Carlton Downey

Ph.D Student

Machine Learning Department
Carnegie Mellon University

Advisors

Geoff Gordon
and Stephen Fienberg

Email

cmdowney@cs.cmu.edu

Office

GHC 8007

Address

5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213

I'm a second year Ph.D student in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University. My advisors are Geoff Gordon and Stephen Feinberg. I work on a number projects supported by the Living Analytics Research Center (LARC). I'm also a member of the SELECT lab.

I'm a native of Wellington, New Zealand. Prior to Grad School I completed an undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Mathematics at Victoria University of Wellington. When I get the chance I spend my free time on Badminton, Ultimate Frisbee, and Ballroom Dance.

My research interests include, but are not limited to: Machine Learning, Optimization, Reinforcement Learning, Information Theory, Spectral Algorithms, and Spectral Graph Theory.

• Carlton Downey, Mengjie Zhang. Caching for Parallel Linear Genetic Programming. Proceeding of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. GECCO (Companion) 2011, ACM Press. pp. 201-202.
• Carlton Downey, Mengjie Zhang. Execution Trace Caching for Linear Genetic Programming. Proceeding of the 2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Press. New Orleans, USA. June 5-8, 2011. pp. 1191-1198.
• Carlton Downey, Mengjie Zhang. Parallel Linear Genetic Programming. Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Genetic Programming. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 6621. Springer. Torino, Italy 2011. pp. 178-189. (Nominated for the Best Paper Award)
• Carlton Downey, Scott Sanner. Temporal Difference Bayesian Model Averaging: A Bayesian Perspective on Adapting Lambda. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-10); Haifa, Israel
• Carlton Downey, Mengjie Zhang, Will Browne. New Crossover Operators in Linear Genetic Programming for Multiclass Object Classification. Proceedings of 2010 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. Portland, USA. 2010. ACM.
• Carlton Downey, Mengjie Zhang. Multiclass Object Classification for Computer Vision using Linear Genetic Programming. Proceeding of the 24th International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand. Wellington, 2009. IEEE Press. pp. 73-78.