Introductions!
Emre Çelikten
I thought it would be good to introduce ourselves.
I'm Emre (male name), a senior undergraduate student of computer
engineering at İzmir Institute of Technology, Turkey. I'm interested
in machine learning and artificial intelligence in general and I plan
to go for a PhD in those fields.
I'm currently following and enjoying both ai-class and ml-class.
I probably won't have enough time to be very active but I would like
to follow what you do and be glad to help with some stuff.
Looking forward to hear from you!
Uni
I am Unaiza from Pakistan, currently putting the final touches on my MS thesis in Computer Systems (hectic times, hectic times!). I've worked on moving object detection and tracking, and this course provided me a lot of insight on how I could take this work further than the simple techniques I have used in my project.
I also have plans for a PhD, but if I can't get in, I'm quite excited to learn Python (and start programming already!). I'm still a beginner in this area, because I got introduced to this field a little late (only about a year back or so). But I am excited to learn and work more, and very motivated to follow any project ideas that we come up with together.
Hope to hear some more intros :).
Take care all!
Bye!
Uni
Maxime Leclerc
I’ve worked in software engineering since 2000. I started my career in
research (AI, ML, computer vision like Unaiza, economics and finance)
after completing a BSc in Computer Science and an MBA in Finance. I
also worked as a consultant for the government, then Microsoft and
finally Bloomberg in New York. I decided to move back to Canada where
I’m originally from.
By the way, Maxime is also a guy name over here just like Emre in
Turkey. ;) I think there are more women in software engineering than
in the past but the ratio is not one to one yet.
I’d also like to do a PhD in a top school but I’m not sure I want to
move away from my family and friends again.
Thanks for your introductions and I’m looking forward to hear from the
other group members. ;)
Maxime
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:08 AM, dileep ciddi <dileep...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> I would like to introduce myself. I am Dileep Ciddi, a final year undergrad
> in electrical and electronics engineering from National Institute of
> Technology, India. I am passionate about learning and implementing ideas
> from AI and work in teams to develop novel technologies. In the long run I
> aspire to be an entrepreneur.
> Expecting a great time working with this group of friends.
> good day
Dhruvkaran Mehta
I am Dhruv. I graduated in 2008 from NIT Trichy, India. Worked at
Google in Bangalore, India and then in Mountain View, CA for ~3 years.
Recently, I moved into the startup team for getaround.com at San Francisco.
These are exciting times to be a CS engineer. We are a scarce resource
as automation gains momentum in our society. But, in a few years,
programming will be easy. And understanding and being able to work
with data, make sense of it will be the skill in demand. We already
see some of this in our jobs. I am hoping to learn machine learning to
deepen my understanding of what users are trying to say in those logs
:)
Looking forward to working with everyone here.
Have a great rest of the week!
--Dhruv
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 8:08 AM, dileep ciddi <dileep...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> I would like to introduce myself. I am Dileep Ciddi, a final year undergrad
> in electrical and electronics engineering from National Institute of
> Technology, India. I am passionate about learning and implementing ideas
> from AI and work in teams to develop novel technologies. In the long run I
> aspire to be an entrepreneur.
> Expecting a great time working with this group of friends.
> good day
>
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Emre Çelikten
> <emre.celi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
--
Dhruv
Vikhyat Korrapati
(radiiquark)
Luffy
University,Coimbatore in 2011.
I'm interested in Algorithmic trading and its affects & Network
Security :)
I love the way ML class is being taught.
I'm more interested in Unsupervised and reinforcement learning!!
I work full time , so quite busy with that , I'll try my best to be
active here .
Really excited about the project :)
On Nov 17, 8:06 pm, Emre Çelikten <emre.celikten.1...@gmail.com>
wrote:
abi
I am Abinaya from India. A 2010 IT graduate from Amrita University,
Coimbatore, India.
Had worked in Cognizant for about a year. I will be doing my Masters
in 2012.
Planning for a Phd after that.
My area of interests are Network security, Data structures and
Algoritms, ML and AI [ later two because of the Stanford classes
actually ].
I am completely passionate about learning new things and that is the
reason why i have joined these classes and this project in the first
place.
I will try to contribute as much as i can because i am whole lot
excited about this project and its going to be a great learning
experience.
Have a good day!!!
Regards,
Abi
Argod
I'm Alejandro, I'm from latin america, but I'm living in Canada at the
moment, I have worked on software development, but in the university I
worked as a research student in artificial intelligence.
I will start my masters in ML next year, so I'm taking this courses to
refresh my memory and to prepare myself for when my classes start.
I looking forward to working with all of you!
A
AIBrisbane
Brisbane, Australia.
My name is Rafi Mohamed Feroze hailing from South India. Looks like, I
am probably the oldest(41) in the group.
I joined the Stanford courses to help me identify a suitable topic for
a PhD in AI/Logic.
My background includes a dual BS in Computer Science/Mathematics(1992,
BITS Pilani) and a certificate in BioTech(2003, UQ, Australia)
erle.mantos
Hello all,
I'm Erle Czar Mantos, a Filipino currently working in Singapore as a
senior software developer for a multinational company.
I've always been interested in AI and robotics and when the
opportunity
came for me to relearn them, I wasted no time enrolling.
As of the moment, I have a hobby robot that I'm building, and I'm
eager
to apply everything I've learned in the AI class to that robot.
I've also wanted to be involved in a community that discusses and do
something with AI hence my joining this group.
My theoretical knowledge in AI is still on a newbie level but I can
always
help out in software design/architecture/coding as those have been
what I've been doing for the past 10 years.
I'm looking forward to be active in this group's activities.
Mabuhay!
Hitlab
My Name is Michael. I'm from the US. I live in the NYC area.
I work in several fields currently:
I'm a Clinical Psychologist with a background in Cognitive Psych.
I have a PhD but haven't been working on the research end as of yet.
I also run a small database development company and a freelance in 3D
animation and film editing.
I'm very excited about AI/ML and grateful that this group was
started.
My personal interests lie in combining some of my varied backgrounds
into an amalgamation of sorts:
My plan is to apply ML in developing a means to augment one's coping
skills/psychological functioning. I think a combination of mobile
computing, microcontrollers like
arduino, and an array of sensors including standard biofeedback types
like eeg, gsr, hr, bp, as well as audio/visual sensor data, location
information via gps and
or camera could be fed to a heretofore undeveloped algorithm that
would learn very specific profiles for certain "psychological" states
and provide immediate audio/visual and maybe tactile/haptic responses
in a number of ways, e.g. crisis check lists, NLP anchors, post
hypnotic triggers, prompts and reminders, general virtual coaching
tailored to the individual and the environment at the time of auto
intervention.
I know this sounds like a huge undertaking and my first attempt at
implementation will most likely be a quite modest smaller portion of
this ideal. However, I am inspired by the work at the MIT media lab
in the Affective Computing department where they've made some great
progress in providing a sort of augmented emotional recognition system
to those with Autism.
Cheers!
M
On Nov 17, 10:06 am, Emre Çelikten <emre.celikten.1...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Rashmi Ravinathan
My name is Rashmi. I have been working in the field of Computer
Architecture for nearly 7 years now. My programming skills would be of
an intermediate level. I have experience with C/C++ on the high level
languages. X86 and ARM are the assembly languages that I know
I have signed up only for the AI class now and am planning on taking
ML in spring. I cannot say how active I would be on this group for the
next couple of months since I have a lot going on in the work front as
well as the AI class. So, you see I still have skills to develop
before I can contribute to some of the great ideas/problems that I see
coming from you people. However, I hope to start contributing once I
have some experience with ML and probably other fields of AI.
My main field of interest is Robotics as of now
Thanks,
Rashmi
Rashmi Ravinathan
Cristina
I'm Cristina -- graduated with a diploma in Computer Science in
Romania, but have been working for the last 5+ years in a German
research institute. Within the framework of EU research projects, we
mostly build software prototypes for our industrial end-users. I've
programmed in Java, C++ and a bit of Python, should that be relevant.
Doing the AI and ML classes in order to break the monotony of boring
old projects that represent my daily work :-)
Regarding interests, right now I'm leaning towards Computer Vision
(using OpenCV, I see there are others interested in this group) and
ML, but mostly just navigate towards interesting problems that are
challenging me.
For all practical purpose, I'm a noob in ML and CV, but I believe
there's nothing like learning on a real problem. So I hope I can start
contributing here soon!
--Cristina.
PS. Unaiza -- yes, my chromosomes are XX ;-)
Uni
Good to see all the intros! Many many of you are my neighbors on the map :)... [Me from Pakistan].
Ivo Danihelka
I'm Ivo from the Czech Republic. I'm 30 years old.
I have Master degree from computer science.
I program everything: compressed filesystem, distributed search, AJAX
GUI, games, ...
I have a bit more knowledge of AI and ML than is covered in the
lectures.
I got that from books and research papers.
My aim is to use AI+ML as an intelligence multiplier. I can build an
intelligent agent.
And the agent can solve harder problems. I already did that for
Sokoban.
It is nice that we have such strong community here.
It will be interesting discussions.
Thanks Maxime for creating the group.
Herbert
I am from Graz, Austria. Currently working on finishing my master studies on Software Engineering and Business Management at Graz University of Technology, Austria. Besides I work in the field of Business Intelligence for my university. Planning to do my Masters Theses and probably a PhD in the field of Machine Learning applied to Business Economics I am looking forward to working with you girls and guys on some interesting projects. I am still a noob in the field of AI and ML but very interested in getting deeper into it.
Looking forward to apply all the tools I learned in the Stanford machine learning class (ml_class) and get in contact with you!
Cheers, :-)
Herbert
Pádraic Sheerin
I'm Pádraic, from Belfast, N. Ireland. I currently work in
the Predictive Analytics group for a large US insurance
company. Traditionally we have been building statistical models using
packages such as SAS & SPSS, but are now using much more advanced
ML techniques.
I've a Degree in Maths & Statistics and I'm currently really
enjoying the ML class. I'm really look forward to learning and
working together with all of you. It's great to see so many people on
here from all over the world. :)
Deepankar Sharma
snuderl
Informatics studies with a big interest in AI. Hopefuly i'll be able
to write my diploma in this field. Currently I am prety swamped
between school and both AI and ML class, but hopefuly after these 2
are done I will have some time to try the stuff that I learned in
practice.
Oh and I am looking forward to participate in this community:)
On Nov 20, 11:17 pm, Deepankar Sharma <deepankar.sha...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am Deepankar, I have a masters in Computer Science with a specialization
> in Artificial Intelligence. I chose to specialize in Genetic Algorithms so
> I am enjoying the ML class because it gives me a new bag of tricks. I would
> love to collaborate with others on real world problems. If anyone knows of
> a problem whose solving would have a real world impact then I would be
> interested in working with others to try to crack the problem.
>
> Regards,
> Deepankar
>
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Pádraic Sheerin
> <padraic.shee...@gmail.com>wrote:
sbalajis
This is Balaji Sundaresan from New Jersey.
I am 37 years and have been working in IT for the past 16 yrs.
This is my first foray into AI.
Looking forward to working with you all.
Thanks,
Balaji
On Nov 17, 10:06 am, Emre Çelikten <emre.celikten.1...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Anna Nachesa
I am Anna, graduated as physicist but have been working in the IT since the past millennium. Found the ml-class and other Stanford classes very inspiring and hope to use this knowledge for solving some interesting real-world problems. Thanks Maxime for organizing this group! I wonder if anybody also has a twitter list for @mlclass or @aiclass tweeps? Would be nice to follow it.
Cheers,
Anna
Eby John
John Hurliman
Joseph Pollard
Hello everyone, I'm joe an undergrad from the US. Looking forward to
working with everyone on expanding our understanding of ML.
On Nov 21, 3:01 pm, John Hurliman <jhurli...@cull.tv> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am John Hurliman, co-founder of Cull TV (a company applying machine
> learning to long tail music discovery). Thoroughly enjoying expanding my
> knowledge of the field through Stanford's ML class, and look forward to
> connecting with anyone interested in the field and its application to real
> world problems.
>
> Best,
> John (@jhurliman / @culltv)
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Eby John <ebyj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
>
> > I am Eby, a software developer from India. Find ML and AI classes really
> > cool. Hope to learn more and contribute to this group.
>
> > Regards
>
> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Anna Nachesa <anach...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Hi everyone,
>
> >> I am Anna, graduated as physicist but have been working in the IT since
> >> the past millennium. Found the ml-class and other Stanford classes very
> >> inspiring and hope to use this knowledge for solving some interesting
> >> real-world problems. Thanks Maxime for organizing this group! I wonder if
> >> anybody also has a twitter list for @mlclass or @aiclass tweeps? Would be
> >> nice to follow it.
>
> >> Cheers,
>
> >> Anna
>
Sriram
I'm Sriram, a software dev. interested in applying what I learn from
the AI/ML classes. I live in Denver and we are currently on Mountain
Standard Time (MST). I'm comfortable with C++ and python. Open to any
language. Getting upto speed on Octave. Maxime has done a great job
setting all this up! Let's see if our Narwhal can drive through the
algo challenge! Look forward to working with the team!
I'm interested in the algo trading challenge and have also spoken with
others in the team on text to speech software for a particular
language. Also interested in robotics. I think I'll focus my efforts
on the algo trading challenge for now.
Here is some trivia.. What's our Narwhal's tusk made of?
Well.. concrete of course! But I submit that it needs to be more
flexible.. to adapt. Suggestions? Maybe it has a diamond tip?
OK time to get back to ml-class HW.
Go Narwhals! Thanks for reading,
Sriram
Lee Parayno
My name is Lee Parayno. I'm a 36 yo database administrator with Viacom. I've worked with MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server. Have experience programming with Perl, Java, Tcl and hacking many other scripting languages to get stuff done.
I'm in both the AI and ML classes and have an interest in Robotics as well.
I'd be interested in doing the Lego Mindstorms also if that was what we started with.
Lee Parayno
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Ketan Deshmukh
teja
I am teja , a senior undergarudate from India.I love pure logic.
Machine learning and artificial intelligence are two fields which
needs lot of thinking.I am happy the way ML class is conducted by
professor NG _/\_.
I love to learn more in these fields and contribute back .
On Nov 21, 10:34 pm, Eby John <ebyj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am Eby, a software developer from India. Find ML and AI classes really
> cool. Hope to learn more and contribute to this group.
>
> Regards
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Anna Nachesa <anach...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
>
> > I am Anna, graduated as physicist but have been working in the IT since
> > the past millennium. Found the ml-class and other Stanford classes very
> > inspiring and hope to use this knowledge for solving some interesting
> > real-world problems. Thanks Maxime for organizing this group! I wonder if
> > anybody also has a twitter list for @mlclass or @aiclass tweeps? Would be
> > nice to follow it.
>
> > Cheers,
>
> > Anna
>