Padhraic Smyth
Chancellor's Professor
Department of Computer Science
Department of Statistics
School of Information and Computer Sciences
University of California, Irvine
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Research Interests: machine learning, pattern recognition, statistics
Director,
UCI Data Science Initiative
Associate Director,
Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems
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Smyth Research Group (the Datalab)
Recent and current projects in our group
Selected Recent Papers (see also publications on
Google Scholar)
- Learning priors for invariance,
with Eric Nalisnick, Proceedings of the International Conference on AI and Statistics, 2018
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Science and data science (opinion article),
with David Blei, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017
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Bayesian detection of changepoints in finite-state Markov chains for multiple sequences,
with Petter Arnesen, Tracy Hoslclaw, Technometrics, 2016
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Content coding of psychotherapy transcripts using labeled topic models,
with Garren Gaut, Mark Steyvers, Dave Atkins, Zac Imel,
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2015
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Modeling human location data with mixtures of kernel densities,
with Moshe Lichman, ACM SIGKDD Conference, 2014
Recent Teaching