{"65791":{"#nid":"65791","#data":{"type":"event","title":"CSE Seminar: Alexandar Smola","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlexander Smola\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYahoo! Research, Santa Clara\u003Cbr \/\u003EAustralian National University, Canberra\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGraphical Models for the Internet\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk I will present algorithms for performing large scale inference using Latent Dirichlet Allocation and a novel Cluster-Topic model to estimate user preferences and to group stories into coherent, topically consistent storylines. I will discuss both the statistical modeling challenges involved and the very large scale implementation of such models which allows us to perform estimation on over 50 million users on a Hadoop cluster.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI studied \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.physik.tu-muenchen.de\/\u0022\u003Ephysics\u003C\/a\u003E in \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.muenchen.de\/\u0022\u003EMunich\u003C\/a\u003E at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.tu-muenchen.de\/\u0022\u003EUniversity of Technology\u003C\/a\u003E, Munich, at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.unipv.it\/\u0022\u003EUniversita degli Studi di Pavia\u003C\/a\u003E and at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.research.att.com\/\u0022\u003EAT\u0026amp;T Research\u003C\/a\u003E in Holmdel. During this time I was at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.maximilianeum.de\/\u0022\u003EMaximilianeum\u003C\/a\u003E M\u00fcnchen and the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipvaimed9.unipv.it\/students\/ghislieri\/ghislieri.html\u0022\u003ECollegio Ghislieri\u003C\/a\u003E in Pavia. In 1996 I received the Master degree at the University of Technology, Munich and in 1998 the Doctoral Degree in \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cs.tu-berlin.de\/\u0022\u003Ecomputer science\u003C\/a\u003E at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.tu-berlin.de\/\u0022\u003EUniversity of Technology Berlin\u003C\/a\u003E. Until 1999 I was a researcher at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ida.first.gmd.de\/\u0022\u003EIDA Group\u003C\/a\u003E of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gmd.de\/\u0022\u003EGMD\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.first.gmd.de\/\u0022\u003EInstitute for Software Engineering and Computer Architecture\u003C\/a\u003E in Berlin (now part of the Fraunhofer Geselschaft). After that, I worked as a Researcher and Group Leader at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rsise.anu.edu.au\/\u0022\u003EResearch School for Information Sciences and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.anu.edu.au\/\u0022\u003EAustralian National University\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026gt;From 2004 onwards I worked as a Senior Principal Researcher and Program Leader at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sml.nicta.com.au\/\u0022\u003EStatistical Machine Learning Program\u003C\/a\u003E at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nicta.com.au\/\u0022\u003ENICTA\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo receive future announcements, please sign up to the cse-seminar email list:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mailman.cc.gatech.edu\/mailman\/listinfo\/cse-seminar\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/mailman.cc.gatech.edu\/mailman\/listinfo\/cse-seminar\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Graphical Models for the Internet"}],"uid":"27439","created_gmt":"2011-04-27 07:58:10","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:54:54","author":"Lometa Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2011-04-29T15:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2011-04-29T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2011-04-29T16:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2011-04-29 19:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2011-04-29 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2011-04-29 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"37041","name":"Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"7041","name":"computational science \u0026 engineering"},{"id":"4305","name":"cse"},{"id":"3497","name":"cse seminar"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlexander Gray\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:agray@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eagray@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}