Table of Contents
- Ph.D (Princeton University)
- Master (Saarland University)
- Summer 2007
- Winter 2007
- Summer 2007 (Internship in Princeton)
- Winter 2006
- Bachelor (Leipzig University)
- Summer 2006
- Summer 2006 (Erasmus in Montpellier)
- Winter 2005 (Erasmus in Montpellier)
- Summer 2005
- Winter 2004
- Summer 2004
- Winter 2003
- Master (Saarland University)
- Summer 2007
- Winter 2007
- Summer 2007 (Internship in Princeton)
- Winter 2006
- Bachelor (Leipzig University)
- Summer 2006
- Summer 2006 (Erasmus in Montpellier)
- Winter 2005 (Erasmus in Montpellier)
- Summer 2005
- Winter 2004
- Summer 2004
- Winter 2003
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)
- Information Retrieval and Data Mining, (9CP)
- Introduction to Image Acquisition Methods (4CP)
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
- See Info Master Saar for general information
- Image Processing and Computer Vision (9 CP)
- Computer Graphics (9 CP)
- Elements of Statistical Learning (6 CP)
- Pattern and Speech Recognition (6 CP)
- 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)
- 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
- 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]
