Fares Hedayati

Email: fareshed at eecs.[university].edu

I am a PhD candidate in computer science at UC Berkeley working with Prof. Peter Bartlett. My primary research interests are in theoretical machine learning, online learning and minimum description length principle. I have also worked on OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and handwriting recognition. Here is a link to my CV on linkedin.

Publications

The Optimality of Jeffreys Prior for Online Density Estimation and the Asymptotic Normality of Maximum Likelihood Estimators [pdf]

Fares Hedayati, Peter Bartlett

Exchangeability Characterizes Optimality of Sequential Normalized Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian Prediction with Jeffreys Prior [pdf]

Fares Hedayati, Peter Bartlett

Recognition of Tibetan wood block prints with generalized hidden Markov and kernelized modified quadratic distance function [pdf]

Fares Hedayati, Jike Chong, Kurt Keutzer

Teachings

CS70: Discrete Mathematics and Probability Theory

Spring 2011, James Demel, UC Berkeley

CS170: Efficient Algorithms and Intractable Problems

Fall 2008, Satish Rao, UC Berkeley

CS61A: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Fall 2009, Brian Harvey, UC Berkeley