Brief Professional Biosketch

Sam Roweis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. His research interests are in machine learning, data mining, and statistical signal processing. Roweis did his undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto in the Engineering Science program and earned his doctoral degree in 1999 from the California Institute of Technology working with John Hopfield. He did a postdoc with Geoff Hinton and Zoubin Ghahramani at the Gatsby Unit in London, and was a visiting faculty member at MIT in 2005. He has also worked at several industrial research labs including Google, Bell Labs, Whizbang! Labs and Microsoft. He is the holder of a Canada Research Chair in Statistical Machine Learning, a Sloan Research Fellowship, the winner of a Premier's Research Excellence Award, and a Scholar of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Academic History

University of Toronto (currently)

Associate Professor,
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (on leave from Toronto Jan-Sept. 2005)

Visiting Scientist,
Computer Science & AI Laboratory (CSAIL).

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (before Toronto)

Bogue Research Fellow,
Seung Lab, Dept. Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT.

Gatsby Unit (before MIT)

Senior Research Fellow,
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL.
with a brief stint on leave to MIT as above

Caltech (before Gatsby)

PhD, California Institute of Technology (1999),
Computation and Neural Systems (CNS) option.
Advisor: Prof. John J. Hopfield
(whose group is now at Princeton University).
Thesis (1999): Articulatory Speech Recognition
for which I was conferred a degree at Caltech's 105'th commencement,
which I regrettably did not attend.

Princeton (while at Caltech)

Princeton at Caltech? Yes.
John Hopfield moved from Caltech to Princeton in 1997.
I joined him there for the last 18 months of my PhD,
finishing up some research, setting up the lab, and writing.

University of Toronto, Engineering Science (before Caltech)

I did my undergraduate degree in the (excellent)
Engineering Science Program at the University of Toronto.

University of Toronto Schools (before UofT)

Before I went to UofT as an undergrad, I went to a (fantastic) high school called UTS, also in Toronto.

Sam Roweis, Machine Learning Group, Toronto Computer Science, www.cs.toronto.edu/~roweis