What's New

New paper on arxiv: "MAD-Bayes: MAP-based Asymptotic Derivations from Bayes," co-authored with Tamara Broderick and Michael Jordan. See here.

Congratulations to Ke Jiang for his accepted NIPS 2012 paper "Small-Variance Asymptotics for Exponential Family Dirichlet Process Mixture Models" (co-authored with me and Michael Jordan)!

I will serve as an area chair for ICML 2013 and local arrangements chair for CVPR 2014.

"Discovering Latent Domains for Multisource Domain Adaptation" (co-authored with Judy Hoffman, Kate Saenko, and Trevor Darrell) was accepted to ECCV 2012 in Florence, Italy.

"Revisiting k-means: New Algorithms via Bayesian Nonparametrics" (co-authored with Michael Jordan) was accepted to ICML 2012 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Introduction

I am an assistant professor in the CSE department at Ohio State University.

Previously, I spent three years as a postdoc at UC Berkeley EECS (Computer Science Division), and was also affiliated with ICSI, where I had the good fortune to work with Trevor Darrell, Stuart Russell, Michael Jordan, and Peter Bartlett. Broadly speaking, I am interested in all aspects of machine learning, with an emphasis on applications to computer vision. Most of my research focuses on making it easier to analyze large-scale data. A major focus is on large-scale optimization for core problems in machine learning such as metric learning, content-based search, clustering, and online learning. I am also interested in large-scale graphical models, Bayesian inference, and Bayesian nonparametrics.

I finished my Ph.D. in computer science in November, 2008, supervised by Inderjit Dhillon in the University of Texas at Austin computer science department. I did my undergrad in computer science and mathematics at Cornell University. I have also worked with John Platt and Arun Surendran at Microsoft Research on large-scale optimization, and as an undergraduate, I worked with John Hopcroft on tracking topics in networked data over time. During the Fall 2007 semester, I was a research fellow at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at U.C.L.A.

Curriculum Vitae [pdf]

Publications by Type

Publications Chronologically

Google scholar profile

Teaching

Spring, 2013. Machine Learning

Fall, 2012. Probabilistic Graphical Models

Spring, 2012. Bayesian Modeling and Inference

Ph.D. Students

Ke Jiang

Anirban Roychowdhury

Jiaxin Zhang

Research Details

Click here to read more about some of my research.

Contact Info

Office: 599 Dreese Labs

Email: kulis [at] cse [dot] ohio-state [dot] edu