Joseph Reisinger
joeraii@cs.utexas.edu
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~joeraii
Education

08/05 - 05/10
Pursuing a PhD in Computer Sciences (Machine Learning)
The University of Texas at Austin. Advisor: Ray Mooney.
Tentative Thesis: Nonparametric Bayesian Approaches to Structured Information Extraction

12/07
Masters of Science in Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin. Game theory minor sequence.

05/04
Bachelors of Science in Computer Sciences (with honors)
Bachelors of Science in Mathematics (with honors)
The University of Texas at Austin. 3.9 GPA. Computer Sciences Departmental Honors. Minor in Japanese.
Thesis: Modular Reuse and Problem Decomposition with Neuro-Evolution
Selected Research Experience

05/09 -
Research Intern, Google Inc.
Exploring large scale machine learning approaches for ads quality; particularly structured latent-variable models of domain adaptation.

06/07 - 08/07
06/08 - 11/08
Research Intern, Google Inc.
Developed a nonparametric Bayesian approach for instrumenting WordNet with automatically extracted attributes.

05/04 - 08/05
05/03 - 08/03
Intern, IBM Research (T.J. Watson Lab, Tokyo Yamato Lab)
Worked in the Human Language Technologies group on conversational dialog systems, specifically developing structured classification algorithms for approximating shallow parsers.

08/03 - 05/04
Research Assistant, UT Artificial Intelligence Lab
Appointment to work on Topographica, a high-level cortex simulator for assisting Neuroscience research. Participated mainly in the early system design stages.

05/02 - 05/03
06/01 - 08/01
Intern, Austin Info Systems
Developed distributed algorithms for visualizing large data sets.
Grants, Awards and Honors

03/09
Google Research Award
Grant for "Unsupervised Induction of Semantic Lexicons Handling Both Synonymy and Polysemy" with Ray Mooney.

07/07
Best Paper Award, Generative and Developmental Systems (GECCO 2007)

04/06 -
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

09/06
UT David Bruton, Jr. Graduate Fellowship

08/05
UT College of Natural Sciences Dean's Excellence Award

08/05 - 05/06
UT Microelectronics and Computer Development Fellowship
Candidates must rank within the top 10% of all students in their respective disciplines.

01/04
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Computing Research Association award for outstanding research potential.

08/03 - 05/04
NSF VIGRE Award
Grant through the Mathematics department for work on "Pareto optimal decompositions of coevolutionary objectives."
Refereed Publications
Conferences
Joseph Reisinger and Marius Pasca (2009). Latent Variable Models of Concept-Attribute Attachment. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2009).
Partha Pratim Talukdar, Joseph Reisinger, Marius Pasca, Deepak Ravichandran, Rahul Bhagat and Fernando Pereira (2008). Weakly-Supervised Acquisition of Labeled Class Instances using Graph Random Walks, Proceedings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2008).
Joseph Reisinger, Peter Stone and Risto Miikkulainen (2008). Online Kernel Selection for Bayesian Reinforcement Learning, Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2008).
Joseph Reisinger and Risto Miikkulainen (2007). Acquiring Evolvability through Adaptive Representations, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2007). Best Paper Award.
Joseph Reisinger, Erkin Bahceci, Igor Karpov and Risto Miikkulainen (2007). Coevolving Strategies for General Game Playing, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG-2007).
Joseph Reisinger and Risto Miikkulainen (2006). Selecting for Evolvable Representations, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2006).
Joseph Reisinger, Kenneth O. Stanley and Risto Miikkulainen (2004). Evolving Reusable Neural Modules. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2004, Seattle, WA), New York, NY: Springer-Verlag.
Workshops and Posters
Joseph Reisinger and Marius Pasca (2009). Bootstrapped Extraction of Class Attributes. Proceedings of the 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW-2009).
Joseph Reisinger and Marius Pasca (2009). Low-Cost Supervision for Multiple-Source Attribute Extraction. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLING-2009).
Joseph Reisinger and Risto Miikkulainen (2006). Evolvability in Developmental Systems. Proceedings of the 2006 AAAI Fall Symposium on Developmental Systems. Technical Report FS-06-03.
Joseph Reisinger, Kenneth Owen Stanley and Risto Miikkulainen (2005). Towards an Empirical Measure of Evolvability, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005) Workshop Program.
Joseph Reisinger, Mahesh Viswanathan and Liam Comerford (2005). Conversational Assistant for In-car Task Management. Proceedings of the 2005 AAAI Spring Symposium on Persistent Assistants (Stanford, CA). Technical Report SS-05-05. 129-136.
Kenneth O. Stanley, Joseph Reisinger, and Risto Miikkulainen (2004). Exploiting Morphological Conventions for Genetic Reuse, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2004) Workshop Program. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 2004.
Academic Service
UT AI Lab Steering Committee (2009+)
Co-organizer of the Forum for Artificial Intelligence (2008+)
Reviewer for Machine Learning Journal (2008)
Program Committee Member for the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (2007-2009)
Reviewer for Artificial Life (2007-2008)
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (2007-2008)
Reviewer for Neurocomputing (2007)
Teaching Experience

01/09 -
TA for CS336H Analysis of Programs Honors (discrete math)

09/08-12/08
TA for CS388 Graduate Natural Language Processing
Patents
Dimitri Kanevsky, Joseph Reisinger, Roberto Sicconi and Mahesh Viswanathan (2005). Hierarchical methods and apparatus for extracting user intent from spoken utterances. International Business Machines Corporation. United States Patent 20070055529.
Open Source Projects

08/05 - 12/06
pytw
Developed a Python and Javascript (AJAX) based CGI backend for TiddlyWiki. Over 8000 downloads.

04/00 - 05/04
Mizore
Developed code (C++) for modeling neuronal development.
Diversions

09/08 -
UTCS Events Committee

10/05
joeraii-Wiz-Elf-Mal-Cha ascended to demigod-hood. (12465514 points)

05/04 -
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society Lifetime Member

01/01 - 01/03
VP Academics for the UT ACM. Organized an academic lecture series, faculty luncheons, peer tutoring, and programming competitions.