Xiaojin Zhu (Jerry)

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin, Madison
1210 West Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706-1685, USA

Tel: 608-890-0129
Fax: 608-262-9777
Email: jerryzhu@cs.wisc.edu


Research Interests: My group designs statistical machine learning algorithms, and studies their applications in domains as diverse as natural language processing, human computer interaction, cognitive psychology, and computer systems.

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Current Professional Activities

Program Committee: UAI 2009, ICML 2009, ACL 2009, NAACL 2009, AISTATS 2009, ICML 2008, AAAI 2008, ACL 2008, EMNLP 2008
AAAI 2009 Fall Symposium on Manifold Learning and its Applications
University of Chicago Summer School/Workshop on Theory and Practice of Computational Learning, 2009
North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO 2009) Wisconsin site 2009
NIPS 2008 Workshop on Machine Learning Meets Human Learning
AI at Wisconsin

Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University, 2005. (C.V.)


Teaching

Fall 2009: (CS 540) Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Summer 2009: Machine Learning and Cognitive Science Readings
Spring 2009: (CS 769) Advanced Natural Language Processing, also known as "machine learning for text"
Spring 2009: Nonparametric Bayesian Reading
Spring 2009: HAMLET (Human, Animal, and Machine Learning: Experiment and Theory)
Spring 2009: Graduate Advising Committee (GAC) hours 11-12 Mondays, 9:30-10:30 Tuesdays


Student Collaborators: David Andrzejewski, Nate Fillmore, Bryan Gibson, Andrew Goldberg, Zhiting Xu

Alumni
Lijie Heng, MS 2008, Oracle
Jurgen Van Gael, MS 2007, Ph.D. student at University of Cambridge


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