I'm a M.Sc. candidate affiliated with the Machine Learning Group in the Department of Computer Science , at the University of Toronto.
My supervisor is Sam Roweis.
Email: scottl /at/ cs (dot) toronto (dot) edu
Snail Mail:
Scott Leishman
University of Toronto
Department of Computer Science
10 King's College Rd.,
Toronto, ON
M5S 3G4, CANADA
Available by request for now
Born to two very loving parents in Glasgow, Scotland during the late
summer of 1979.
Immigrated to Canada with baby sister in tow 3 years
later.
Raised as a soccer playing rapscallion in the friendly
confines of south-western Ontario.
Completed undergraduate degree at 2 of the 3 sprawling University of
Toronto campuses.
Received an Honours Bachelor of Science, with a specialist in Software
Engineering and a minor in the Philosophy of Science.
Completed a 16 month PEY internship at the then named Sema Group in
the outskirts of Toronto.
Travelled half-way around the world to Japan and South Korea with good
friends / former room-mates / co-conspirators.
Spent an awesome 4 month research period coming up with an unrefined
version of this.
Moved to la belle province (Montreal, QC).
Re-united with old working buddies and spent almost 2 years at the
newly named airwide solutions.
Met and fell in love with an amazing gal named
Jas.
Backpacked through a good chunk of
Western
Europe.
Moved back to the smoggy climes of Toronto.