Welcome to Tim Miller's Computer Science homepage at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
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My schedule
Prior schooling
Publications
Research statement

Work

Summer 2008

Research internship at the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California.

Spring 2008

Research assistant in the NLP lab, working on probabilistic models of natural language, specifically syntactic models of speech repair, and psycholinguistically motivated models of syntactic processing.

Fall 2007

Teaching assistant for CSCI5541 - Natural Language Processing and CSCI5481 - Computational Techniques for Genomics.

Spring 2007

Teaching assistant for CSCI4041 - Algorithms and Data Structures.

Spring/Fall 2006

Research Assistant in NLP lab on denotational language models.

Spring/Summer/Fall 2005

Working in the NLP lab, supported by computational neuroscience fellowship.

Summer/Fall 2004

Supported by NSF-IGERT fellowship in computational neuroscience. Working in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) lab for Prof. William Schuler.

Spring 2004

IGERT Fellowship - Continuing work in the Soechting Lab on tracking smooth pursuit eye movements.

Fall 2003

Research Assistant for Professor John Soechting in the Neuroscience Department. He does research in motor control. My main task was working with Leigh Ann Mrotek on tracking and modeling smooth pursuit eye movements.

Coursework

Spring 2006

CSci 8980-3 - Topics in Machine Learning
Prof. Arindam Banerjee
Course project: I'm currently working with Ryan McCabe on an extension to previous work done by others in online learning in portfolio balancing. I'll post the final report here when it's completed.

NSci 5202 - Theoretical Neuroscience: Systems and Information Processing
Prof. A. David Redish
Course project: I gave a 1-hour talk on mirror neurons for this course.

Fall 2005

CSci 5541 - Natural Language Processing
Prof. William Schuler
Course project: I attempted to do multi-class phoneme classification using support vector machines, with the hopes of integrating it into a research speech interface in the NLP lab. The results were not too good.

CSci 5304 - Computational Aspects of Matrix Theory
Prof. Yousef Saad
Course project: For this course I used Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) to analyze the text of George W. Bush's speeches and press conferences in the "Iraq" section of the whitehouse.gov website. Specifically, I was attempting to quantify the effect that had been claimed by some that Bush was linking Iraq and Saddam Hussein to 9/11. I will post a copy of my report soon.

NSci 5561 - Systems Neuroscience
Prof. Christopher Honda
Course project: This course had no project component.

Spring 2005

CSci 5131 - Advanced Internet Programming
Prof. John Riedl

CSci 5980-4 - Programming Legged Robotics
Prof. Maria Gini
Course project: For this course I attempted to implement a speech sarcasm detector on the Sony Aibo platform. This was based on pragmatics research claiming that sarcastic utterances have detectable features in a speech signal. Results were positive, but testing was so rudimentary that I cannot make any claims about the system. This project was extremely successful and totally not a complete waste of my time (BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!).

NSci 5661 - Behavioral Neuroscience
Prof. Karen Mesce

Fall 2004

CSci 5481 - Computational Techniques for Genomics
Prof. George Karypis

NSci 5101 - Introduction to Neuroscience for Graduate Students
Prof. Paul Mermelstein and guests

Ling 8920 - Language and Cognition
Prof. Jeanette Gundel

Spring 2004

CSci 5302 - Analysis of Numerical Methods
Prof. Yousef Saad

CSci 5512 - Artificial Intelligence II
Prof. Maria Gini

CSci 5552 - Sensing and Estimation in Robotics
Prof. Stergios Roumeliotis

Fall 2003

CSci 5103 - Operating Systems
Prof. Jon Weissman

CSci 5521 - Pattern Recognition
Prof. Paul Schrater
Project: Automated attractiveness classification of human faces using Support Vector Machines and linear discriminants.
Click here for final report. (Sorry about format)

CSci 5551 - Introduction to Intelligent Robotics
Prof. Stergios Roumeliotis
Project: Autonomous parallel parking of a Pioneer I Robot.
Click here for a copy(~750k) of our report (teammates David Johnson and Huzefa Rangwala)