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Ph.D (Princeton University)

• Princeton Academic Calender: http://registrar.princeton.edu/academic-calendar/
• http://www.princeton.edu/facilities/dining_services/residential_hours/
• Slides from a photography workshop by Michael Jennings: http://www.socher.org/uploads/Main/photographyLiteratureWorkshop.zip

Master (Saarland University)

Summer 2007

• Writing Masters Thesis (30CP)
• Research Assistant at Prof. Tobias Scheffer's Machine Learning Group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science. I work on botnet clustering and spam detection.
• Teaching Assistant: Convex Optimization (4+6 CP)
• Probability Theory and Statistics (9CP)
  • http://www.math.uni-sb.de/ag-kovac/
  • Dr. Kovac,also at Bristol: http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/~maxak/

Winter 2007

• Research Assistant at Prof. Tobias Scheffer's Machine Learning Group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science. I work on topic models and spam detection.
• Started Writing Masters Thesis
• Master's Seminar (12CP)
• Learning with Graphs (7CP)
  • see Manifold Learning and Dimensionality Reduction with Diffusion Maps for all results
• Kernel Methods in Machine Learning (6 CP)
  • http://www.ml.uni-saarland.de/Kernel0708.html
• Information Retrieval and Data Mining, (9CP)
  • http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/departments/d5/teaching/ws07_08/irdm/
• Introduction to Image Acquisition Methods (4CP)
  • http://www.mia.uni-saarland.de/Teaching/iam07.shtml

Summer 2007 (Internship in Princeton)

• From March to September 2007, I worked as a research assistant at Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton, NJ under the supervision of Dorin Comaniciu and Adrian Barbu. I worked in the fields of Medical Imaging and Machine Learning.
• Seminar High-Level Recognition in Computer Vision of Prof. Fei-Fei Li at Princeton University.
  • First presentation: CRF for segmentation, Kumar & Hebert ICCV 2003, Slides of my presentation: CRF_Richard_Socher.pdf
  • Second presentation: Latent Topic Models for objects, Sivic et al. ICCV 2005, Slides: RichardSocher_BoW_pLSA_LDA.pdf
• Talk: Filtering Photos from Artificially Created Graphics at the Princeton Vision Lab
• 2007 07 29: First place in the Semantic Robot Vision Challenge
  • Team website
  • Slides presented by Juan Carlos Niebles
  • some press coverage

Winter 2006

Max Planck Institute

• See Info Master Saar for general information
• Image Processing and Computer Vision (9 CP)
  • http://www.mia.uni-saarland.de/Teaching/ipcv06.shtml
• Computer Graphics (9 CP)
  • http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/Courses/ws0607/cg/index.html
  • A ray tracing system in C++
• Elements of Statistical Learning (6 CP)
  • http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/departments/d3/teaching/sl1_06_07.html
  • Summary Of Statistical Machine Learning
• Pattern and Speech Recognition (6 CP)
  • http://www.lsv.uni-saarland.de/e_speech_ws0607.htm
  • Covariance Matrix
• Seminar on Security and Privacy in Decentralized Networks (7 CP)
  • http://www.infsec.cs.uni-sb.de/teaching/WS06/sem-decentralized_w06.html
  • My topic: Fighting Fire with Fire. Michael Walfish, Hari Balakrishnan, David Karger, and Scott Shenker. Hot Nets? 05.
  • slides for my talk
  • Related comic: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/network.png
• Research Assistant at the Alpha Project
• Chinese (6 CP)
  • http://www2.szsb.uni-saarland.de/sprachkurse/kurs.asp?KursNr=SZCHW0602
• Fun: A program that creates a suffix array: Solution in Perl

Bachelor (Leipzig University)

Summer 2006

Since there is no winter break in France, I was able to also attend the sixth semester in Germany.

• Network- and Systemmanagement
  • Practical Result: Ubuntu Linux Server [German]
• Bachelor Thesis and Complete Latex Thesis Framework
• After finishing my thesis I started my Trip To Asia.

Summer 2006 (Erasmus in Montpellier)

• AI
• Computer Linguistics
  • starting point for my work on Synthia - a Parser for French written in Lisp
• Advanced Topics in Logic and Logic Programming
• Integration of Programming Languages
• TER-Project
  • A tool to find linguistically interesting patterns in large corpora

Winter 2005 (Erasmus in Montpellier)

• Formal Specifications and the B-Method
  • see http://www.b4free.com/ for more information on the free emacs plugin we used for the practical parts
• Master Seminar: Semantic Web
• Network Programming in C++
• Interpretation of Programming Languages (Evaluation des Langages Applicatifs)
  • http://www.lirmm.fr/~ducour/Cours/ELA/
  • T D1et 2 - some nice introductory lisp functions [German, French, English melange]
• Interpreter for Lisp in Lisp
• Networks and Communiation
• Intensive French Course
• Travel Around Montpellier and in France

Summer 2005

• Algorithms and Data Structures 2
• Calculability and Complexity
• Stochastic Theory
• Database Systems
• Cognitive Basics of Speech Processing
• Variation of Meaning in Natural Languages
  • Handout of my presentation: Formal Analysis of Metonymy and Metaphor [german]
• Pragmatics
• Semantics-Colloquium
• Lexicon-theory: Paradigms
• Master's degree Minor Final: HPSG-Syntax
• Master's degree Minor Final: Formal Semantics
  • Sources: Dowty, Wall & Peters:Introduction to Montague Semantics – 1981; H. Lohnstein: Formal Semantic and natural language - 1996; H. Schnelle: Richard Montague's Universal Grammar - 1972

Winter 2004

• Numerical Analysis
• Algorithms and Data Structures 1
• Automaton und Formal Languages
• Operating Systems
• Practical Course : Hardware
• Semantics of Natural Languages
• Formal Semantics in Natural Languages
• Formal Semantics: Meaning and Grammar
• Morphology
• Phonology
• Prosody
• Kant's Philosophy
• French Language Course
• I gave one lecture about the 'Correlation between Plato, TV and www' in the lecture series Computer Science and Society. - Poster [German] Slides [German]
• I was a teaching assistant for the Logics for Linguists course from PD Dölling.
• During the semester break, I worked at Siemens Business Services, Paderborn Germany. There, I developped an application to monitor efficiency in Application Management Systems.

Summer 2004

• Calculus
• Logic
• Programming and Programming Languages
• Basics of Computer Engineering 2
• Practical Course : Software-Engineering
• Practical Course : Java-Programming
  • see especially the Java files in CS Projects
• Minimal Syntax Theories of Natural Languages

Winter 2003

• Linear Algebra / Analytic Geometry
• Software Engineering
• Set- and Algebraic Theory
• Digital Information Processing
• Basics of Computer Engineering 1
• Syntax Theories of Natural Languages
  • See notes about Grundlegende Begriffe Der Syntaxtheorie [German]