Sam Roweis
Sam Roweis
homepage:http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~roweis/
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Description

Sam Roweis April 27, 1972 - January 12, 2010 was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. His research interests were in machine learning, data mining, and statistical signal processing. Roweis did his undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto in the Engineering Science program and earned his doctoral degree in 1999 from the California Institute of Technology working with John Hopfield.

He did a postdoc with Geoff Hinton and Zoubin Ghahramani at the Gatsby Unit in London, and was a visiting faculty member at MIT in 2005. He also worked at several industrial research labs including Google, Bell Labs, Whizbang! Labs and Microsoft.
He was the holder of a Canada Research Chair in Statistical Machine Learning, a Sloan Research Fellowship, the winner of a Premier's Research Excellence Award, and a Scholar of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.


Lectures:

tutorial
Machine Learning, Probability and Graphical Models
as author at  Machine Learning Summer School 2006 - Taipei,
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  lecture
Probabilistic Graphical Models
as author at  Machine Learning Summer School 2005 - Canberra,
15033 views
lecture
Neighbourhood Components Analysis
as author at  Machine Learning Summer School 2006 - Taipei,
2601 views
  invited talk
Neighbourhood Components Analysis and Metric Learning
as author at  Learning to Compare Examples 2006 - Whistler,
1539 views