Mohammad Norouzi

PhD student since Sep 2010
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Supervisor: David Fleet

Research interests:

• Machine Learning
• Computer Vision
• Probabilistic Graphical Models
• Statistical image modeling
• Algorithms and Optimization

Curriculum Vitae

Fast Search in Hamming Space with Multi-Index Hashing,
Mohammad Norouzi, Ali Punjani, David Fleet,
IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2012. [pdf]

Minimal Loss Hashing for Compact Binary Codes,
Mohammad Norouzi, David Fleet,
International Conference in Machine Learning (ICML), 2011. [pdf] [code] [slides:ppt]

Stacks of Convolutional Restricted Boltzmann Machines for Shift-Invariant Feature Learning,
Mohammad Norouzi, Mani Ranjbar, Greg Mori,
IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2009. [pdf]
(Extended version) Master's thesis at Simon Fraser University, 2009. [pdf][slides:ppt]

• SFU Graduate Fellowship, 2009
• Silver medal (5th place) in Central European Olympiad in Informatics (CEOI 2003), Munster, Germany
• I was supposed to be a member of Iranian team in International Olympiad in Informatics, IOI 2003, but our team could not participate!
• Gold and silver medal in Iranian National Olympiad in Informatics, 2003 and 2002

So far at UofT I took

• Bayesian Methods for Machine Learning (A+)
• Advanced Machine Learning (A+)
• Foundations of Computer Vision (A+)
• Convex Optimization (A)

At SFU I took the following graduate courses

• Machine Learning (A+)
• Special Topics in Computer Vision (A+)
• Algorithms (A+)
• Databases and Data Mining (A+)
• Natural Language Processing (A)
• Special Topics in Autonomous Robots (A-)
• Also audited Bayesian Statistics from stats and Syntax from linguistics