Lawrence Saul

Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
UC San Diego

Office
EBU-3B 3214

Mailing address
UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
Mail Code 0404
La Jolla, CA 92093-0404

Brief Bio

I am a faculty member in the Artificial Intelligence Group at UC San Diego. I received my A.B. in Physics from Harvard and my Ph.D. in Physics from M.I.T. After further stints at M.I.T., AT&T Labs, and U Penn, I returned to southern California (where I was born and raised) to join the faculty of UCSD. I served previously as the Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Machine Learning Research.

Teaching

In fall 2018 I am teaching two sections of CSE 250a. In winter 2019 I am the instructor of record for CSE 259.

Publications

Complete list here. Some recent applications:

PETS-16 On the (in)effectiveness of mosaicing and blurring as tools for document redaction.
IMC-15Who is .com? Learning to parse WHOIS records.
KDD-14 Knock it off: profiling the online storefronts of counterfeit merchandise.
TIST-11 Learning to detect malicious URLs.

Some representative samples of older work:

JMLR-09Distance metric learning for large margin nearest neighbor classification.
ICML-04 Learning a kernel matrix for nonlinear dimensionality reduction.
SCI-00 Nonlinear dimensionality reduction by locally linear embedding.
MLJ-99 An introduction to variational methods in graphical models.