Umar Syed
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania
461 Levine Hall
3330 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389
Email: usyed@cis.upenn.edu
Curriculum Vitae | Penn Research in Machine Learning (PRiML)
Research Interests
My interests are in the intersection of machine learning and game theory. I am supervised by Ben Taskar and Michael Kearns.
Publications
- Syed, U., Slivkins, A., Mishra, N. Adapting to the shifting intent of search queries. To appear at NIPS 2009.
- Syed, U., Bowling, M., Schapire, R. E. (2008) Apprenticeship learning using linear programming. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2008).
- Syed, U., Williams, J. D. (2008) Using automatically transcribed dialogs to learn user models in a spoken dialog system. Proceedings of the Forty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2008).
- Syed, U., Yona, G. (2008) Enzyme function prediction with interpretable models. Methods in Molecular Biology: Computational Systems Biology, edited by J. McDermott, K. Montgomery, R. Bumgarner and R. Samudrala. Humana Press. [Book chapter]
- Syed, U., Schapire, R. E. (2008) A game-theoretic approach to apprenticeship learning. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20 (NIPS 2007). Supplement.
- Syed, U., Schapire, R. E. (2007) Imitation learning with a value-based prior. Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence: Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Conference (UAI 2007).
- Syed, U., Yona, G. (2003) Using a mixture of probabilistic decisions trees for direct prediction of protein function. Proceedings of the Seventh Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Biology (RECOMB 2003).