Nando de Freitas

These are the people that make it all possible through their ingenuity and hard work.

PhD students

David Buchman
Matt Hoffman
Bobak Shahriari

Masters students

Misha Denil
John Chia
Jing Fang
Ziyu Wang
Masrour Zoghi

Alumni

Byron Knoll Masters thesis: A machine learning perspective on predictive coding using PAQ8 and new applications. Current position: Software engineer at Google.

Nimalan Mahendran Masters thesis: Bayesian Optimization for Adaptive MCMC. Current position: Software developer at Summify.

Eric Brochu PhD Thesis: Interactive Bayesian Optimization: : Learning user preferences for graphics and animation. Masters thesis: Milq. Current position: Senior Developer and Machine Learning Researcher at PocketPixels

Hendrik Kueck Masters thesis: Bayesian formulations of multiple instance learning with applications to general object recognition. Current position: Founder and "boss" at PocketPixels

Kevin Swersky. Masters thesis: Inductive principles for learning Restricted Boltzmann Machines. Current position: PhD student at University of Toronto

Bo Chen. Masters thesis: Deep learning of invariant spatio-temporal features from video. Current position: PhD student at Caltech.

Peter Carbonetto Masters thesis: Unsupervised statistical models for general object recognition. PhD thesis: New probabilistic inference algorithms that harness the strengths of variational and Monte Carlo methods. Current position: Postdoc at U. of Chicago

Firas Hamze. PhD thesis: Monte Carlo integration in discrete undirected probabilistic models. Current position: Researcher at D-Wave

Mike Vlad Cora. Masters thesis: Model-based active learning in hierarchical policies. Current position: Lead Gameplay Programmer at United Front Games

Ruben Martinez Cantin PhD thesis: Active Map Learning for Robots: Insights into Statistical Consistency. Current position: Associate Professor at Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Zaragoza, Spain.

Maryam Mahdaviani. Masters thesis: Semi-supervised and active training of conditional random fields for activity recognition. Current position: CEO at Optemo

Mingyue Tan. Masters thesis: Comparative study of Kernel based classification and feature selection methods with gene expression data. Current position: Program Manager at Microsoft

Asher Lipson. Masters thesis: Empirically evaluating multiagent reinforcement learning algorithms in repeated games. Current position: Head: Quantitative Research at Standard Bank, South Africa

Jean-Noel Rivasseau. Masters thesis: From the jungle to the garden : growing trees for Markov chain Monte Carlo inference in undirected graphical models. Current position: Entrepreneur at shoopz

Mike Klaas. Masters thesis: Exorcising N2 stigmata in Sequential Monte Carlo. Current position: CTO of Zite, acquired by CNN

Dustin Lang. Masters thesis: Fast methods for inference in graphical models and beat tracking the graphical model way. Current position: Postdoc at Princeton

Yizheng Cai. Masters thesis: Robust visual tracking for multiple targets. Current position: Software Engineer at Microsoft

Scott Helmer. Masters thesis: Object recognition with many local features. Current position: PhD at UBC

Ruben Morales Menendez. Current position: Full Professor at ITESM

Kejie Bao. Masters thesis: On-line EM and quasi-Bayes: How I learned to stop worrying and love stochastic approximation. Current position: Software Engineer at Yahoo