Former students of Kevin Murphy

• Postdocs
  • Julia Vogel (co-supervised with David Lowe, Jim Little and Ron Rensink), Sep 05 - May 07.
    See our CRV07 paper A non-myopic approach to visual search
    Julia is now a senior software engineer for LiberoVision, Zurich.

• PhD
  • Frank Hutter (co-supervised with Holger Hoos and Kevin Leyton-Brown). PhD in CS, September 2009.

  • Sohrab Shah (co-supervised with Raymond Ng). PhD in CS, September 2008.

• MSc
  • Guillaume Alain, graduated July 2009.

  • Hoyt Koepke (co-supervised with Bertrand Clarke), graduated August 2008.
    CS MSc Thesis: Bayesian cluster validation.
    Hoyt is now a PhD student in Stats at U. Washington.

  • Xiaohui Chen, Co-supervised with Raphael Gottardo, graduated August 2008.
    Bioinformatics MSc Thesis: Comparisons of Statistical Modeling for Constructing Gene Regulatory Networks.
    Xiaohui is now a PhD student in ECE at UBC.

  • Aline Tabet (Co-supervised with Arnaud Doucet), graduated August 2007.
    Stats MSc Thesis: Bayesian inference in the multivariate probit model: estimation of the correlation matrix.
    Aline is now a PhD student at UBC.

  • Daniel Eaton, graduated June 2007.
    CS MSc Thesis: Bayesian network structure learning for the uncertain experimentalist
    Or see the shorter UAI'07 paper (Bayesian structure learning using dynamic programming and MCMC)
    and the AISTAT'07 paper ( Exact Bayesian structure learning from uncertain interventions).
    Daniel currently works for Acceleware in Calgary as an engineer.

  • Xiang (Sam) Xuan, graduated March 2007.
    CS MSc Thesis: Bayesian inference on changepoint problems.
    Or see the shorter ICML'07 version Modeling changing dependency structure in multivariate time series.
    Xiang currently works at Microsoft as a programmer.

  • Jordan Reynolds (co-supervised with Jim Little), graduated December 2006.
    CS MSc Thesis: Hierarchical segment boost: a segment level classification approach to object class recognition.
    Or see the shorter CRV'07 version Figure-ground segmentation using a hierarchical conditional random field.
    Jordan now works as Electrical Design Engineer and IT Manager for Contech Electronics, Victoria.

• Undergrads
  • Ben Helsley, graduated June 2008.
    CS honors thesis: Learning DAGs from multiple data sources.
    Ben is now a programmer at Microsoft.

  • Mike Li, graduated June 2006.
    CS honors thesis: Bayesian inference by discretization.
    Mike is a now a grad student in statistics at Purdue.