KEVIN PATRICK MURPHY
Email: murphyk@cs.berkeley.edu.
Home page: http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~murphyk
Research Interests
Machine learning, pattern recognition and AI in general.
My current research focuses on probabilistic (Bayesian) networks,
especially as applied to temporal sequences. In the past I have worked
on object recognition and image retrieval, and biological sequence analysis.
Education
| Year | Institution | Degree | Advisor |
| 1996- | University of California, Berkeley | PhD in Computer Science (transferred) | S. Russell |
| 1994-1996 | University of California, Davis | PhD in Computer Science | D. Gusfield |
| 1992-1994 | University of Pennsylvania | MSE in Computer Science | D. Searls |
| 1989-1992 | University of Cambridge, England | BA (Hons) in Computer Science | K. Moody |
Publications
1. ``Space-efficient inference in dynamic probabilistic networks'',
John Binder, Kevin Murphy, Stuart Russell.
IJCAI '97 (Intnl. Joint Conf. on AI).
2. ``Learning Finite Automata'', Kevin P. Murphy, Santa Fe Institute
Tech. Report, 1996, 96-04-017.
3. ``Automata-Theoretic Models of Mutation and Alignment'', David Searls
and Kevin Murphy. In ISMB '95 (Proc. of the Third Conf. on Intelligent
Systems for Molecular Biology).
Scholarships and Awards
| 1992-94 | Fulbright Award |
| 1992-94 | Thouron Scholarship (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 1990-92 | King's College Scholarship (Univserity of Cambridge) |
| 1989-92 | Philips Research Laboratories Sponsorship |
| 1989 | Daily Telegraph/ BAAS Young Science Writer Award |
Teaching Experience
| Spring 97 & 96 | University of California, Berkeley. Teaching Assistant. |
| TA for an introductory class on Artificial Intelligence. | |
| Fall 94 | University of California, Davis. Teaching Assistant. |
| TA for a class on the principles of programming languages. | |
| Fall 93 - Spring 94 | University of Pennsylvania Tutoring center. Math tutor. |
| Tutored calculus. |
Other Experience
| Summer 96 | University of California, Berkeley. Research Assistant. |
| Worked with S. Russell on new inference algorithms for probabilistic networks. | |
| Summers 95 & 94 | Los Alamos National Laboratory. NM. Graduate Research Assistant. |
| Worked with C. Macken on pattern detection in biological sequence data. | |
| Summer 93 | Santa Fe Institute. NM. Summer Intern. |
| Worked with S. Kauffman on models of co-evolving species. | |
| Summer 92 | Toby Churchill, Ltd. Cambridge, England. Programmer. |
| Worked with T. Briscoe on building a phonetic dictionary for use in a speech synthesiser. | |
| Summers 91 & 90 | Philips Research Laboratories. Redhill, England. Summer Intern. |
| Wrote programs to noninvasively monitor the performance
of a pipeline of transputers (1991) and developed a simulation of the IEEE 802 protocol for ethernets (1990). |
|
| 8/88 - 8/89 | Philips Research Laboratories. Redhill, England. Pre-University Student. |
| Wrote an extensive library of routines for doing file manipulation and simple image processing. |
Computer skills
7 years experience of Unix and many different
languages, including C++, Lisp and Perl.
Referees
1. Prof. Stuart Russell. Department of Computer Science. University of
California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA 94720. russell@cs.berkeley.edu
2. Dr. David Searls. Group Director for Bioinformatics,
SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals.
709 Swedeland Road, PO Box 1539.
King of Prussia, PA 19406. David_B_Searls@sbphrd.com.