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I am a postdoc at the Computer Science Department at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, working with Prof. Holger Hoos and Prof. Kevin Leyton-Brown.
I am working on the intersection of machine learning and search for combinatorial problems, my current focus being supervised machine learning for automated parameter tuning of search algorithms.
Before becoming a postdoc I finished my PhD at UBC under the primary supervision of Prof. Holger Hoos, co-supervised by Prof. Kevin Leyton-Brown and Prof. Kevin Murphy.

I'm affiliated with the Laboratory for Computational Intelligence (LCI) and the Bioinformatics and Empirical & Theoretical Algorithmics Laboratory (BETA-Lab).
I host the Empirical Algorithmics Reading Group (EARG).
Together with Marco Montes de Oca, I organized the Doctoral Symposium on Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms (SLS-DS-09).
Togther with Wheeler Ruml, I organized the AAAI-06 workshop on Learning for Search.

There is more information available on my research and papers.