Amr Ahmed, PhD (CMU)

 

Google Research Scientist

Email: amahmed AT CS DOT CMU DOT EDU

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 am now a Google Research Scientist after spending a year at Yahoo! Research. I got my Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University working with Prof. Eric Xing in the Sailing Lab.

My PhD thesis ( defense sildes, proposal sildes ) received the ACM SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award

My random walk in the world is [Cairo → Magdeburg → Cairo → Urbana-Champaign → Pittsburgh→ Santa Clara→ Mountain View] 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 won a best paper (runner-up) at WSDM 2012 [Relevant tutorial video]

● 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 [Video]

● 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: ICML 2013 WWW 2013 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.

 

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