Padhraic Smyth
Chancellor's Professor
Department of Computer Science
Department of Statistics
School of Information and Computer Sciences
University of California, Irvine
- Director/Principal Investigator, NSF Graduate Traineeship Program (NRT/MAPS)
- Associate Director, Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems
- Member and Past Director, UCI Data Science Initiative
- Member, Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences
Selected Recent Papers
- Bayesian trees for automated cytometry analysis
with Disi Ji, Eric Nalisnick, Yu Qian, Richard Scheuermann, Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference (MLHC), 2018 - Learning priors for invariance
with Eric Nalisnick, Proceedings of the International Conference on AI and Statistics, 2018 -
Science and data science (opinion article)
with David Blei, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017 -
Bayesian detection of changepoints in finite-state Markov chains for multiple sequences
with Petter Arnesen, Tracy Hoslclaw, Technometrics, 2016 -
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 -
Modeling human location data with mixtures of kernel densities
with Moshe Lichman, ACM SIGKDD Conference, 2014
Teaching