Amr Ahmed, PhD - School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Research Scientist

Yahoo! Research

About Me

Hi! Thanks for stopping by my always €–approximate webpage. As we all know, completing a webpage is an NP-Complete problem, hence, I don’t aspire to do that in a reasonable time unless P=NP;  Q.E.D.  (if you buy this argument, you need to look here)

I moved to work as a Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research, Santa Clara office since June 2011. I was a Ph.D. student in the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.  I worked with Prof. Eric Xing. My random walk in the world is [Cairo → Magdeburg → Cairo → Urbana-Champaign → Pittsburgh → Santa Clara] I am sure that this is not Markovian! I got my BSc. And MSc. in Computer Engineering from Cairo University. I then moved to start my PhD in the Department of Computer Science at the University of  Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I spent two years at UIUC and then transfered to CMU and got my Phd in 2011.

Last Updated Jan 2009

Recent News

● Our paper, Scalable Inference in Latent Variable Models was awarded a runner-up best paper award at WSDM 2012.

● WWW 2012 Tutorial On , New Templates for Scalable Data Analysis, with Alexander J. Smola, and Markus Weimer.

● NIPS 2011 Tutorial On , Graphical Models for the Internet, with Alexander J. Smola.

● WWW 2011 Tutorial On , Latent Variable Models for the Internet, with Alexander J. Smola.

● Our SLIF team is a finalist (4 out of 70 teams) in the Elsevier Grand Challenge  (read CMU News article)

● I used to co-organize the CMU Machine Learning Lunch seminar (2008-2010).

● I TA’ed the Fall 2008 Probabilistic Graphical Model class.

Professional Actitivites

● Program committee: NIPS 2012 ICML 2012 WWW 2012 NIPS 2011 , ICML 2011,AISTAS 2011, WWW 2010,UAI 2009, EMNLP 2008,EMNLP 2009

● Reviewer:  ICML (2006), UAI (2008), NIPS (2007, 2008, 2009,2010), SDM (2007),EMNLP (2007), AAAI (2008)

● Journal Reviewer: ACM computing Surveys, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Transaction of Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

 

Mailing Address:

 

Amr Ahmed

School of Computer Science

Carnegie Mellon University

Gates Hillman Complex 5407, LTI

Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

Campus Coordinates

 

Office: GHC 6605

Email: amahmed AT CS DOT CMU DOT EDU