Brian Gawalt's Homepage.

About Me

I am in my fourth year of graduate school here at U.C. Berkeley. I'm currently on track for a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, having just last month passed my preliminary exam. My current work has me applying convex optimization and parameter estimation techniques to news articles and their bag-of-words lexical content. Specifically, I have devised an l1-regularized version of the Naive Bayesian classifier for binary data. My advisor in these efforts is Prof. Laurent El Ghaoui. I have a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia from the spring of 2005, where I completed a design thesis on blind modulation detection for digital communication signals.

Graduate Student Instruction

A quick run-down of my TA gigs:

Course Work