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Charalampos (Babis) E. Tsourakakis3rd Year Graduate Student
Open House February 26th , 2010
Carnegie Mellon University is a historical university with living history.
Alen Newell
Herbert SimonManuel Blum Avrim Blum
Stephen Fienberg
John Lafferty
Alan Frieze Larry Wasserman
Carlos Guestrin
Admission highly
competitive!
Tom Mitchell, Head of MLD
International Student (Hellene, ECE NTUA)
2007-2009 worked with Christos Faloutsos on Data Mining (Tensors, Graphs and Large Scale Data Mining using Hadoop)
Switched at the end of the second year.
Now,Gary Miller Russell Schwartz
Algorithm Design (TCS)Manifold Learning (ML)
Breast Cancer Evolution (App)
e.g., Miller Primality Teste.g., decoding human genome
Immigration course:
faculty gives talks,
you choose advisor
0 1 2 3 4 5 … timeCoursework: 5 core courses: • Intermediate statistics, ML• Stat ML, Algorithms, Data mining +3 electives (1 from statistics)
TA for 2 classes
Change/add
advisor(if you want)
Start doing research!
(publish 1st paper)
Propose
Conduct research
Finish!
Enjoy dept. tea gathering and TGs
Data analysis project,
speaking skills
( get MS)Summer
internships
Very critical choice for your career. Great faculty to choose from. Make a good choice by:
choosing a project that excites you making sure that you and your advisor
have the same research “mentality” (Ask yourself, do you like more applications, theory, a mixture of them and what proportion from each)
reading papers of your potential advisors
Year 1: Intermediate statistics Intro machine learning Stat. machine learning Algorithms
Year 2: Data mining Advanced Discrete Math:
Additive Number Theory Advanced Discrete Math:
Mixing times and Markov Chains
Computational Methods for Biological Modeling and Simulation
Many ML classes Graduate ML Statistical ML Graphical models Convex optimization Graduate AI Learning theory Bayesian methods Comp bio + learning Computational
Complexity Randomized algorithms Approximation
algorithms Lots of area-specific
machine learning (text, bio, brain, …)(Some of my
electives)
MLD Seminars: MLD/Google seminar Intelligence seminar Machine learning lunch
▪ organized by studentsMany other seminars:
Theory, LTI, Robotics,…MLD weekly tea gatheringTGs (Thank Goodness It’s Friday)
A city which has two main advantages which are typically inversely proportional: Many things to do around, good restaurants,
nice coffee shops, bars, pubs, dancing places etc.
Inexpensive. Easy to travel to other beautiful cities
which are near, e.g., Philadelphia, New York City, Toronto.
You can feel all four seasonswhile in Pittsburgh
Different Health Plans Basic (<~1K for a year) Enhanced +Dental +Vision
CMU Health Services UPMC My personal experience so far has
been more than good.
Most of the students live in Squirrel Hill, Shadyside, Oakland.
Other neighborhoods: Bloomfield, Point Breeze, Regent Square.
If you do not own a car, make sure that you pick a place with many buses coming by from there (e.g., Squirrel Hill, Shadyside)
Great places to live for really good prices.
An excellent environment for conducting research, having pleasant breaks (great coffee on the 3rd floor), interesting research discussions on a whiteboard, Tea Parties.
Swimming
Tennis
BikingCanoeing
CavingClimbingHiking
Kayaking
Scuba Diving Skydiving
Ski (Seven Springs Resort) with
student prices ~15$
Chess Club
Dancing
GymVolleyball, Basketball
Badminton
Publications Travelling. I have visited Belgium, France, Greece,
Italy, Stanford, New York. Meeting Scientists from all over the
world Attend highly interesting talks (some of
them). Communicate your ideas, get people to
learn about your research. See and explore new places.
When you set out on your journey to Ithaca,
pray that the road is long,full of adventure, full of knowledge….…Always keep Ithaca in your mind.To arrive there is your ultimate goal.But do not hurry the voyage at all…
Welcome to CMU and Congratulations again!
Joseph Bradley for sharing previous year’s slides.
Jernej Barbic http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~jbarbic/cmu-start.html
Diane Stidle
“Mother” of MLD
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