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Yunus Saatçi

Academic Biography

For my undergraduate studies I studied Computer Science at Cambridge University. After completing my undergraduate degree, I worked for one year as a research and teaching assistant under the supervision of Dr. Richard Gibbens. After the assistantship, I moved to Edinburgh University to pursue a Master's Degree in Informatics, focussing on the "Learning From Data" specialism. I was supervised by Dr. Amos Storkey. I am now a Ph.D. student back in Cambridge under the supervision of Dr. Carl Rasmussen.

I am a proponent of using Bayesian and nonparametric Bayesian methods for many machine learning problems. The use of these methods frequently results in computationally intensive algorithms. My research interests revolve around devising techniques to improve the scalability of Bayesian methods, be it through careful algorithmic design, approximate inference or the effective use of parallelism. My Ph.D. can be viewed as a compendium of tricks one can use to speed up exact inference and learning for Gaussian Processes. You can check it out here.

For further details please see my CV.
Yunus Saatchi

Publications

  • Saatci, Y., Turner, R., Rasmussen, C.E. "Gaussian Process Change Point Models", International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2010 PDF
  • Turner, R., Saatci, Y., Rasmussen, C.E. "Adaptive Bayesian Sequential Changepoint Detection", NIPS 22: Temporal Segmentation Workshop, 2009 PDF
  • Van Gael, J., Saatci, Y., Teh, Y.W., Ghahramani, Z. "Beam sampling for the Infinite Hidden Markov Model", International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2008 PDF
  • Gibbens, R.J. and Saatci, Y. "Data, Modelling and Inference in Road-traffic Networks", Royal Society Phil. Trans. A, 2008 PDF
  • Saatci, Y. and Town, C.P. "Cascaded Classification of Gender and Facial Expressions using Active Appearance Models", Proc. International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2006 PDF

Contact Information

Room BE440, Department of Engineering
Trumpington Street, Cambridge
CB2 1PZ, UK
Phone: +44 (0) 122 374 851 2
Fax: +44 (0) 1 223 332 662
Mobile: +44 (0) 7817 322 150
Email: ys267 [AT] cam.ac.uk


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