Organizers & Contact Information

The organizers have established a mailing list for the Physiological Data Modeling contest and workshop. To subscribe to the list, send an email to pdmc_ml-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. Interested participants should join the mailing list and send an email to the list immediately.

David Andre, co-chair
Director of Informatics,
Bodymedia, Inc.
4 Smithfield St, 12th Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
ph: (412)-288-9901 x1002  fax (412)-288-9902
cell: 412-559-4426
email: dandre AT bodymedia DOT com
http://www.davidandre.com

David Andre (Director of Informatics, BodyMedia Inc.) directs the team at BodyMedia responsible for collecting and analyzing clinical data, creating machine learning models of that data, and developing algorithms that provide high level metrics over that data (e.g. predicting energy expenditure or detecting sleep).  He received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science where his dissertation focused on hierarchical methods for automatic behavior acquisition.  Dr. Andre also co-founded Blue Pumpkin Software, which makes call center scheduling software.    He has 12 years of experience in machine learning and artificial intelligence, is the author of more than 60 peer-reviewed articles and papers, holds seven patents, and has been a Hertz fellow since 1999.



Peter Stone, co-chair
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station C0500
Austin, Texas 78712-0233
ph: (512) 471-9796 fax: (512) 471-8885
office: 4.122 Taylor Hall
email: pstone AT cs DOT utexas DOT edu
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~pstone

Dr. Peter Stone is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.  He received his Ph.D. in 1998 and his M.S. in 1995 from Carnegie Mellon University, both in Computer Science.  He received his B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1993.  From 1999 to 2002 he was a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Artificial Intelligence Principles Research Department at AT&T Labs - Research.  Peter's research interests include planning, machine learning, multiagent systems, robotics, and e-commerce.  His doctoral thesis research contributed a flexible multiagent team structure and multiagent machine learning techniques for teams operating in real-time noisy environments in the presence of both teammates and adversaries.  He is currently continuing his investigation of multiagent learning at UT Austin.



Maxence Crossley
Informatics Programmer
BodyMedia Inc.
4 Smithfield St.
12th Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
412.288.9901 x1008
email: max AT bodymedia DOT com
http://www.bodymedia.com

Maxence Crossley is the newest member of the Informatics group at BodyMedia. He received his A.B. in Computer Science from Dartmouth College in 2002 and his B.E. in Computer Engineering from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College in 2003.  His interests include machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics and Ultimate Frisbee.




Alexander Sherstov
Department of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station C0500
Austin, Texas 78712-0233
ph: (512) 471-9796 fax: (512) 471-8885
email: sherstov AT cs DOT utexas DOT edu
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~sherstov

Alexander Sherstov is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.  He received his B.S. in Computer Science from Hope College, MI, in 2003.  His research interests include multi-agent systems, machine learning, and e-commerce.