I am a PhD student at Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia.
My supervisor is Dr. Kevin Murphy
My committee members are Dr. Nando. D. Freitas and Dr. Arnaud Doucet.
I collaborate with Dr. Benjamin Marlin, Dr. Guillaume Bouchard, and Dr. Shakir Mohamed.
I am a member of Laboratory of Computational Intelligence.
My office is at CS 193 and you can mail me at CS mailing address.
My full name is "Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan", but you can call me "Emtiyaz" or "Emti" or "MT".
You can email me at emtiyaz[at]cs.ubc.ca, emtiyaz[at]gmail.com

Recent News

I will be finishing my PhD soon and am looking for a job!
16 Apr 2012: Poster for AISTATS 2012 upload [ poster ].
11 Mar 2012: Invited talks at EPFL, XRCE, and INRIA-SIERRA [ slides ].
08 Feb 2012: I uploaded code and datasets for our new AISTATS paper.
08 Feb 2012: I uploaded a tutorial report on Approximate message passing.
20 Dec 2011: catLGM software for categorical Data Analysis released. See list of examples.
13 Dec 2011: New paper accepted in AIstats 2012 on Categorical Data Analysis with Latent Gaussian Models
15 Nov 2011: [ Code ] for piecewise bound to log(1+exp(x)) is released.
29 Sep 2011: New talk at Microsoft Research, Redmond [ Video ] [ slides ]
29 Jun 2011: New talk at ICML 2011 [ Video ] [ slides ]
29 Jun 2011: Appendix to our new ICML paper posted.
Jun 2011: New paper in ICML 2011, Piecewise Bounds for Estimating Bernoulli-Logistic Latent Gaussian Models.
Dec 2010: New paper in NIPS 2010, Variational Bounds for Mixed-Data Factor Analysis.

Research Interests (See full list of publications)

My main area of interest is machine learning and statistics with a focus on topics listed below.
Hierarchical Bayesian Models: Bayesian regression, latent Gaussian models, topic models, and sparse graphical models.
Developing accurate, efficient, and scalable algorithms for inference, parameter learning, and model selection.
Approximation techniques based on variational methods, MCMC, and search algorithms.

Research Experience

2006-present: PhD student at University of British Columbia with Dr. Kevin Murphy.
Aug-Dec 2009: Internship at Xerox Research Center Europe (XRCE), Grenoble, France with Dr. Guillaume Bouchard.
2004-2006: Senior engineer at Honeywell Tech. Sol. Lab, Bangalore, India in Control and Communication research group.
2002-2004: MSc at ECE dept in Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore on brain-computer interfaces.

Miscellaneous

I was Vice President (Social) for CSGSA in 2007-08.
I (along with Lucas and Uwe) initiated a casual lecture series called UDLS.
I also started a series of refresher courses to help new graduate students with the courses in CS.