courtesy of "Piled higher and deeeper" by Jorge Cham (www.phdcomics.com)
courtesy of "Piled higher and deeeper" by Jorge Cham (www.phdcomics.com)
| I received my masters in computer science from the University
of Washington in 2004. My primary advisor was Dan Weld, and I was also co-advised
by Oren Etzioni. I'm on leave from the PhD program, currently working at
Google. My areas of interest are primarily in data-mining and machine learning,
but also cover other areas of artificial intelligence including information
retrieval and information extraction. I worked on various parts of
KnowItAll.
I graduated from the University of Arizona with a B.S. in computer science and my advisor was Greg Andrews. My honors/research project was done under Greg Andrews and Saumya Debray, and the focus was on value profiling and specialization for the Pentium (in the context of PLTO - Pentium Link-Time Optimizer). People often ask (and sometimes I wonder) how I ended up in computer science. Although much of it might be the result of chance, it is probably related to my abilities in chess and math. I like general problem solving, enjoy building and designing systems, and what better language to do it in than math? |
| Publications |
| Unsupervised Named-Entity Extraction from the Web: An Experimental Study. Oren Etzioni, Michael Cafarella, Doug Downey, Ana-Maria Popescu, Tal Shaked, Daniel S. Weld, Alexander Yates. (To Appear in Artificial Intelligence) |
| Methods for Domain-Independent Information Extraction from the
Web: An Experimental Comparison Oren Etzioni, Michael Cafarella,
Doug Downey, Ana-Maria Popescu, Tal Shaked, Stephen Soderland,
Daniel S. Weld, Alexander Yates. (In AAAI 2004)
Web-scale Information Extraction in KnowItAll. Oren Etzioni, Michael Cafarella, Doug Downey, Stanley Kok, Ana-Maria Popescu, Tal Shaked, Stephen Soderland, Daniel S. Weld, Alexander Yates. (In WWW 2004) The Use of Web-based Statistics to Validate Information Extraction. Stephen Soderland, Oren Etzioni, Tal Shaked, Daniel S. Weld. (In AAAI 2004 Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining) Timing Driven Force Directed Placement with Physical Net Constraints. K, Rajagopal, T. Shaked, Y. Parasuram, T. Cao, A. Chowdhary, B. Halpin. (ISPD 2003) |