Reza Zadeh

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Computational Mathematics at Stanford. I received a masters from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Before that I completed a bachelors at the University of Waterloo. During undergrad I worked at Google Research.

Currently interested in Discrete Applied Mathematics, Machine Learning Theory and Applications, Natural Language Processing, and Social Networks.

Reviewer for JMLR, PRJ, and ECML PKDD.

At NIPS 2009 I coorganized a Workshop on Clustering Theory.

This summer I will be at Twitter working with the relevance team.

Research

Clustering Theory Workshop with
Shai Ben-David, Ulrike von Luxburg, Avrim Blum, Robert C. Williamson, Isabelle Guyon, Reza Bosagh Zadeh, Margareta Ackerman.

Supervised Clustering [pdf] [poster] [slides] [video]
Pranjal Awasthi, Reza Bosagh Zadeh
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2010). (Acceptance rate: 24%)

A Uniqueness Theorem for Clustering [pdf] [slides]
Reza Bosagh Zadeh, Shai Ben-David
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2009). (Acceptance rate: 27%)

What's in a Move? Normal Disruption and a Design Challenge [pdf] [slides]
Reza Bosagh Zadeh, Sara Kiesler, Aruna Balakrishnan, Jonathan Cummings
Computer Human Interaction (CHI 2011). (Acceptance rate: 26%)

Research Team Integration: What It Is and Why It Matters [pdf]
Aruna Balakrishnan, Sara Kiesler, Jonathan Cummings, Reza Bosagh Zadeh
Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2011). (Acceptance rate: 26%)

Teaching

CME 200: Linear Algebra with Applications [graduate course][details]
Instructor: Margot Gerritsen, Fall 2011, Stanford

CME 305: Discrete Mathematics and Algorithms [graduate course][details]
Instructor: Amin Saberi, Winter 2012, Stanford

Other stuff I did before

Twitter, Research Intern, Summer 2011, San Francisco, California
Graph Completion for Who To Follow, large scale machine learning, random walks for spam detection.

Carnegie Mellon University, Master of Computer Science, 2008 - 2010, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Travel Award to NIPS 2009 and UAI 2009. GPA 4.0.

Morgan Stanley, Financial Engineering Intern, Jan 2008 - May 2008, Manhattan, New York
Implemented models for Credit Derivatives pricing.

Google, Research Intern, Jan 2006 - Aug 2007, Mountain View, California
Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) alignment models. Query by Humming. Language modelling for SMT. Large scale machine learning.

IBM, Software Engineer Intern, May 2005 - Sep 2005, Toronto, Ontario
iSeries Development Studio team. Built plugins for Eclipse and WDSC.

University of Waterloo, Bachelor of Mathematics, Honors Computer Science, 2004 - 2008, Waterloo, Ontario
Graduated with Distinction on Dean's Honor list. Awarded several Undergraduate Research Assistantships. GPA 92% (=4.0).

Useful

Generate a uniform random prefactored number in [1,n], for large n, in O(log^2(n)) primality tests: PrefactoredRandom.java.

A corpus of the Federal Open Market Committee meetings from 1967 to 2008: fomc_minutes.rar.

Predicting Market-Volatility from Federal Reserve Board Meeting Minutes [pdf] [slides] [corpus]

Unsupervised Approaches to Sequence Tagging, Morphology Induction, and Lexical Resource Acquisition [pdf] [slides] [discussion]

Links

• Lived at International House of New York
• Competed in Waterloo ACM Programming Contests
• Always read Journal of Machine Learning Research
• High School: Chislehurst & Sidcup Grammar School in London, England
• High School: Thornhill Secondary School in Toronto, Canada
• Climbing: Stanford Climbing Wall
• Flying: Bay Area from Above

Misc.

twitter · facebook · linkedin · pictures

Erdős number: 3 | Bacon number: 3 | Erdős-Bacon number: 6 [details].

Cities I have lived in:
UK: London (England) | USA: New York (NY), Pittsburgh (PA), Mountain View (CA), Palo Alto (CA) | Canada: Toronto, Waterloo | Iran: Tehran, Ahvaz

Order travelled. City [duration spent]:
Ahvaz [8y] → London [5y] → Tehran [2y] → London [2y] → Toronto [1y] → Waterloo [8m] → Toronto [4m] → Waterloo [4m] → Mountain View [4m] → Waterloo [4m] → Mountain View [4m] → Waterloo [4m] → Mountain View [4m] → Waterloo [4m] → New York [4m] → Waterloo [4m] → Pittsburgh [2y] → Palo Alto [?].