News
July 25, 2006
Congratulations to Dr. Qianjun Xu for having the final copy of her dissertation signed and handed off to the graduate school!
May 26, 2006
Congratulations to Qianjun Xu, who successfully defended her dissertation today!
April 2, 2006
The latest excitement in the lab:
- Eric Eaton was accepted for the AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium, to be held in conjunction with AAAI this summer. This event becomes more competitive every year, and is a great opportunity for Eric to present his new ideas on multiresolution learning.
- Marie received notification that her NSF CAREER proposal was accepted. This is a very prestigious award for junior faculty members, and the funding will support continued research on organizational learning in multi-agent systems..
- Two papers were recently accepted to competitive conferences: Marie, Penny Rheingans, and several students have a paper on the redistricting project in IAAI-06, and Marie, Eric, and Kiri Wagstaff have a joint paper on learning preferences over sets in ICML-06.
November 28, 2005
Congratulations to the following recent student accomplishments:
- Matt Gaston successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on November 14, making him the first Ph.D. student to graduate from the MAPLE lab. The fall graduate commencement ceremony will be held on December 22 -- come see me hood Matt!
- Mike Smith passed his preliminary examination on November 21, and will advance to candidacy for the Ph.D.
- Eric Eaton successfully defended his M.S. thesis on November 28, and will receive his M.S. degree in December.
Also, a belated congratulations to Qianjun Xu for receiving the first annual Carl Smith Award for the best student paper in Discovery Science'05.
May 2, 2005
The following papers were all accepted in the last couple of weeks:
- Matthew E. Gaston and Marie desJardins, "Agent-organized networks for multi-agent production and exchange." AAAI (paper presentation).
- Marie desJardins and Kiri Wagstaff, "DD-PREF: A language for expressing preferences over sets." AAAI (poster presentation).
- Michael J. Smith and Marie desJardins, " A Model for Competence and Integrity in Variable Payoff Games." AAMAS-05 Workshop on Trust in Multiagent Systems.
- Balaji Viswanathan and Marie desJardins, " A
Model for Large-Scale Team Formation for a Disaster
Rescue Problem."AAMAS-05 Workshop on the Coordination
of Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems
(LSMAS 2005).
Way to go!
December 5, 2004
Qianjun passed her preliminary exam today, and will advance to candidacy after the paperwork works its way through the bureaucracy. Congratulations!
September 3, 2004
After passing his preliminary exam on August 30, Matt Gaston was officially advanced to candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Matt is the first MAPLE student to advance to candidacy. Congratulations!
August 12, 2004
Yan passed her Master's Thesis defense today! Congratulations to her! Unlike another recent Master's recipient, who lied about Disney Land, Yan really will travel to California for a relaxing vacation before returning home to China.
August 6, 2004
Mithun Sheshagiri passed his Master's thesis defense and will graduate this semester. Congratulations!
April 30, 2004
Priyang successfully defended his Master's Thesis today and passed! Congratulations, Priyang! When asked what he was going to do next, he replied, "I'm going to Disney Land!" When asked what he was most looking forward to, he replied, "sleeping." Those interested in occupying his soon-to-be-empty desk should send their bribes and gifts directly to Priyang.
April 29, 2004
Congratulations to Priyang and Marie for having the following paper accepted to the AAAI 2004 Workshop on Forming and Maintaining Coalitions in Adaptive Multiagent Systems, which will be held in San Jose, CA, in August:
Priyang Rathod and
Marie desJardins
"Stable Team Formation Among Self-Interested Agents"
Also, congratulations to Qianjun, Eric, and Marie for submitting the following papers to the 2004 European Conference on Machine Learning:
Qianjun
Xu, Marie desJardins, Eric Eaton, and Kiri Wagstaff
"Efficient SVM-Based Preference Learning"
Eric Eaton and Marie desJardins
"Learning Multiple Concepts Online with an Ensemble of Classifiers"
Those on the VisARD project have been busy publishing, so congratulations to Poonam, Penny, Tim, and Marie for submitting the following papers:
"Visualizing Change in Attributes of Relational Data Graphs Over Time" (Submitted to InfoVis'04)
"Visualizing Multi-Valued and Uncertain Attributes Using Glyphs"
(Submitted to Vis'04)
January 16, 2004
Undergraduate Research Position Open (This position has been filled)
Dr. desJardins is looking for one or two CMSC undergraduates to work on an NSF-funded research project. The project, which is a collaborative effort with Dr. Kiri Wagstaff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, is investigating ways to incorporate background knowledge into machine learning techniques. Our current application areas are classifying and clustering sky catalog data, and identifying earth-science images for downloading across a limited-bandwidth channel. Involvement with the project could be through an independent study project (499) or as a paid hourly position.
Minimal qualifications are:
- Junior or senior standing (preferably graduating December 2004 or May 2005)
- A GPA of at least 3.5
Strongly preferred qualifications are:
- An A in CMSC 341
- CMSC 441 and 471
- Some background in astronomy
If you are interested in learning more about the project, the MAPLE Lab, or applying for a position, please contact Dr. desJardins by e-mail, or phone (410-455-3967), or stop by ITE 337 if her door is open.
December 17, 2003
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