Transcript 100708-minSabbaticalUpdate

Sabbatical Report
Min-Yen Kan
July 2010
Zion /
Bryce
Canyon
Bay
Area
Death
Valley
Las
Vegas
Drove about 5000 mi in
30 days.
For reference see SG
in bottom left.
L.A.
Irvine
San
Diego
Grand
Canyon
Sabbatical
• 3 months in 2009, 6 months in 2010
• April – May 2010: hosting family
• Spent most of 2010 working on your papers and
writing proposals
• Interacting with various PIs in UCI
– Sharad Mehrotra: Data cleaning toolkit
– Nalini Venkatsubramanian: Duke-NUS text mining
proposal
– Ramesh Jain: Personal Photo summarization
* Chen Li: TASTIER toolkit for FC(N)
Sharad Mehrotra
• PhD students: Pouria Pirzadeh, Rabia NurayTuran
• To create a toolkit for data cleaning that can
capture workflows for cleaning
• Plan to have this optimizable for later learning
Nalini Venkatsubramanian
• Wrote joint proposal with NUS-Duke PI
Ricardo Pietrobon
• To do text mining of clinical articles and then
disseminate this information to appropriate
parties
• Nalini is working on dissemination portion
Ramesh Jain
• PhD student: Pinaki Singha
• To create a personal photographic dataset for
community study
Baby on board
• Alicia and I are expecting a baby boy in Sep!