Professor Sam Roweis
"Visualization and Classification of High
Dimensional Datasets"
All undergraduate students are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be provided.
Sam Roweis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. His research interests are in machine learning, data mining, and statistical signal processing. Roweis did his undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto in the Engineering Science program and earned his doctoral degree in 1999 from the California Institute of Technology working with John Hopfield. He did a postdoc with Geoff Hinton and Zoubin Ghahramani at the Gatsby Unit in London, and has also worked in several industrial research labs including Bell Labs, and Whizbang! Labs. He is the holder of a Canada Research Chair in Statistical Machine Learning and the winner of a Premier's Research Excellence Award.