Samory Kpotufe

E-mail: skpotufe@cs.<university domain>
Office: 4142 EBU3B
I work on machine learning.
My Ph.D. advisor is Prof. Sanjoy Dasgupta.

Research

Samory Kpotufe. Escaping the curse of dimensionality with a tree-based regressor. Conference on Learning Theory (COLT) 2009. Winner of the Mark Fulk Best Student Paper at COLT 09. [pdf|slides]

Nakul Verma, Samory Kpotufe, Sanjoy Dasgupta. Which spatial partition trees are adaptive to intrinsic dimension? Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 2009. [pdf|poster]

Samory Kpotufe. Fast, smooth and adaptive regression in metric spaces. Neural Information Processing Sytems (NIPS) 2009. [pdf]

Education

M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego, 2008

B.S. in Mathematics, and B.S. in Computer Science, University of Denver, 1999

TA

CSE 20 - Discrete Mathematics

CSE 101 - Design and Analysis of Algorithms