Former students of Kevin Murphy

• Postdocs
  • Ben Marlin, 2008--2011, is now an assistant professor at Umass.

  • Jo-Anne Ting, 2010--2011, now works for Bosch Research in Palo Alto.

  • Julia Vogel (co-supervised with David Lowe, Jim Little and Ron Rensink), Sep 05 - May 07, is now a senior software engineer for LiberoVision, Zurich.

• PhD
  • Emtiyaz Khan, graduated December 2012.
    CS PhD: Variational learning for Latent Gaussian Models of Discrete Data.
    Emt is currently a postdoc at ETH Zurich.

  • Wei-Lwun Lu (co-supervised with Jim Little), graduated December 2011.
    CS PhD: Learning to Track and Identify Players from Broadcast Sports Videos.
    Wei-Lwun is currently a software engineer in my group at Google in Mountain View.

  • Xuekui Zhang (co-supervised with Raphael Gottardo and Gordon Robertson). Graduated July 2011.
    Stats PhD Thesis: Mixture models for analysing high-throughput sequencing data.
    Xuekui is now a postdoc at John Hopkins.
    

  • Mark Schmidt, Graduated July 2010.
    CS PhD thesis: Graphical Model Structure Learning with L1-Regularization
    Mark is currently a postdoc with Francis Bach.

  • Frank Hutter (co-supervised with Holger Hoos and Kevin Leyton-Brown). Graduated October 2009.
    CS PhD thesis: Automated Configuration of Algorithms for Solving Hard Computational Problems.
    Frank is currently a postdoc at UBC.

  • Sohrab Shah (co-supervised with Raymond Ng). Graduated September 2008.
    CS PhD thesis: "Model based approaches to aCGH data analysis".
    Sohrab is now an assistant professor at UBC in the department of pathology.

• MSc
  • David Duvenaud, graduated July 2010.
    CS MSc thesis: Multiscale Conditional Random Fields for Machine Vision
    David is now a PhD student at Cambridge.

  • Guillaume Alain, graduated July 2009.
    CS MSc thesis: Variational Methods for Detecting Copy Number Alterations

  • Hoyt Koepke (co-supervised with Bertrand Clarke), graduated August 2008.
    CS MSc Thesis: Bayesian cluster validation.
    Hoyt is now a PhD student in Stats at U. Washington.

  • Xiaohui Chen, Co-supervised with Raphael Gottardo, graduated August 2008.
    Bioinformatics MSc Thesis: Comparisons of Statistical Modeling for Constructing Gene Regulatory Networks.
    Xiaohui is now a PhD student in ECE at UBC.

  • Aline Tabet (Co-supervised with Arnaud Doucet), graduated August 2007.
    Stats MSc Thesis: Bayesian inference in the multivariate probit model: estimation of the correlation matrix.
    Aline is now a PhD student at UBC.

  • Daniel Eaton, graduated June 2007.
    CS MSc Thesis: Bayesian network structure learning for the uncertain experimentalist
    Or see the shorter UAI'07 paper (Bayesian structure learning using dynamic programming and MCMC)
    and the AISTAT'07 paper ( Exact Bayesian structure learning from uncertain interventions).
    Daniel currently works for Google NYC as a software engineer.

  • Xiang (Sam) Xuan, graduated March 2007.
    CS MSc Thesis: Bayesian inference on changepoint problems.
    Or see the shorter ICML'07 version Modeling changing dependency structure in multivariate time series.
    Xiang currently works at Microsoft as a programmer.

  • Jordan Reynolds (co-supervised with Jim Little), graduated December 2006.
    CS MSc Thesis: Hierarchical segment boost: a segment level classification approach to object class recognition.
    Or see the shorter CRV'07 version Figure-ground segmentation using a hierarchical conditional random field.
    Jordan now works as Electrical Design Engineer and IT Manager for Contech Electronics, Victoria.

• Undergrads
  • Matt Dunham, graduated June 2009.
    Co-developer of PMTK

  • Ben Helsley, graduated June 2008.
    CS honors thesis: Learning DAGs from multiple data sources.
    Ben is now a programmer at Microsoft.

  • Mike Li, graduated June 2006.
    CS honors thesis: Bayesian inference by discretization.
    Mike is a now a grad student in statistics at Purdue.