I completed a MSc in computer science at UBC in June 2007, after 18 months of entertaining courses and fruitful research. My work with my supervisor, Prof. Kevin Murphy, focused on Bayesian network structure learning and its applications to the exciting area of drug/disease target discovery in systems biology.

I am no longer maintaining this site, though I can still be found on the web at www.eatdanjam.com. Alternatively, assuming it remains active, I will be checking the email address listed above.

School:

• Current work on Bayesian network structure learning (began Sept '06, "ended" July '07)
• See my modest list of publications
• A list of papers/books I've read recently (not updated so recently)
• My schedule [Spring2007, Winter2006, Spring2006, Winter2005, LCI West Plant Watering].
• Course projects [Statistical Computing, Animation, Nonlinear optimization, Machine learning]

Tutorials, Code, Data:

• How to do Normalized Cross Correlation fast (software included).
• Tutorials [Using the ICICS Beta Grid Cluster, Fast Normalized Cross Correlation, Building a Custom Ipod Shuffle [Car] Charger, Fast NCC in 3D].
• An improved FIGURE function for Matlab R14 to prevent focus being stolen from foreground processes each time FIGURE is invoked.
• A Matlab Adaptive Rejection Sampling (ARS) implementation for efficient sampling from univariate log-concave distributions (or jointly log-concave multivariate ones)
• Object chips for generic object detection
• Matlab code to compute SIFT descriptors (oriented edge histograms) for arbitrary rectangular regions

Recently (circa 2005-2007):

• I presented at AIStats 2007 in Puerto Rico.
• I presented at the NIPS 2006 Workshop on Causality and Feature Selection.
• I participated in the ICCV2005 Contest, then attended the conference in Beijing.
• I attended the first CIAR NCAP Summer School at U. Toronto (July 2005).

Etc.:

• The 3D animation (and 2nd place winner) I created for CPSC314 (Graphics Theory/OpenGL) in [MS MPEG4] and [DIVX] formats. Kindly do not mock my geometrically challenged poodles -- you too would look like an evolutionary catastrophe if you were solely comprised of ellipsoids and cylinders.
• My Erdös number is 5: Paul Erdös -> Nathan Linial -> Zohar Yakhini -> Nir Friedman
  -> Kevin Murphy -> me.
• I kind of like skiing, and I'm kind of not bad at it.
• My UBC Dodgeball team, the "Ballz of Steel". Yes, we take ourselves very seriously.
• Absurdum: How to dry flowers