CS Visiting Scholars/Paid Direct Postdocs, 2009-2010
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Rosita Alvarez-Croft
253 Cory Hall, 510-643-4976
rosita@eecs
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Thomas Stefan Brox
Host: Jitendra Malik. Dr. Brox received his Ph.D. from Saarland University, Germany. He has been granted a Postdoctoral Fellowship from DAAD and will continue his research plans with Professor Malik and collaborating groups on computer vision: object recognition. Appt.: October 1, 2008 through September 30, 2010.
e-mail: brox@eecs
Office: 7th flr, SD Hall
Phone: N/A
Emma Brunskill
Host: Stuart Russell. Dr. Brunskill received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in June 2009. She has been granted a Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship award from NSF. She will continue her research plans with Professor Russell on using AI and machine learning techniques on problems arising in the developing world. Appt.: September 1, 2009 through August 31, 2011.
e-mail: emma@eecs
Office: 7th flr, SD Hall
Phone: N/A
Juan Caballero-Bayerri
Host: Dawn Song. Mr. Caballero is in the Ph.D. program at Carnegie Mellon University. Professor Dawn Song will continue as his Advisor within the U.C. Berkeley setting. His continuing research will be on computer security, specifically on applying software security techniques to diverse network security problems. His appt: June 1, 2009 through August 31, 2010.
e-mail: juanca@eecs
Office: 725 Soda Hall
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Dewang Chen
Host: Lotfi Zadeh. Dr. Chen is an Associate Professor at Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China. He will collaborate with Professor Zadeh and the BISC Group on fuzzy rule learning and soft computing application in transportation. His appt.: January 15, 2009 through January 14, 2010.
e-mail: dwchen@eecs
Office: 415 Soda Hall
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Christos Mario Christoudias
Dr. Christoudias received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in July 2009. With a postdoctoral appointment and sponsorship with Adjunct Professor Darrell, he will continue his research on multi-view semi-supervised learning and feature selection. Pending appt.: October 15, 2009 through December 31, 2010.
e-mail: cmch@eecs
Office: 7th flr, SD Hall
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Charles De Rousiers
Host: Prof. Ravi Ramamoorthi. Mr. De Rousiers is a Ph.D. student majoring in computer graphics from Grenoble University. Under the guidance of Professor Ramamoorthi, he will continue with his doctoral research in computer graphics. Pending appt.: March 1, 2010 through August 31, 2010.
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Office: 545 Soda Hall
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Jennifer Dy
Host: Michael Jordan. Dr. Dy is an Assistant Professor at Northeaster University, Boston Massachusetts. She will be collaborating with Professor Jordan on: 1) developing algorithms for dimensionality reduction in the unsupervised learning context; 2) general methods for incorporation domain constraints in graphical model learning. Pending appt.: August 17, 2009 through December 20, 2009.
e-mail: jdy@ece@gmail.com
Office: 7th flr., DS Hall
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Carl Henrik Ek
Host: Trevor Darrell. Dr. Ek completed his Ph.D. degree in August 2009 from Oxford Brookes University, England. With a Postdoctoral Fellowship from ICSI, he will collaborate with Professor Darrell on research pertaining to Gaussian process lantent variable models for feature fusion. Pending appt.: October 15, 2009 through March 31, 2010.
e-mail: ek@icsi.berkeley.edu
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Mario Fritz
Host: Trevor Darrell. Dr. Fritz received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany, in August 2008. With a Postdoctoral Fellowship from ICSI he will collaborate with Professor Darrell on research to develop scalable methods for visual categorization. Pending appt.: October 1, 2009 through September 30, 2011.
e-mail: mfritz@icsi.berkeley.edu
Office: 7th Flr., SD Hall
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David Galvez Ruiz
Host: Lotfi Zadeh. Dr. Galvez Ruiz completed his Ph.D. degree in the doctoral program of Statistics and Operational Research from the University of Seville in April 2009. He is employed as a Researcher under the FPI contract from the Research Division of the University of Seville. In alliance with Professor Zadeh, Dr. Galvez Ruiz will explore new directions in fuzzy logic and its application to operational research and microeconomics. Appt.: July 13, 2009 through October 24, 2009.
email: davidgalvez@us.es
Office: 415 Soda Hall
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Ali Ghodsi
Host: Ion Stoica. Dr. Ghodsi is an Assistant Professor in Distributed Computer Systems at KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. With Professor Stoica, Dr. Ghodsi will expand on his research plans on the topic of distributed computing systems; in particular, research on large scale and fault-tolerant distributed systems. Appt.: June 30, 2009 through June 29, 2011.
email: alig@eecs
Office: 487D, 465 Soda Hall (Rad Lab)
Phone: N/A
Nitesh Goyal
Host: John Canny. Mr. Goyal is in the M.S. program in Software Systems Engineering from RWTH Aachen, Germany. He will be collaborating with Professor Canny on the realms of collaborative user interfaces. Appt.: October 1, 2009 through March 31, 2010.
email: nitesh.goyal.84@gmail.com
Office: 360 HMMB
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Soeren Hauberg
Host: Professor Bajcsy. Mr. Hauberg is a Ph.D. student at the University of Copenhagen. He will be collaborating with Professor Bajcsy and continue his projects in machine learning and computer vision. Pending appt.: January 15, 2010 through June 30, 2010.
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Office: 474 HMMB
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James Hollan
Host: Maneesh Agrawala. Dr. Hollan is a Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at U.C. San Diego. During his sabbatical, he will be working closely with Professor Agrawala, with work centering on cognitive, computational, and social ecology of computationally-based Media. Appt.: April 14, 2009 through December 31, 2009.
email: hollan@eecs
Office: 643 Soda Hall
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Eun-Jin Im
Host: Katherine Yelick. Dr. Im is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science, Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea. She will be collaborating with Professor Yelick on research regarding automatic performance tuning of massive computation on parallel systems. Appt.: December 23, 2008 through January 19, 2010.
e-mail: ejim@cs.berkeley.edu
Office: Par Lab 517 Soda Hall
Phone: N/A
Vidyottama Jain
Host: Lotfi Zadeh. Dr. Jain's holds an academic position as Senior Lecturer in the Dept. of Mathematics, Amrita School of Engineering (ASE), Bangalore, India. She will collaborate with Professor Zadeh on perception-based game theory. Appt.: April 27, 2009 through March 31, 2010
e-mail: v_jain@eecs
Office: 415 Soda Hall
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Nasser Jazdi-Motlagh
Host: Lotfi Zadeh. Dr. Jazdi Motlagh is Professor at the Universitat Stuttgart, Institute of Industrial Automation and Software Engineering, Germany. Professor Zadeh and the BISC Grp. will collaborate with Dr. Jazdi on the usage of soft computing for developing of industrial automation systems. Appt.: October 1, 2009 through November 15, 2009.
email: jazdi@eecs
Office: 415 Soda Hall
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Dominik Kaeser
Host: Maneesh Agrawala. Mr. Kaeser is currently enrolled in the M.S. program in Computer Science at ETH Zurich. He will collaborate with Professor Agrawala in the research area of multi-touch interfaces and its applications in computer-aided modeling and animation. His appt.: November 25, 2009 through May 24, 2010.
e-mail: dominik.kaeser@gmail.com
Office: 514 Soda Hall
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Min Gyung Kang
Host: Dawn Song. Mr. Kang is currently enrolled as a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Professor Dawn Song will continue as his Advisor within the U.C. Berkeley setting. His continuing research will be on Malware analysis. Appt.: June 2009 through August 31, 2010.
e-mail: mgkang@eecs
Office: 727 Soda Hall
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Marius Kloft
Host: Peter Bartlett. Mr. Kloft is enrolled as a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science program at the Technical University of Berlin. He will collaborate with Professor Bartlett on research pertaining to prediction in adversarial environments. Appt.: October 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010.
e-mail: mkloft@cs
Office:750 SD Hall
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Adi Livnat
Host: Christos Papadimitriou. Dr. Livnat is Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at U.C. Berkeley. With Professor Papadimitriou, Dr. Livnat will pursue two lines of research: using circuit models and game theory to explore counterintuitive properties of brain and behavior, and examining evolutionary questions from a computer science perspective. Appt.: April 26, 2007 through December 31, 2009.
e-mail: adi@eecs
Office: 795 Soda Hall
Phone: 643-9287
Eladio Martin
Host: Ruzena Bajcsy. Dr. Martin received his Ph.d. in Telecommunications from the University of Bradford, England. He is an Assistant Professor at the University Miguyel Hernandez in Spain. Professor Bajcsy will collaborate with Dr. Martin on interests including mobile telecommunications networks, localization, and wireless technologies. Appt.: October 1, 2009 through December 1, 2010.
email: emartin@berkeley.edu
Office:474 HMMB
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Lorenz Minder
Host: Alistair Sinclair. Dr. Minder received his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL) in 2007. With a postdoctoral appointment and sponsorship with Professor Sinclair, he will continue studying modifications of the k-tree algorithm. The second part of his plan address aspects of the code reconstruction problem. Appt.: February 1, 2008 through January 31, 2010.
email: lorenz@eecs
Office: 795 Soda Hall
Phone: N/A
Jesper Nielsen
Host: Yun Song. Jesper Nielsen is currently a Computer Science Ph.D. student in the Bioinformatics Research Center, Aarhus University, Denmark. He will be collaborating with Professor Yun Song on methods for association mapping - ways to detect genotype- phenotype association. Appt.: August 17, 2009 through March 26, 2010.
email: jesni@eecs
Office: 527 Soda Hall
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Pongsin Poosankam
Host: Dawn Song. Mr. Poosankam is currently a Computer Science Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University. Professor Dawn Song will continue as his Advisor within the U.C. Berkeley setting. His continuing research will be on binary malware anlaysis using a technique of symbolic execution to thoroughly explore the behavior of a malicious software. Appt.: September 1, 2009 through August 31, 2010.
e-mail: ppoosank@eecs
Office: 725 Soda Hall
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Ulrich Rueckert
Host: Michael Jordan. Dr. Ruecker received his Ph.D. at Technische Universitat Munchen in 2008. He has a posdoctoral appointment with ICSI. With joint EECS alliance with Professor Jordan, research will focus on inductive transfer - the task of transfering knowledge from previous learning tasks in the past to new learning problems at hand. Appt.: September 1, 2009 through August 31, 2011.
e-mail: rueckert@icsi.berkeley.edu
Office: 750 SD Hall
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David Salesin
Host: Carlo Sequin. Professor Salesin is Senior Principal Scientist and Manager of the Creative Technologies Lab, Adobe Systems. He is also Afiliate Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He will be collaborating with Professor Sequin and members of the Graphics and HCI Groups within EECS. Pending appt.: October 15, 2009 through August 15, 2010.
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Office: 643 Soda Hall
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Mathieu Salzmann
Host: Trevor Darrell. Dr. Salzmann completed his Ph.D. degree in Computer Vision from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in January 2009. With an ICSI Fellowship, Dr. Salzmann will collaborate with Professor Darrell on his continued project: automatic acquision of hierarchical structures for efficient representation and recognition. Appt: April 1, 2010 through January 31, 2011.
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Office: 7th flr, SD Hall
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Kevin Sartori
Host: Pieter Abbeel
Host: Pieter Abbeel. Mr. Kevin Sartori is currently enrolled in the M.Sc. degree program in Mechanical
Engineering - Robotics, at ETH Zurich. He will collaborate with Professor Abbeel
on mutual projects in the field of robotics and control. Pending appt.: January 18, 2010
through July 17, 2010.
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Office: 476 Cory Hall
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Anders Friis Soerensen
Host: Pieter Abbeel. Anders Friis is currently enrolled in the M.Sc. degree program in Control Engineering - Intelligent Autonomous Systems at Aalborg University. He will collaborate with Professor Abbeel on a mutual project to develop novel learning, perception and control algorithms to advance the state-of-the art in autonomous helicopter flight and, more generally, in autonomous robotics. Appt.: August 1, 2009 through January 15, 2010.
e-mail: andersfs@berkeley.edu
Office: 476 Cory Hall
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Marc Thurley
> Host: Alistair Sinclair. Marc Thurley completed his Ph.D. requirements from Humboldt-University of Berlin on September 18, 2009. With a postdoctoral appointment and sponsorship with Professor Sinclair, he will continue continue with his research, aiming toward a deeper understanding of the extent to which homomorphism functions can be approximated efficiently. Pending appt.: January 7, 2010 through December 31, 2010.
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Raquel Urtasun Sotil
Host: Trevor Darrell. Raquel received her Ph.D. degree (Computer Vision Laboratory) from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in 2006. Ms. Urtasun has collaborated her research with the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) and EECS to continue her research with Adjunct Professor Darrell on computer vision and machine learning. Appt.: November 3, 2008 through December 31, 2009.
e-mail: rurtasun@eecs
Office: 537 Soda Hall (Graphics Lab)
Phone: N/A
Paul Valiant
Host: Christos Papadimitriou. Paul received his Ph.D. in computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in June 2008. With a postdoctoral appointment and sponsorship with Professor Papadimitriou, he will continue with his research on leveraging the tools of theoretical CS to address major open problems inthe other sciences. Appt.: September 22, 2009 through September 21, 2011.
e-mail: pvaliant@eecs
Office: 773 Soda Hall
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Hongan Wang
Host: John Canny. Professor Wang is Director of the Intelligence Engineering Lab at the Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. He will be collaborating with Professor Canny and the Berkeley Institute of Design Group (BID) with his continuing projects on sustainability and education (cooperation on human-centered computing) in developing regions of the world. Pending appt.: October 8, 2009 through January 7, 2010.
e-mail: hongan.w@gmail.com
Office: 360 HMMB
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Shu Zhao
Host: Lotfi Zadeh. Professor Shu Zhao holds the position of Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University. She will collaborate with Professor Zadeh on mutual research interests on fuzzy quotient space theory. Appt.: August 20, 2010 through August 19, 2011.
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Office: 415 Soda Hall
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Zhong Zhou
JHost: Ruzena Bajcsy. Dr. Zhou holds the position of Associate Professor in State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Techology and Systems, Beihang Univesity, Beijing, China. He will collaborate with Professor Bajcsy on tele-immersion and collaborative mixed reality research. Appt.: June 6, 2009 through June 5, 2010.
e-mail: bybye200@eecs
Office: TI Lab, SD Hall
Phone: N/A
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