Contact
Email: <bmcfeeCSucsdEDU>Office: EBU3b 4142
Research Interests
machine learning • music information retrieval • convex optimization • recommendation systems • multiple kernel learning • perceptual modeling • human computation gamesPhotos
Brian McFee
Ph.D. CandidateAdvisor: Gert Lanckriet
Computer Audition Laboratory • Artificial Intelligence Group
Computer Science & Engineering • UC San Diego
Research
UCSD Multiple Kernel Learning Repository, 2009.
McFee, B. and Lanckriet, G. Heterogeneous embedding for subjective artist similarity. Tenth International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference, 2009. Best presentation award. [bib|poster|data]
McFee, B. and Lanckriet, G. Partial order embedding with multiple kernels. Twenty-sixth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2009. [bib|poster|slides]
McFee, B. Distance metric learning from pairwise proximities. UCSD CSE Research exam, 2008. [slides]
Ettinger, E., McFee, B., Shivappa, S., and Freund, Y. Automatic Cameraman. Neural Information Processing Systems Demo Session, 2007. [poster]
Ettinger, E., McFee, B., and Freund, Y. Pinpoint: Identifying packet loss culprits using adaptive sampling. UCSD Technical Report, 2007.
Education
M.S. in computer science and engineering, UC San Diego, 2008
B.S. in computer science, minor in computer engineering, UC Santa Cruz, 2003
A.A. in mathematics, College of Marin, 2001
TA
| CSE 3 | Fluency in information technology |
| CSE 20 | Discrete mathematics |
| CSE 21 | Mathematics for algorithms and systems |
| CSE 100 | Advanced data structures |
| CSE 101 | Design and analysis of algorithms |
| CSE 105 | Theory of computation |
| CSE 151 | Introduction to artificial intelligence |
Software
| Traveling Salesmix | Python script for generating intelligent mixtapes |
| CiviCRM | Open source constituent relationship management |
| CBView | CBR/CBZ comic book viewer |
| RIPoff | RIPscript viewer and converter |