Wray Buntine

This Page contains:

• Teaching and Tutorials
• Research
• Conference plans
• Contact

See also Papers, talks and tutorials by Wray Buntine.

Teaching and Tutorials:

For a list of recent tutorials presented, most information available in Postscript, see my references page, and the conference plans below. I teach a class at Stanford University, CS354 on Probabilistic Computing in the odd years. For a list of some really great tutorials and review articles in my area, see the AUAI Tutorials.

Research:

Research areas are:

• Learning (statistics, neural networks, discovery, theory)
• Software environments for learning
• Prototyping tools for learning
• Probabilistic modeling
• Unification and applied theory for the above.

For more information see Papers, talks and tutorials by Wray Buntine.

On the editorial board for the Machine Learning Journal, the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, the Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery and the Journal of Neural Computing Surveys. Active member of several communities including Machine Learning, Uncertainty in AI, Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, Neural Networks and Knowledge Discovery.

Conference plans (recent past and future):

• 50th Session of the International Statistical Institute, in Beijing, 24-27th August, 1995. Presenting an invited paper Networks for Learning.
• NIPS 95 Workshop on Learning in Bayesian Networks and Other Graphical Models, December 1-2, 1995, Veil, Colorado, presenting "the final word" on Compiling Probabilistic Networks and Some Questions This Poses.
• 1996 AAAI Spring Symposium Computational Issues in Learning Models of Dynamical Systems presenting a version of the NIPS-95 talk, March 25-27, 1996, at Stanford University.
• 12th Conference on Uncertainty in AI (UAI-96) on August 1-3, 1996, Portland, Oregon. Presenting a section on Real-world Application of Learning Methods at Full-Day Course on Uncertain Reasoning
• ASA Section on Bayesian Statistical Sciences at 1996 Joint Statistical Meetings, Chicago, August 4th-8th, 1996, acting as discussant for section on Bayesian Graphical Modelling.
• Presenting tutorials at the Learning in Graphical Models, A NATO Advanced Study Institute, at the Ettore Majorana Centre, Erice, Sicily, 27 September - 7 October 1996.
• Panel on "Information Exploration Shootout" at IEEE Visualization '96, San Francisco, October 31st, 1996.

Contact:

While my office is in Cory Hall, I sometimes work in Palo Alto. I'm in frequent email contact, and prior appointments essential.

• E-mail: wray@ic.eecs.berkeley.edu
• Phone: (510) 642 5048 or (415) 324-3447
• Fax: (510) 643-5052
• Post: EECS Dept., Room 520 Cory Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1770