-1299 Fax: 412-268-3431 Email: diane at cs.cmu.edu URL:http://www.ml.cmu.edu