Brian Kulis

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX

I am a fifth-year doctoral student at UT Austin. I finished my undergraduate education in May, 2003 with a B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Cornell University.

During the Fall 2007 semester, I was a research fellow at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at U.C.L.A.

Research Interests

My advisor is Inderjit Dhillon. A major focus of my research is on large-scale optimization for problems in machine learning; some specific interests include convex analysis, kernel methods, spectral methods, semi-definite programming, and numerical linear algebra. Furthermore, I am interested in large-scale applications of machine learning to practical problems in computer vision and bioinformatics. I have also worked with John Platt and Arun Surendran at Microsoft Research on large-scale optimization. As an undergraduate, I worked with John Hopcroft on tracking topics in networked data over time.

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Here is my CV.

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Contact Info

Office: Taylor 137

Phone: 512-471-9741