Jonathan Chung-Kuan Huang

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email: jch1@cs.cmu.edu
office: 210 Smith Hall
Robotics Institute
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
office phone: +412 268 9176
cell phone: +650 248 4441
 
 

About Me:

I am a fifth year Ph.D. student in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. My advisor is Carlos Guestrin and I'm also a part of the SELECT Lab run by Carlos Guestrin and Geoff Gordon. Before coming to CMU, I studied math at Stanford University. And before Stanford, I attended Oakton High School and for a time, also Lynbrook High School.

My "official" RI webpage is here.

Research Interests

My research goals revolve around developing efficient probabilistic reasoning algorithms. I am currently interested in reasoning with uncertainty over permutations. Permutations appear in a variety of real world problems ranging from data association problems in multiobject tracking, to ranking/voting applications. Unlike most discrete problems, permutations present a much more challenging problem for inference due to the fact that there are n! permutations. Due to the enormous domain sizes involved, many approaches are inspired by methods for working with continuous distributions. In my thesis work, I have been developing Fourier theoretic methods which have led to principled and efficient approximate algorithms for reasoning with permutations.

Finally, I am also interested in a number of related areas such as learning and inference in graphical models and dynamical systems, nonparametric Hilbert space embeddings of probability distributions, as well as computer vision applications of machine learning. For your viewing pleasure, here is a wordle generated from abstracts of my recent papers:

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