Name:                   L. Douglas Baker


e-mail address:         ldbapp@cs.cmu.edu
Web page:               http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ldbapp
Office Phone:           (412) 683-6036
Office Address:         Wean Hall, 8102
                        School of Computer Science
                        Carnegie Mellon University
                        5000 Forbes Avenue
                        Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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Objective:

   A position in a dynamic, highly-skilled applied research and 
     development team using statistical machine learning to solve 
     large-scale, real-world tasks such as Information Retrieval and 
     Text Classification.


Education:

   Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
       Ph.D., Computer Science, in progress
       M.S.,  Computer Science, 1999

   Technical University of Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
       Exchange Fellow, 1992-1993

   University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
       M.S.E.,  Computer Science and Engineering, 1994
       B.S.E.,  Computer Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, 1992



Research experience:

   Carnegie Mellon University (1994-present)
      I am currently pursuing my dissertation research:  a hierarchical
      probabilistic model for novelty detection in text.  This work is being
      done as part of the Topic Detection and Tracking project at CMU, under
      the direction of Yiming Yang.  The goal is to automatically identify
      new classes of data and to augment a classification model to
      incorporate the new classes.  One of the challenges of this project
      is the large amount of data that must be handled but yet with only a small
      amount of data from which a system can learn.

      I have worked on neural networks with Scott Fahlman.  My research into
      using neural nets for Chinese character recognition piqued my interest
      in language modelling.  In collaboration with Andrew McCallum, we
      developed a word clustering algorithm (first publication below).

   University of Michigan (1992) 
      I was one of 4 team leaders in an interdisciplinary design group comprised
      of computer, electrical, mechanical and aerospace engineers, atmospheric
      and natural resource scientists, and chemists.  We developed a preliminary
      design of an autonomous remotely-piloted aircraft for low-altitude remote
      atmospheric sensing.  I led the development of the autonomous navigation
      system.

   Artificial Intelligence Lab., U. Michigan. (1990-1994)
      I worked with Prof. Terry Weymouth on mobile robotics.  I implemented
      a command interface for controlling mobile robots over the internet,
      and I parallelized an single-camera depth perception algorithm for use
      on Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Hermies III mobile robot.  I worked
      with Dr. Weymouth and Dave Kortenkamp on mobile robot navigation
      (third publication below).  I also participated in the design and
      assembly of a robot for the AAAI '92 Robot Competition (second
      publication below).



Publications:

   L. Douglas Baker, Andrew McCallum. 1998. "Distributional Clustering of
       Words for Text Classification".  Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGIR
       Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
       (SIGIR '98), pp. 96-103.

   M. Huber, C. Bidlack, D. Kortenkamp, K. Mangis, L. Douglas Baker, A. Wu,
       T. Weymouth.  1993.  "Computer Vision for CARMEL", in Mobile Robots VII,
       W. Wolfe, W. Chun (editors), Proc. SPIE 1831, pp. 144-155.

   Dave Kortenkamp, L. Douglas Baker, Terry Weymouth.  1992.  "Using
       Gateways to Build a Route Map", Proc. of the 1992 IEEE Conference
       on Intelligent Robots and Systems.


Teaching Experience:
   Teaching Fellow, Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, 1997--present
   Adjunct Language Instructor, Intercultural Communications Center,
      1998--present
   Staff of NSF Microteaching Workshop, summer 1999.
   Teaching Assistant, Advanced Artificial Intelligence, 2000
   Recitation Instructor, Fundamentals of Computer Science, 1996, 1997


Professional activities:
   Organizing Committee, Neural Information Processing Systems Conference,
      Webmaster, 1997-2000

Work and programming experience:

   Justsystem Corp., Programmer, Tokushima, Japan, Summer 1995
      The design and implementation of a parallel version of the Cascade 2
      neural network training algorithm for use in voice recognition.

   Intel Corp., Programmer, Portland, OR, Summer 1994
      Compiler optimizations, tuning, and performance measurement for the
      Pentium II microprocessor.

   Intel Corp., Programmer, Portland, OR, Summer 1992
      Testing and debugging of a parallel programming environment (OS,
      compilers) for Intel's iWarp supercomputer.

   Environmental Research Inst. of Michigan, Research Intern (co-op)
      January - August, 1991

      Design and implementation of an autonomous security robot, tutoring
      software for the visually impaired, and database compression software
      for an automatic mail-processing system.


   Experienced in C, C++, Perl, LISP, MATLAB, HTML/CGI.


Honors:

   Cooley Writing Contest Award, University of Michigan, 1990
   Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship, U. Mich., 1990
   Departmental Senior Scholar, U. Mich. EECS Dept., 1992
   National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1993--1996.
   Graduate Teaching Award, hon. mention, Carnegie Mellon Univ., 1996.
   Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Center, Graduate Student Intern, 1996-1999


Other Activities:

   Growing Bonsai Trees, Painting
   Playing Trombone, Building Furniture
   Racquetball, Running