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Two Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Big Data and Machine Learning

Jeff Bilmes bilmes@ee.washington.edu
11:08 AM (57 minutes ago)
to cs-ugrads

I am looking to hire two undergraduates for two separate research
positions in machine learning and big data.

The first position involves computer vision and big data. The student
must have a background in web-design and also ideally some experience
with Amazon Turk. We intend to create an interactive website where the
workers can view and select images from a set of images in an
interactive manner. This would require some server level application
design, like asp.net or it’s equivalents along with using the amazon
turk API. There is also opportunity to participate in the underlying
research involving big data and machine learning, with the goal of a
submission to a top-tier computer vision conference.

The second position is for research involving big time-series data, in
particular speech utterances. You will join a team of two graduate
students and two professors on a project that involves new methods to
improve speech recognition accuracy and computational feasibility. We
will be investigating a number of advanced machine learning methods,
and the end goal is, like the above, a number of conference and
journal publications.

Both positions offer a great chance to get involved in exciting new
research. If you are interested in either of these positions, please
send email to:

Prof. Jeff Bilmes <bilmes+ugrad@uw.edu>

Please do the following:
1) indicate which position you are interested in in the subject
by including keyword either “vision”, “time series”, or “both”
2) Attach your resume
3) Attach a copy of your academic transcript

The positions will remain open until filled.

September 24, 2012